Former CIA analyst Fred Fleitz said Wednesday that news reports that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff knew details of a whistleblower’s complaint before they were formally filed “confirmed” his analysis last week that Schiff colluded with the individual in the “latest Democratic ploy to take down” President Donald Trump.

“Schiff knew about the CIA whistleblower in advance — way in advance,” Fleitz, who also worked at the Defense Intelligence Agency and the State Department, said in the first of eight Twitter posts. “Before he even filed his complaint.

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“This is a much bigger scandal that people realize,” Fleitz continued. “At a minimum, Schiff should recuse himself from this impeachment inquiry.”

In a similar eight-tweet thread last Wednesday, Fleitz said that his analysis of the redacted compliant released by the House Intelligence Committee “suggested the author had a lot of help.

“Did this whistleblower first meet with House Intelligence Committee members?” Fleitz asked.

He reiterated his hypothesis Thursday in an op-ed in the New York Post and Friday in a Newsmax TV interview.

“Clearly, this whistleblower had some help,” Fleitz told “Newsmax Now” host John Bachman.

Fleitz’s recent thread came after The New York Times reported that Schiff, D-Calif., learned of some of the whistleblower’s concerns about President Trump’s July telephone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy “days before” the actual complaint was filed.

According to the Times, the whistleblower initially approached the top lawyer at the CIA before speaking with a House Intelligence Committee staffer, who then advised the individual to get a lawyer and meet with the intelligence community’s inspector general.

The committee staffer then shared the information with Schiff, without identifying the whistleblower, according to the Times.

Fleitz is president and CEO of the Center for Security Policy. He also served on the House Intelligence staff and as chief of staff and executive secretary of the National Security Council in the Trump administration.

(Excerpt from Newsmax. Article by Todd Beamon.)