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MEMORANDUM
November 12, 2019
To: Republican Members of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,
Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Committee on Foreign Affairs
From: Republican Staff of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Committee
on Oversight and Reform, and Committee on Foreign Affairs
Subject: Key points of evidence from the Democrats' closed-door impeachment inquiry
On September 24, 2019, Speaker Pelosi unilaterally announced that the House of
Representatives would initiate an inquiry into impeaching President Donald J. Trump concerning
the President's telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on July
25.1 Democrats allege that President Trump 'jeopardized U.S. national security by pressuring
Ukraine to initiate politically-motivated investigations that could interfere in U.S. domestic
politics.' The evidence, however, does not support this allegation.
In the 49 days since Speaker Pelosi's announcement, Rep. Adam Schiff, Chairman of the
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, has been leading this inquiry from his Capitol
basement bunker. The fact-finding is all unclassified, so the closed-door process is purely for
information control. This arrangement has allowed Chairman Schiff-who has already publicly
fabricated evidence and misled Americans about his interactions with the anonymous
whistleblower 3-to selectively leak cherry-picked information to help paint misleading public
narratives while, at the same time, placing a gag order on Republican Members present.
Speaker Pelosi promised the impeachment inquiry would treat the President with
fairness.4 Chairman Schiff has broken this promise. In the course of the inquiry to date,
Chairman Schiff has denied fundamental fairness and minority rights. He directed witnesses
called by the Democrats not to answer Republican questions. He withheld deposition transcripts
'Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Pelosi Remarks Announcing impeachment Inquiry (Sept. 24, 2019).
2 H, Rpt. 116-266, I 16th Cong. 2-3 (2019).
Whistleblower Disclosure: Hearing ofthe H. Perm. Set. Comm. on IntelligenceI 16th Cong. (2019) (statement
of Rep. Adam Schiff, Chairman); Glenn Kessler, Schiff's false claim his committee had not spoken to the
whistleblower, WAsH. PosT, Oct. 4, 2019 (awarding Chairman Schiff four Pinnochios for clearly mak[ing] a
statement that was false).
' Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Transcript of Pelosi Weekly Press Conference Today (Oct. 2, 2019).
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