Schiff Honed Impeachment Skills at Trial of FBI Agent Turned Spy

President Donald Trump has likened the House impeachment inquiry led by Rep. Adam Schiff to a “kangaroo court,” while his Republican colleagues have accused him of lying and waging a witch hunt.

But Schiff’s former Justice Department colleagues see an older version of the measured federal prosecutor who won a high-profile Soviet spy conviction almost 30 years ago.

The skills that Schiff (D-Calif.) honed during a six-year law-enforcement career that culminated in the 1990 espionage trial of fired FBI agent Richard Miller prepared him for his current role, according to former colleagues and supervisors worked with him in the U.S. ...