April 6, 2017
Honorable
Susan W. Brooks
Chairwoman
Committee on Ethics
U.S. House of Representatives
1015 Longworth House Office Building (LHOB)
Washington, D
.
C
.
20515
Fax: 202
-
225
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7392
Re:
Ethics
Complaint against
Rep.
Adam Schiff
Honorable
Chairwoman Brooks
:
On behalf of Freedom Watch, I hereby file this complaint against Congressman Adam Schiff,
Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee
, and request an investigation of these
facts and
cir stances by the
Committee, with appropriate and strong remedies to follow.
The U.S. House of Representatives "Code of Ethics for Government Service" 72 Stat., Part 2
B12 (1958), H. Con. Res. 175, 85th Congress, requires that:
Any person in Government service should
1
Pu
t loyalty to the highest moral princip
l
e
s and to country above loyalty to
Government persons, party, or department.
2
Uphold the Cons ution, laws and legal regulations of the United States
and of all governments therein and never be a party to their evasi
on.
***
10
Uphold these principles, ever conscious that public office is a public trust.
It
is now clear that
as Ranking Member of the
House Intelligence Committee
, Schiff
has been
fully
aware of
and sought to cover
up
widespread crimes, mul udes of felonies, of
warrantless
surveillance of U.S. citizens within the domestic United States for partisan political purposes and
partisan advantage, invasion of privacy, and illegal disclosure of
classified information. These
multiple felonies have occurred under the pre
sidential administrations of both Barack Hussein
Obama and before him George W. Bush in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001.
Ethics Complaint of Rep. Adam Schiff
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2
I
nstead of fulfilling his duties to uphold the law, report violations of law, protect and defend the
U.S. Cons ution,
protect the civil liberties and cons utional rights of U.S. citizens and the
integrity of the U.S. Government with regard to illegal surveillance intimidation of U.S. officials,
Ranking Member Ad
am Schiff is actively furthering
these violations of the l
aw and seeking to
obstruct justice by covering them up, also committing the crime of misprison of
many felonies
.
In short,
Ranking Member Schiff is actively committing obstruction of justice. Note that that is
not just within the processes inside Congres
s. Schiff is actively seeking to conceal evidence of
crimes that require criminal prosecution by federal prosecutors external to the Congress. Schiff's
misconduct does not only affect how the Congress or the Committee does its business.
Schiff's
efforts
are
to interfere with actual prosecution of real crimes in federal court and before a federal
grand jury.
S
chiff seeks to
silence the Chairman and squelch any legitimate investigation.
As General Counsel of Freedom Watch, and previously the Founder of J
udicial Watch, and a
former federal prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice, I pe ioned
the House Intelligence
Committee that it
must question
Director
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
James
Comey
about apparent illegal and
un
cons utional surv
eillance of prominent Americans, such as the
C
hief
J
ustice of the Supreme Court, other justices, 156 judges, and prominent businessmen and
others such as Donald J. Trump
(later President)
.
I explained my efforts to have the Committee
question FBI Director
Comey about what
was
supposed to be an on
going investigation of
materials and testimony provided by whistleblower Dennis Montgomery, a former NSA and CIA
contractor
.
While the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes, is belatedly
and slo
wly
taking partial action to investigate and expose widespread abuses by some members
of the intelligence community, Ranking Member Schiff has then attacked and sought to obstruct
the mod
est efforts of Chairman Nunes to silence exposure of these crimes.
I
personally
wrote the attached letter to the House Intelligence Committee
on March 21, 2017,
faxed
and mailed
to every member of the Committee,
alerting them to the seriousness of this
matter
. However,
I also contacted the Committee much earlier
about thi
s topic.
But as further confirmation, we are now learning the truth from
Ev
e
lyn Farkas
, who
s
erved as
D
eputy
A
ssistant
S
ecretary of
D
efense under the Obama administration
.
Of
greatest
concern
here,
Farkas
admitted
on
March
2,
2017,
in
a
television
interv
iew
on
MSNBC
that
she
was
talking
to
members
of
Congress,
of
which
the
House
Intelligence
Committee
is
the
most
relevant:
“I
was
urging
my
former
colleagues
and,
frankly
speaking,
the
people
on
the
Hill,
it
was
more
actually
aimed
at
telling
the
Hill
peop
le
,
get
as
much
information
as
you
can,
get
as
much
intelligence
as
you
can,
before
President
Obama
leaves
the
administration.”
