'I am appalled at some of the smearing of some of the professional people that work in the intelligence committee,' Rep. Schiff said. 'I will not dignify those smears on my staff by giving them any credence whatsoever.'
Earlier Thursday, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky tried to ask a question that Chief Justice John Roberts refused to read because it included the name of a person who has been identified in right-wing media as the whistleblower.
"I want to be very clear about something. Members of this body used to care about the protection of whistleblower identities. They didn't use to gratuitously attack members of committee staff. But now they do," Schiff said."I think that's disgraceful."Jay Sekulow, one of Trump's personal lawyers who is on the defense team, in response slammed Schiff for not answering the question.
"We can’t just say it's not a relevant inquiry to know who on the staff that conducted the primary investigation here was in communication with the whistleblower," Sekulow said, noting that Schiff had initially expressed interest in havingSchiff has said he changed course on that after the president released a call summary of his conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy because that rendered the testimony irrelevant.
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