{"id":7314,"date":"2025-10-17T18:36:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=7314"},"modified":"2025-10-17T18:36:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:36:22","slug":"schiff-could-face-fines-prison-time-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=7314","title":{"rendered":"Schiff Could Face Fines, Prison Time if"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>&nbsp;Whistleblower Allegations Target Sen. Adam Schiff<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>New Claims Surface<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) faces new scrutiny after a whistleblower alleged he leaked classified intelligence during<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the Trump\u2013Russia investigation, according to declassified FBI interview reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Inside the Intelligence Committee<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The whistleblower, a former Democratic staffer,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>claims Schiff authorized leaks \u201cto damage then-President Donald Trump politically.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They say internal objections were ignored, and they were dismissed after contacting the FBI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FBI Response Questioned<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The individual alleges reporting the conduct to the FBI multiple times from 2017 to 2023,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>but \u201cno formal investigation or disciplinary action followed,\u201d prompting criticism of the bureau\u2019s handling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Potential Legal Fallout<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former U.S. Attorney Brett Tolman warned that if proven,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cpenalties for leaking classified material can include substantial fines and possible prison time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Schiff has not yet commented, but previously called similar claims \u201cpolitically motivated.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Whistleblower Allegations Target Sen. Adam Schiff New Claims Surface Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) faces new scrutiny after a whistleblower alleged he leaked classified intelligence during the Trump\u2013Russia investigation, according to declassified FBI interview reports. Inside the Intelligence Committee The whistleblower, a former Democratic staffer, claims Schiff authorized leaks \u201cto damage then-President Donald Trump politically.\u201d They&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7315,"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-7314","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\/7314","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=7314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7316,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7314\/revisions\/7316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}