It looks like this isn't just Liberal Media.... The fact that it's being pushed by Wohl and Burkman doesn't lend much credibility, but we'll see what the FBI comes up with... I wouldn't call RedState Left Wing and neither would Media Bias/Fact Check
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About the Adam Schiff and Ed Buck Photo Rumor
From the Article - Late Monday, Burkman posted a tweet saying they were waiting for RedState to publish "uncensored photos."
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While we all wait for Red State, who enjoys better 1A legal protections than us, to publish the uncensored photos (as they did in the Katie Hill matter) here are are some previews.
I had planned to ignore the tweets, but after seeing that tweet I direct messaged Burkman, gave him my phone number, and asked him to call me so I could ask him what he was talking about. (I had never met or corresponded with Burkman or Wohl before that time.) A short while later, Burkman and Jacob Wohl called, as they documented in this tweet Tuesday night.
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Adam Schiff is in big, big trouble
He's about to join Katie Hill in the congressional trash-heap pic.twitter.com/XwJ0T5eQ99
Jack Burkman (@Jack_Burkman) January 22, 2020
I explained to them that neither myself nor any of our writers had received such a photo, so I was confused about these tweets. When I asked what the photo depicted, I was told that it showed Schiff sprawled on a ratty couch in Ed Buck's West Hollywood drug den/torture chamber, with Ed Buck nearby, and with a skinny younger black man who was wearing only a thong. I was told that all three of the men looked like they were on drugs, and that what looked like drug paraphernalia was on a table in the photo. The photo was allegedly part of the evidence seized from Buck's apartment during an FBI raid (Buck is
currently in federal custody awaiting trial on charges he provided methamphetamine leading to the death of Gemmel Moore). I was told how the photo had come into the possession of the unnamed "senior House Republican" (an explanation Burkman has published on Twitter as well).
Hearing this, I replied that if such photos were sent to us we would have to have them digitally analyzed and I'd have to be able to independently verify with my law enforcement sources in the Buck investigation that the photo was legit. Then there would be internal discussions about if and when we would publish it. If we as an editorial team decided to promote a story in advance of publication, that promotion would occur on the site and on our official social media accounts.
In my mind, the issue was finished at that time since no one at the site had such photos and, clearly, we couldn't publish what we didn't have. I haven't been in communication with Wohl or Burkman since that time.
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