Adam Schiff met with Fusion GPS founder last July

  It is now being reported that the new head of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, met with Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson last July. Here is more:

the issue of some photographs taken at the prestigious Aspen security conference last July.

They show Schiff meeting at the event with Fusion GPS Founder Glenn Simpson, one of the key and most controversial figures in the Russia collusion scandal. Both men insisted to me through spokesmen that they met only briefly last July.

At the time of the encounter, Simpson was an important witness in the House Intelligence Committee probe who had given sworn testimony about alleged, but still unproven, collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.

When confronted with the Aspen conference photos of Schiff, in sport coat and open-neck dress shirt, and Simpson, wearing casual attire, representatives for both men tried to minimize their discussion, insisting nothing substantive about the Russia case was discussed.

  In other words move along, nothing to see here. But there is a little problem with this defense and that is that Adam Schiff was vocal and pivotal in getting Devin Nunes to recuse himself for a time from the Russia investigation for undisclosed meetings and so it would seem to me that if Adam Schiff is not a hypocrite he will have to recuse himself from the investigation until it is shown he did nothing wrong. I will not be holding my breath…

malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium