Adam Schiff Quotes
The most important thing to me is that the president Donald Trump fired the FBI director James Comey all because of the Russia investigation. That first justification given, again, the White House misleading the country about a major action the administration was taking, but the fact that they had a private conversation in which the president, by his own admission, was discussing the future of Director Comey in that job, and the president brings up whether he is under investigation, highly unethical, at a minimum, unethical.
Schiff, Adam. Interview by George Stephanopoulos. This Week, ABC, 14 May 2017.
Nixon had lied to Ford as well as the American people. Ford, having been selected by Nixon as VP, felt it was his obligation to defend Nixon until he was about to become President himself. At that point he would have destroyed his presidential credibility on top of Nixon if he kept on with the Nixon lies.
The George W. Bush administration had sought to discredit and punish a vocal critic whose wife was a covert CIA operative. Despite a law that prohibited it, the Presidential and Vice Presidential Aides leaked this information to the press. A special prosecutor had investigated and found that the Vice President’s Chief of Staff had covered up the plot and obstructed justice and lied to investigators and Libby was convicted by a Jury. However, at the time, the degree of involvement of the President, the Vice President and other key administration officials was unknown and many people such as Trump agreed with several of the trial jury members that Libby was taking the fall and protecting the administration.
The Russian leadership thought little of it and assumed that it had no consequences. An American Communist official in the Kremlin, Morris Childs, told them that Nixon might actually lose his job over Watergate. Childs was actually an FBI spy. See his quote.
On special measures to ensure secrecy of plans to bomb Libya.
Adam Bennett Schiff is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff is in his eleventh term, having served since 2001.
