Wannabe authoritarian Adam Schiff should sit on no committees
Zachary Faria
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While House Republicans continue to broadcast their incompetence to the country, other promises may end up being forgotten. Some should not, including the promise to bar Rep. Adam Schiff from House committees.
Schiff, the California Democrat who served as the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, may be the most destructive member of the House. While the bigotry of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rep. Eric Swalwell’s (D-CA) association with a Chinese spy have drawn the most ridicule, it is Schiff’s tenure as the appointed intelligence master of the Democratic Party that raises the most concerns.
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Most recently, journalist Matt Taibbi revealed that Schiff demanded Twitter censor and remove several of the site’s users, including banning accounts, deleting tweets, suppressing search results, and reducing the visibility of tweets. The demands were so drastic that censor-happy Twitter balked at all of them, even Schiff’s demands to take action against the “harassment” of his staff.
Schiff used his position as a congressman and the chairman of the Intelligence Committee (and the implicit threat of government action that comes with it) to demand that Twitter censor people. That is how Schiff views the role of government.
Schiff had already made it clear that he was unfit to hold any role in any committee relating to intelligence. He fabricated claims about “direct evidence” that former President Donald Trump colluded with Russia before the 2016 election, even as he knew that there was no such evidence in closed-door hearings. Now that it is clear he wants to use the weight of the government to censor people, it is resoundingly clear that he should sit on no committees at all. His transgressions are far worse than Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) posting a dumb YouTube video.
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Schiff belongs nowhere near any level of government power, but Republicans have no control over that. The only thing they can do is limit his involvement in the House, thanks to the precedent that Democrats set during their time in the majority, and keep him off of all committees. It is the most that they can do, and there is no question that Schiff’s own behavior calls for it.