{"id":991433,"date":"2021-11-09T19:59:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T00:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=991433"},"modified":"2021-11-09T19:59:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T00:59:37","slug":"morgan-ortagus-grills-schiff-over-steele-dossier-you-spread-disinformation-yourself-for-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/morgan-ortagus-grills-schiff-over-steele-dossier-you-spread-disinformation-yourself-for-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Ortagus Grills Schiff Over Steele Dossier: You \u2018Spread Disinformation Yourself For Years\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmorgan-ortagus-grills-schiff-over-steele-dossier-you-spread-disinformation-yourself-for-years%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=991433&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus grilled Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) during Tuesday\u2019s episode of \u201cThe View\u201d on ABC over Schiff\u2019s past promotion of the now widely discredited Steele Dossier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve been really prolific over the past few years being the head of the Intel Committee and you defended, promoted, you even read into the Congressional Record the Steele Dossier,\u201d Ortagus said. \u201cAnd we know last week, the main source of the dossier was indicted by the FBI for lying about most of the key claims in that dossier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you have any reflections on your role in promoting this to the American people?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n<p>Schiff immediately deflected by attacking former President Donald Trump, despite not being asked about Trump, and by continuing to promote conspiracy theories related to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut you\u2019ve made false, spread disinformation yourself for years by promoting this,\u201d Ortagus said. \u201cI think that\u2019s what Republicans and what people who entrusted you as the Intel Committee chair are so confused about your culpability in all this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schiff refused to accept the premise of Ortagus\u2019 question and claimed that it was \u201cimpossible\u201d to \u201chave foreseen in advance that some people were lying to Christopher Steele\u201d about political gossip.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNone of that is undercut, none of that serious misconduct is in any way diminished by the fact that people lied to Christopher Steele,\u201d Schiff continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I think just your credibility is,\u201d Ortagus said.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Adam Schiff defended his promotion of the STEELE DOSSIER by citing concerns about KONSTANTIN KILIMNIK, which are \u2026 not referenced (or even alluded to) anywhere in the dossier. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dyfh6cJbmp\">pic.twitter.com\/dyfh6cJbmp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kenvogel\/status\/1458215337145602051?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 9, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TRANSCRIPT:<\/p>\n<p><em>MORGAN ORTAGUS: So I want to ask you about something that\u2019s in the news a lot right now. You\u2019ve been really prolific over the past few years being the head of the Intel Committee and you defended, promoted, you even read into the Congressional Record the Steele Dossier. And we know last week, the main source of the dossier was indicted by the FBI for lying about most of the key claims in that dossier. Do you have any reflections on your role in promoting this to the American people?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>REP. ADAM SCHIFF (D-CA): Well, first of all, whoever lied to the FBI or lied to Christopher Steele should be prosecuted. And they are. And unlike in the Trump administration, if they\u2019re convicted, they should go to jail, not be pardoned. So Donald Trump pardoned Roger Stone for<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus grilled Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) during Tuesday\u2019s episode of \u201cThe View\u201d on ABC over Schiff\u2019s past promotion of the now widely discredited Steele Dossier.\u201cYou\u2019ve been really prolific over the past few years being the head of the Intel Committee and you defended, promoted, you even read into the Congressional Record the Steele Dossier,\u201d Ortagus said. \u201cAnd we know last week, the main source of the dossier was indicted by the FBI for lying about most of the key claims in that dossier.\u201d\u201cDo you have any reflections on your role in promoting this to the American people?\u201d she asked.Schiff immediately deflected by attacking former President Donald Trump, despite not being asked about Trump, and by continuing to promote conspiracy theories related to Russia.\u201cBut you\u2019ve made false, spread disinformation yourself for years by promoting this,\u201d Ortagus said. \u201cI think that\u2019s what Republicans and what people who entrusted you as the Intel Committee chair are so confused about your culpability in all this.\u201dSchiff refused to accept the premise of Ortagus\u2019 question and claimed that it was \u201cimpossible\u201d to \u201chave foreseen in advance that some people were lying to Christopher Steele\u201d about political gossip.\u201cNone of that is undercut, none of that serious misconduct is in any way diminished by the fact that people lied to Christopher Steele,\u201d Schiff continued.\u201cNo, I think just your credibility is,\u201d Ortagus said.WATCH:Adam Schiff defended his promotion of the STEELE DOSSIER by citing concerns about KONSTANTIN KILIMNIK, which are \u2026 not referenced (or even alluded to) anywhere in the dossier. pic.twitter.com\/dyfh6cJbmp\u2014 Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) November 9, 2021TRANSCRIPT:MORGAN ORTAGUS: So I want to ask you about something that\u2019s in the news a lot right now. You\u2019ve been really prolific over the past few years being the head of the Intel Committee and you defended, promoted, you even read into the Congressional Record the Steele Dossier. And we know last week, the main source of the dossier was indicted by the FBI for lying about most of the key claims in that dossier. Do you have any reflections on your role in promoting this to the American people?REP. ADAM SCHIFF (D-CA): Well, first of all, whoever lied to the FBI or lied to Christopher Steele should be prosecuted. And they are. And unlike in the Trump administration, if they\u2019re convicted, they should go to jail, not be pardoned. So Donald Trump pardoned Roger Stone for lying, he pardon Michael Flynn for lying. If people like the FBI, they should go to jail. But at the beginning Russian investigation, I said that any allegations should be investigated. We couldn\u2019t have known, for example, people were lying to Christopher Steele, so it was proper to investigate them. And let\u2019s not forget what we learned in that investigation. We learned that the Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was giving internal polling data, campaign polling data, to Russian intelligence, while Russian intelligence was helping the Trump campaign.ORTAGUS: And to be clear he was fired halfway through the campaign.SCHIFF: Well, he may have been fired.ORTAGUS: Yeah\u2013SCHIFF: \u2013but the effort to get Russian help continued and even beyond the effort to get Russian help, the president also sought to get\u2013ORTAGUS: \u2013but you\u2019ve false, spread disinformation yourself for years by promoting this. I think that\u2019s what Republicans and what people who entrusted you as the Intel Committee chair are so confused about your culpability in all this.SCHIFF: Well, I completely disagree with your premise. It\u2019s one thing to say allegations should be investigated, and they were. It\u2019s another to say that we should have foreseen in advance that some people were lying to Christopher Steele, which is impossible, of course to do. But let\u2019s not use that as a smokescreen to somehow shield Donald Trump\u2019s culpability for inviting Russia to help him in the election, which they did, for trying to coerce Ukraine into helping him in the next election, which he did, into inciting an erection, insurrection, which he did. None of that is undercut, none of that serious misconduct is in any way diminished by the fact that people lied to Christopher Steele.ORTAGUS: No, I think just your credibility is.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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