Nunes accuses Schiff of secret coordination with Glen Simpson

[dukkha]

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) lashed out at Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Friday for meeting with Glenn Simpson, the co-founder of Fusion GPS, an opposition research firm that has become embroiled in the ongoing national debate about Russian efforts to intervene in the 2016 presidential election.

In an interview with Hill.TV's Buck Sexton, Nunes, the ranking Republican on Intelligence who served as the panel's chairman in the last Congress, denounced the Simpson-Schiff encounter as "very troubling," adding that the Fusion GPS executive "is at the center of our investigation" due to his connections with figures who have been involved in government investigations.

Nunes said these figures include Kremlin-connected attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya and Christopher Steele, the author of a report which claimed that future president Donald Trump was substantially compromised by the Russian government.

Simpson has testified before both House and Senate intelligence committees. During his appearance before the House body, he mostly invoked his Fifth Amendment rights not to answer questions.

"What was talked about the meeting? Glenn Simpson is a central figure in all of this. He is the man behind the dossier," Nunes said.

The California Republican added that he wanted to bring Simpson back before the House intelligence panel. Now that Democrats control the committee, however, it is unclear when that may happen.

The Simpson-Schiff encounter, which took place at a security conference in July of last year, was disclosed in an opinion piece by Hill.TV's John Solomon on Thursday.

Simpson's company as well as Schiff have said that the meeting was not pre-planned, that they did not discuss anything of substance, and that the two men have not been in contact since.

Speaking to Sexton, Nunes accused Schiff of having met with Simpson on earlier occasions.

"The fact that they're coordinating doesn't really surprise me because Glenn Simpson is a Democratic operative working for the Democratic Party," Nunes said.

"So the fact that he's meeting with Democrats on Capitol Hill is not a surprise. That's his business. That's what he does. There just is a little bit of surprise that people haven't taken it serious that this guy needs to be investigated. And clearly they weren't, if they were meeting and having conversations in 2018. My guess is that they were having conversations before that."
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/42...ting-with-anti

[dukkha]

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 the summer of 2018, Mr. Simpson attended a media-sponsored social event where he exchanged small talk with Rep. Schiff and many other people who were in attendance,” Fusion GPS said in a statement to me. “The conversation between the two was brief and did not cover anything substantive. There has been no subsequent contact between Mr. Simpson and Rep. Schiff.”

The congressman’s response was even more vague: “The chairman did not have any pre-planned meeting with Glenn Simpson, and any conversation with him at the Aspen conference would have been brief and social in nature,” Schiff spokesman Patrick Boland said.

Translation: This was just a Forrest Gump-like moment in which the Democrats’ chief defender of the dossier and the man whose firm produced it met serendipitously.

There is nothing illegal or technically improper about a congressman meeting, intentionally or unintentionally, with a witness in an investigation. At least not under the law or the House Intelligence Committee’s rules.

But Schiff created a far higher standard two years ago when he demanded that his Republican counterpart on the committee, then-Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), be investigated for having meetings with national security council officials at the Trump White House without telling the committee. Schiff’s attacks led Nunes to temporarily recuse himself from the Russia probe.
both GOP and Democratic officials on the committee, including some lawmakers, said there is no evidence that Schiff disclosed his contact with Simpson to committee members.
Expect Republicans in Washington to launch some questions at the House’s new Intelligence Committee chairman
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/42...unter-in-aspen

[Nordberg]

Nunes was a pipeline to the Whitehouse giving them classified and personal info on house investigations,. He is a smarmy, lying shit who should never have been in office.

[dukkha]

Nunes was a pipeline to the Whitehouse giving them classified and personal info on house investigations,. He is a smarmy, lying shit who should never have been in office.

Nunes was cleared by House ethics after self-recusal.

Why didn't Schiff notify the Committee of his meeting with Glen Simpson (Fusion GPS) -
central figure in the Steele Dossier saga? Simpson has testified before Congress

[Darth Omar]

Nunes was cleared by House ethics after self-recusal.

Why didn't Schiff notify the Committee of his meeting with Glen Simpson (Fusion GPS) -
central figure in the Steele Dossier saga? Simpson has testified before Congress

Clearly, Shifty Schiff needs to recuse.

But democrats or anyone on the Mullet/Resistance side of the equation never, ever, recuse.

[Centerleftfl]

NUNES, NUNES??

[MAGA MAN]

Deep State will always deep state.

[Darth Omar]

Deep State will always deep state.

Schiff pulled out the ‘tarmac’ excuse lol.

What’s ‘deep’ is the irony: they’ve been searching for collusion for almost three years when there are gobs of it right under their noses.

The collusion was a coordinated attempt to prevent the election of Donald Trump; and failing that, sabotaging his presidency if he got elected.

And it’s so obvious you can literally state it as fact.

[MAGA MAN]

Schiff pulled out the ‘tarmac’ excuse lol.

What’s ‘deep’ is the irony: they’ve been searching for collusion for almost three years when there are gobs of it right under their noses.

The collusion was a coordinated attempt to prevent the election of Donald Trump; and failing that, sabotaging his presidency if he got elected.

And it’s so obvious you can literally state it as fact.

It will be great when Mueller shines light on all this.

[Darth Omar]

It will be great when Mueller shines light on all this.

Right lol.

In theory, he could. But there’s absolutely no outward indications of it.

[Tranquillus in Exile]

Nunes ... denounced the Simpson-Schiff encounter as "very troubling"

Did Schiff go by Uber?

[MAGA MAN]

Right lol.

In theory, he could. But there’s absolutely no outward indications of it.

Why be honest and expose massive corruption when you can get lauded by mindless liberals?

[canceled.2021.3]

Schiff should recuse himself from any Russia investigation

Was he sucking Simpsons cock in Aspen?

Schiff looks like a cock gobbler

[Darth Omar]

Why be honest and expose massive corruption when you can get lauded by mindless liberals?

I think Mullet is walking a tightrope.

Even if he covets the praise of mindless liberals he has to be careful about sticking Trump with a process crime or similarly weak indictment because the blowback from it could generate sufficient political will for another SP appointment.

Which could encroach on his own investigation—and certainly the origin of it.

[Centerleftfl]

Deep State will always deep state.

Stupid will always be STUPID. Paranoid will always be PARANOID.