Adam Schiff spent years pushing the Russia collusion hoax and swore he had no idea where it came from.
A declassified FBI file says he knew exactly where it was going — and what Hillary Clinton promised him if it worked.
What that file says about the deal Schiff made is something he has spent eight years hoping you would never read.
The Declassified FBI Whistleblower File That Names Schiff in a Classified Leak Scheme
A career intelligence officer, who is a Democrat, with 12 years on the House Intelligence Committee and more than two decades in the community sat down with FBI agents in December 2017 and told them what he had watched happen from inside.
Adam Schiff was "particularly upset" after Trump's 2016 win, the staffer told investigators, because Schiff had believed he would be appointed CIA director under Hillary Clinton.
What the whistleblower told the FBI next qualifies as a felony.
In a June 2023 follow-up interview, the same staffer described being summoned to an all-staff meeting run by Schiff — and watching Schiff tell the group they would leak classified information derogatory to President Trump, and that the information "would be used to indict President Trump."
When the staffer objected, others in the room told him they "would not be caught."
He called the plan "unethical and treasonous” and reported it to the FBI.
Then he was fired.
FBI Director Kash Patel declassified the 302 interview documents in August 2025 and sent them to Congress with a statement: "We found it. We declassified it. Now Congress can see how classified info was leaked to shape political narratives — and decide if our institutions were weaponized against the American people."
The ARCTIC HAZE Investigation That the Biden DOJ Buried
On August 14, 2017, the FBI's Washington Field Office opened a classified media-leak investigation — code-named ARCTIC HAZE — into unauthorized disclosures in eight news articles published between April and June 2017.
Those articles contained information classified at the highest levels.
The whistleblower's account pointed directly at Schiff's operation as the source.
Biden’s Justice Department was briefed and declined to pursue charges — citing the Speech or Debate clause as cover.
The whistleblower told investigators he did not believe that protection applied to what Schiff had done.
Constitutional Law Professor Jonathan Turley laid out the stakes in plain terms: "What is clear is that someone is lying and someone is a felon. Either Schiff ordered the commission of a serious felony or this whistleblower made repeated false statements to the FBI."
There is no third option.
The whistleblower made these statements across multiple FBI interviews spanning six years — beginning in 2017 and running through June 2023.
Lying to federal investigators across six years of interviews is itself a federal crime.
Schiff Defends James Comey on Live TV While Sitting Under His Own FBI Investigation
Two days after the FBI document resurfaced and went viral, Schiff appeared on Meet the Press to call the James Comey indictment a "vindictive prosecution."
"I never saw such a weak case," Schiff told host Kristen Welker.
Schiff did not mention the Maryland grand jury investigating him for mortgage fraud.
Or that the FBI document published days earlier names him in a criminal leak conspiracy targeting a sitting president.
Comey ran the FBI during the same period classified information was allegedly flowing out of Schiff's committee operation and into the press.
Comey and Schiff were not colleagues who happened to share an ecosystem — they were operators inside the same machine, the one ARCTIC HAZE was opened to expose.
Schiff going on national television to defend Comey is a man protecting the network that kept him safe for eight years.
Every staffer in that all-staff meeting is now a potential witness — and every one of them faces criminal liability if they lie to federal investigators about what they heard.
Turley put it plainly: someone in that room is a felon.
Kash Patel just made sure Congress — and the country — finally gets to read the file.
Sources:
- Josh Christenson, "Adam Schiff approved intel leaks to smear Trump, thought he'd be CIA chief," New York Post, August 12, 2025.
- Andrew Kerr, "Schiff leak allegations demand heightened DOJ scrutiny, experts say," Washington Examiner, August 14, 2025.
- Rebecca Kaplan, "Schiff says DOJ prosecuting James Comey because Todd Blanche 'wants to keep this job,'" The Hill, May 4, 2026.
- Blaze Media Staff, "Dem whistleblower went to FBI about Schiff's alleged 'treasonous' role in Russia hoax — but DOJ ignored him," Blaze Media, August 12, 2025.
- NBC News, Meet the Press transcript, May 3, 2026.
