Schiff Claims He Was ‘Unaware Of’ FBI’s Abuse of FISA System in Surveilling Trump Aide

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) talks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on Nov. 6, 2019. Susan Walsh/AP Photo

House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) claimed ignorance of how the FBI abused the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in surveilling a Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign associate, despite viewing the same documents his Republican colleagues did when they said that the FBI withheld information from the FISA court.report

“Given what you know now … are you willing to admit that you were wrong in your defense of the FBI’s FISA process?” Schiff was asked on “Fox News Sunday.”