Adam Schiff confronted by Republicans on House intel panel: 'No faith in your ability'

Republicans on Thursday directly confronted House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam B. Schiff for his two years of conspiracy charges against President Trump, urging him to resign because they “have no faith in your ability to discharge your duties.”

Mr. Schiff, California Democrat, defended his scores of media appearances leveling collusion charges, listing supposed inappropriate contacts. But he didn’t list any instance of Trump people coordinating in Russian election interference, as he did at a hearing on March 20, 2017.

Rep. Devin Nunes of California, the previous chairman and now ranking Republican, and other GOP members signed a letter to Mr. Schiff, who has reopened a Russia probe.

The letter cited the decision by special counsel Robert Mueller to end his investigation without finding that Trump associates conspired with Russia to interfere in the 2016 election by computer hacking or social media broadsides against Mr. Trump’s political rival Hillary Clinton.

Under Mr. Nunes, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence’s Republican majority also cleared the Trump campaign.

The Republican letter said, “Your actions both past and present are incompatible with your duty as Chairman of this Committee, which alone in the House of Representatives has the obligation and authority to provide effective oversight of the U.S. intelligence community. As such, we have no faith in your ability to discharge your duties in a manner consistent with your Constitutional responsibility and urge your immediate resignation as Chairman of this Committee.”