Long before California Rep. Adam Schiff learned how to mug for television cameras like a pro, he enlisted the help of a William Morris agent to shop around a script he'd penned about the Holocaust. His agent, alas, claimed to find little traction for a project deemed "too depressing" by Hollywood studios. "Then Schindler's List came out," Schiff groused, "and I was, like, 'Come on!'" Dang that Spielberg, right? Hollywood, though, isn't for quitters. And Schiff, a nine-term congressman, has already finished a murder mystery and developing a third script, as well. "It's a spy drama," he says. "That one is a work in progress." In the meantime, Schiff has found other outlets for his boundless creativity. As chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, for instance, his imaginative works have helped eradicate any residual trust the public might still have in federal institutions. It's a series. It was Schiff, in the midst of the most frenzied days of the Russian collusion nonsense, when swathes of the public were convinced that proof of President Trump's treasonous relationship with Vladimir Putin was about to drop, who claimed to have incontrovertible evidence of "collusion." By this time, the top Democrat on the intelligence committee had become something of a cable news star, exhibiting Herculean stamina while spitting out hyperbolic talking points about the demise of democracy. By one Republican estimate, Schiff had appeared in 123 national television interviews,...