(Emphases added.)
See:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/29/former
-
obama
-
official
-
discloses
-
rush
-
to
-
get
-
intelligence
-
on
-
trump
-
team.html
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Therefore, according to Farkas,
in the middle of 2016,
she personally alerted "
people on the
Hill
"
abou
t intelligence information
, while she was still an Obama administration official.
Clearly, that must have been Ranking Member Adam Schiff
--
the same partisan political party
(Democrat) as Farkas and President Obama whom she then served.
The person on th
e Hill that
Democrat
D
eputy
A
ssistant
S
ecretary of
D
efense under the
Democrat
Obama administration
would contact is clearly Democrat Ranking Member Adam Schiff.
Furthermore
,
o
n October 26, 2016, Farkas made
remarks
as a panelist at the annual Warsaw
Secur
ity Forum urging Americ
ans to vote for Hillary Clinton
, saying
during the 2016
presidential election campaign:
"
I am not afraid to be political. I am not hiding who I am rooting for.
"
See:
http://warsawsecurityforum.org/wp
-
content/uploads/2016/09/AGENDA_WSF2016
-
1.pdf
.
Farkas further revealed her intentions by saying:
"
And
actually,
if
Donald
Trump
were
elected
I
believe
he
would
be
impeached
pretty
qui
ckly
or
somebody
else
would
have
to
take
over
government.
And
I
am
not
even
joking."
Meanwhile, sources in the intelligence community are now
confirming that Susan Rice
, then
National Security Advisor for President Barack Obama,
orchestrated systematic "1
984" style
political surveillance of Donald Trump, his campaign staff, and his transition staff
, then
headquartered in Trump Towers while the Obamas still occupied the White House
.
See:
Eli Lake, "
Top Obama Adviser Sought Names of Trump Associates in In
tel
,"
Bloomberg
,
April
3, 2017, accessible at:
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017
-
04
-
03/top
-
obama
-
adviser
-
sought
-
names
-
o
f
-
trump
-
associates
-
in
-
intel
.
Evelyn Farkas tells us that these efforts mostly involved "people on the Hill." This Committee,
dedicated to upholding ethics, needs to investigate the involvement of the Democrat Ranking
Member of the House Intelligence C
ommittee in this Democrat Party hacking of the Republican
candidate's campaign.
Susan Rice
further
admitted that:
Ms. Rice said she had sometimes asked for the names of Americans
whose iden ies were redacted in her daily intelligence briefings in
order
to understand the context of what she was being told.
Peter B
a
ker, "
Susan Rice, Ex
-
Obama Adviser, Is Back in Political Cross Hairs Over
Surveillance
,"
New York Times
, April 4, 2017, available at:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/us/politics/susan
-
rice
-
obama
-
trump
-
leak.html
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In other words, the Obama administration routinely and promiscuously cir vented the
Foreign
Intelligence Security Act
by using the int
elligence community to
“
wiretap
”
and eavesdrop
and
conduct illegal surveillance
on U.S. citizens inside the United States without a warrant.
Susan
Rice
admits that she routinely violated
the safeguards for no particular reason than her curiosity.
And tha
t is
only
what she admits to.
We are now learning that
this practice
was far from
"sometimes" but systematic and routine.
As others have pointed out, the White House does not do
its own investigations. The FBI, CIA,
DIA, and NSA conduct those
investi
gations.
The National Security Advisor is a consumer of
investigative reports.
There is no excuse for Susan Rice
from the West Wing of
the White House
to be unmasking the iden y of
U.S. citizens whose conversations
have been wiretapped without
a warran
t
, violating and cir venting the purpose of the FISA cour
t.
Much as whistle
blower Dennis Montgomery warned us, Susan Rice working only steps from the
Oval Office in the West Wing systematically orchestrated surveillance aimed at
“
wiretapping
”
and condu
cting illegal surveillance on
the conversations of
political opponent
s
’
campaign
leaders, so that she could then illegally and uncons utionally unmask the conversations of
political opponents.
