Posted on 05/24/2017 3:51:58 PM PDT by Cementjungle
Washington (CNN)Attorney General Jeff Sessions did not disclose meetings he had last year with Russian officials when he applied for his security clearance, the Justice Department told CNN Wednesday.
Sessions, who met with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak at least two times last year, didn't note those interactions on the form, which requires him to list "any contact" he or his family had with a "foreign government" or its "representatives" over the past seven years, officials said.
Sessions initially listed a year's worth of meetings with foreign officials on the security clearance form, according to Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores. But she says he and his staff were then told by an FBI employee who assisted in filling out the form, known as the SF-86, that he didn't need to list dozens of meetings with foreign ambassadors that happened in his capacity as a senator.
The FBI declined to comment for this story.
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When you starve the beast, the beast resorts to fiction and sensationalizing nonissues.
Bless their hearts. No one fed them any talking points.
Old news, cement, and irrelevant.
Since when is it a crime to meet with an ambassador? What the @#$% is going on?
Congress is a criminal enterprise.
Democrat or Republican are distributors of the nations treasury.
As such, they have no interest in representing the American people.
They only care about themselves.
How is press getting copies of Sessions’ security clearance file?
Sessions is the person the Dems fear the most and the one they would like to remove at all costs. Not going to work.
He then amended his Senate Judiciary Committee testimony to note the two reported interactions he had with Kislyak. In the amended testimony, the former Alabama senator said he spoke “briefly” in July 2016 to the Russian ambassador during the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. He also said that he spoke with the Russian ambassador in September 2016 in his Senate office with his staff members. He said he did not initially list those meetings because he did not think they were relevant to the questions asked during the confirmation proceedings.
He added: “I do not recall any discussions with the Russian ambassador or any other representative of the Russian government, regarding the political campaign on these occasions or any other occasion.”
What's the guy doing over there at DOJ...playing parcheesi with the maid service?
The Obamas and Clinton's have been running roughshod over the U.S. Constitution, and the only special counsel we get is appointed to investigate a nothing-burger.
The Justice Department told CNN? This is a good time to track down just who told CNN that and fire his ass.
The article says that someone at the FBI advised Sessions that he didn’t need to report meetings attended with foreign ambassadors while in the capacity of a Senator. I wonder how well the rest of them are tracking their foreign contacts. McCain? McCain? Buehler?
I spoke with a Russian in April and I didn’t disclose it to anyone, either.
Sessions isn’t screwed - although someone did leak his paperwork which is a crime. When you fill out the forms, you mention contacts to some degree so those who investigate/adjudicate the clearance data know to take a peek in that direction. For higher clearances, there is always an interview with an investigator to cover any questions that they may have - unless he claimed zero contact and lied to an investigator, there is nothing wrong/odd about it.
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