Mike Pompeo Accuses Adam Schiff of Leaking Classified Info

Former Trump administration official Mike Pompeo accused Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA). Leakage classified information.

After Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R–CA), the new allegation was made blocked Schiff’s appointment To remain on the House Intelligence Committee where he was chairman for the past four years.

“During my time as CIA director and secretary of state, I know that he leaked classified information that had been provided to him,” Pompeo stated on Fox News on Wednesday.

Pompeo didn’t give any details, but he said that the problem was serious enough to limit what he shared his views with Congress.

It is important to emphasize how serious this charge is. “Outnumbered” co-host Emily Compagno pressed Pompeo on why there hasn’t been accountability if such leaks would be “a felony at minimum, up to treason.”

“It’s a complicated process, right? It’s difficult to pin down precisely what happened,” Pompeo. “But I could tell you that when we provided information to him and to his staff, it ended up in places it shouldn’t have been with alarming regularity. We could see it. In the end, I decided, I held back information from them as a result.”

MIKE POMPEO “The fact that…Schiff was the Chairman of the…Intelligence Committee almost ruined that committee…Schiff should be nowhere near serving on the Intelligence Committee. I don’t think he should be seeing classified information.” pic.twitter.com/3A0iwMc3Dq

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) January 25, 2023

The Daily Wire reached out to Schiff’s office for comment on Pompeo’s claims.

Schiff denied leaking classified information The past. “I haven’t. My staff hasn’t,” He told CNN in 2020 that he had previously offered the caveat. “I can’t speak for what all the members of the committee have done or not done, including a lot of the Republican members.”

Pompeo isn’t the first intelligence leader in the Trump administration to accuse Schiff of leaking classified information. Richard Grenell, the former acting Director for National Intelligence, claimed that Schiff and his team had leaked classified information in January 2021. “regularly” leaked Classified information

Senator Tom Cotton (R.-AR) suggested that conservative commentator Lisa Boothe, April 2021, use Schiff could be a source for dubious reports Russia offers bounties for Afghan militants to murder U.S. troops. Patrick Boland, Schiff’s spokesperson, replied with a quick response. the Washington Examiner It was at that time “Yet another false and baseless claim by Tom Cotton — you would think he would know better by now.”

McCarthy and Eric Swalwell (D-CA) were kicked out of the House Intelligence Committee by McCarthy on Tuesday. McCarthy had accused Schiff of being a repeat lying liar in the past, especially when it came to investigations into former President Donald Trump. Pompeo also called Schiff an liar during his Fox News interview, and praised McCarthy’s removal from the panel.

Hakeem Jeffries, a Democratic Minority Leader from New York (D-NY), nominated Schiff for the committee this weekend. He called him “eminently qualified.” After he was blocked, Schiff responded by claiming McCarthy’s move was “petty, political payback for investigating Donald Trump.”

On Tuesday, Schiff also spoke about his feelings. too “paranoid” To bring any classified information to his home while serving on the House Intelligence Committee. “This is what’s so astounding, I think, for all of us on the Intelligence Committee. I never take classified documents to my house,” Schiff told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell, who asked if he had taken any records home. “I don’t know any reason why people would,” Schiff was added.

As the conversation took place, it was revealed that a dozen classified documents were involved. found at former Vice President Mike Pence’s home Indiana and handed over to the FBI. Two separate special counsels were already appointed by the Justice Department to investigate President Donald Trump’s handling of classified material stored in their homes and offices.