House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff apparently doesn't see things that way.
Many of the calls Mr. Schiff chose to publicize fell into the special-circumstances categories: a fellow member of Congress, two lawyers and a journalist.
More alarming, the released call records involve figures who have sometimes criticized or clashed with Mr. Schiff.
Contrary to Mr. Schiff's defense that he was simply serving the investigative interest of Congress, the release of the phone records served much more to punish people whose work Mr. Schiff found antagonistic than to fulfill an oversight purpose.
Mr. Schiff published call records between Mr. Giuliani and me and suggested they involved my Ukraine stories.
Mr. Schiff's team has tried to minimize the conduct because he never subpoenaed my phone records directly but extracted them from others' call records.
Mr. Schiff appears to assume that Congress enjoys unlimited investigative powers under the Constitution's Speech or Debate clause.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/schiff-threatens-press-freedom-11575937690?mod=hp_opin_pos_3
Many of the calls Mr. Schiff chose to publicize fell into the special-circumstances categories: a fellow member of Congress, two lawyers and a journalist.
More alarming, the released call records involve figures who have sometimes criticized or clashed with Mr. Schiff.
Contrary to Mr. Schiff's defense that he was simply serving the investigative interest of Congress, the release of the phone records served much more to punish people whose work Mr. Schiff found antagonistic than to fulfill an oversight purpose.
Mr. Schiff published call records between Mr. Giuliani and me and suggested they involved my Ukraine stories.
Mr. Schiff's team has tried to minimize the conduct because he never subpoenaed my phone records directly but extracted them from others' call records.
Mr. Schiff appears to assume that Congress enjoys unlimited investigative powers under the Constitution's Speech or Debate clause.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/schiff-threatens-press-freedom-11575937690?mod=hp_opin_pos_3
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