David Harsanyi of National Review Online highlights one California congressman’s penchant for prevarication.

Adam Schiff’s numerous fabrications have gone largely unchallenged by a fawning political media, even though the congressman has been a frequent guest on every network but Fox News since 2016. Schiff most famously claimed that Congress had not only uncovered a criminal conspiracy by the president’s 2016 campaign but also that he himself was in personal possession of a “smoking gun.” …

… [O]n The View, guest host Morgan Ortagus, confronted Schiff about revelations that the Steele Dossier had been a partisan deception meant to undermine the Republican candidate. Schiff took no responsibility for his role in spreading its contents, for destroying public trust in the electoral system, for perpetuating a conspiracy theory, or for feeding a pliant media distortions and fabrications. “It’s one thing to say allegations should be investigated,” Schiff responded. He continued:
“It’s another to say we should have foreseen in advance that some people were lying to Christopher Steele which would have been impossible.” …

… Why couldn’t Schiff have foreseen the consequences of treating Christopher Steele’s work as legitimate? He knew that the dossier was an oppo-research document paid for by the Clinton campaign and the DNC. Schiff tried to suppress information that undercut collusion accusations. … And when, after years of delay, Schiff was forced to release transcripts of interviews conducted by House Intelligence Committee into Russia meddling, we learned that the director of National Intelligence, former Obama attorney general, former deputy attorney general, and the FBI deputy director, among others, all told his committee that there was no direct evidence of criminal conspiracy. Schiff knew, and yet he continued to profess that the central assertion of the dossier — that the Trump campaign had colluded with the Russian government during the 2016 campaign — was not only possible but a fact. He did so on numerous occasions and with great certitude. Every time he did, it was a lie.