{"id":4368,"date":"2025-08-26T17:13:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T17:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=4368"},"modified":"2025-08-26T17:13:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T17:13:35","slug":"schiff-could-face-fines-prison-time-if-classified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=4368","title":{"rendered":"Schiff Could Face Fines, Prison Time if Classified"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Whistleblower Claims Against Schiff<\/strong><br>A Democrat whistleblower alleges that Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) authorized leaks of classified intelligence to damage former President Trump during his time on the House Intelligence Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The whistleblower said Schiff declared in a staff meeting, \u201cthe group would leak classified information which was derogatory to President of the United States Donald J. Trump\u201d and that the leaks \u201cwould be used to indict President Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Legal Risks<\/strong><br>Former U.S. Attorney Brett Tolman warned that if prosecutors act, Schiff could face severe consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe fine is up to $250,000 for every leak that\u2019s charged,\u201d Tolman said, adding penalties could reach \u201cup to 20 years in federal prison\u201d if the intent was to undermine the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FBI Inaction<\/strong><br>The whistleblower claims FBI leadership, including Director Christopher Wray, ignored repeated reports from 2017 to 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Critics argue this reflects a pattern of shielding politically connected figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Schiff\u2019s Response<\/strong><br>Schiff has not publicly addressed the new allegations, though he has previously denied leaking classified information and called such claims partisan attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whistleblower Claims Against SchiffA Democrat whistleblower alleges that Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) authorized leaks of classified intelligence to damage former President Trump during his time on the House Intelligence Committee. The whistleblower said Schiff declared in a staff meeting, \u201cthe group would leak classified information which was derogatory to President of the United States Donald&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4370,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368\/revisions\/4370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}