In other words, Barack Obama and Susan Rice
“
hacked
”
t
he 2016 presidential election.
Susan
Rice claims that she did not leak this information to media or the public. Therefore, the question
remains who did. Farkas points us to the U.S. Congress.
There is a myriad of evidence, dire
ct and cir stantial of
massive illegal and uncons utional
surveillance of U.S. citizens within the domestic United States, as disclosed to the FBI by
Montgomery.
FBI Director
Comey has been aware of these issues now for over two (2) years,
yet has taken no action to follow up
. When finally the issue is getting notice, Schiff is working
to attack anyone seek
ing to investigate these crimes, to prevent the full revelation and
prosecution of those crimes.
The crimes at issue threaten the corruption of government through threats,
intimidation, and
coercion with compromising information obtained through illegal surveillance.
Working side by
side
with
former Obama Director of National Intelligence (DIA)
James Clapper,
who lied in
Congressional testimony,
and former Obama Director
of the CIA, the equally ethically
challenged John Brennan,
whistleblower
Montgomery witnessed
and likely participated in
"up
close and personal" this "Orwellian Big Brother"
this
intrusion on privacy
(in the words of
federal Judge Richard Leon)
, likely fo
r potential coercion, blackmail or other nefarious purposes.
Unfortunately,
FBI
Director Comey has now lost the confidence of the American people and any
reasonable legal observe
r with regard to these issues.
President Donald Trump
must
immediately
replace Obama's hold
-
over U.S. Attorney for the
District of Columbia with a U.S. Attorney who will command the confidence of the American
people.
A U.S. Attorney above any question of taint must vigorously investigate and proceed
before a grand jury.
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But
with Comey apparently unwilling
to
properly
address what could be the most massive
corruption of our government in our nation's history, obstruction of justice by Adam Schiff is
intolerable. The House Intelligence Committee's honest action and supervisio
n of this issue is
essential. Schiff's covering up of crimes cannot stand.
An uncompromised and uncompromising
House Intelligence Committee is essential at this time to the legal and political health of our
nation.
Just as the controversy over Monica Le
winsky and her blue dress distracted and covered up for
widespread selling of intercontinental ballistic missile guidance technology to the People's
Republic of China in return for illegal donations to the Clinton
-
Gore re
-
election campaign,
through straw
-
m
an John Huang, Adam Schiff is now seeking to cover up for widespread
felonies
that corrupt the core of our cons utional republic.
I uncovered
the widespread sale of U.S.
national security secrets and government actions in the 1990s
as the head of
Judici
al Watch at
that time.
I explained at the time how the blue dress merely served to keep the American people
distracted from much more serious crimes.
Adam Schiff is now seeking to obstruct justice and
cover up for current crimes today.
As
further
state
d in the Committee's
"
House Ethics Manual
" under "
Jurisdiction of the
Committee on Ethics
"
--
The jurisdiction of the Committee on Ethics is derived from authority granted
under House Rules and federal statutes. The scope of the Committee’s jurisdiction
under the various authorizing rules and statutes is given below.
House Rule X, clause 1(g)
The Committee on Ethics has jurisdiction over all bills, resolutions and other
matters relating to the Code of Official Conduct adopted under House Rule
XXIII.
Ho
use Rule XI, clause 3
With respect to Members, officers, and employees of the U.S. House of
Representatives, the Committee on Ethics is authorized to undertake the following
actions:
A) Recommend administrative actions to establish or enforce standards o
f official
conduct.
B) Investigate alleged violations of the Code of Official Conduct or of any
applicable rules, laws, or regulations governing the performance of official duties
or the discharge of official responsibilities. Such investigations must be
made in
accordance with Committee rules
.
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C) Report to appropriate federal or state authorities substantial evidence of a
violation of any law applicable to the performance of official duties that may have
been disclosed in a Committee investigation. Such
reports must be approved by
the House or by an affirmative vote of two
-
thirds of the Committee.
* * *
In short, Ranking Member Schiff must be held to account legally and ethically for
his failure to carry out his oath of office and obl
igations to the A
merican people to
defend and protect the Cons ution of the United States and all of its underlying
laws.
Sincerely,
Larry Klayman
General Counsel
Freedom Watch, Inc.
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