Posted on 03/01/2017 7:36:32 PM PST by blam
Just when you thought the 'Russians-did-it' meme was fading, WaPo reporters manage to find DoJ officials who say then-Senator Jeff Sessions spoke twice last year with Russia’s ambassador to the United States - encounters he did not disclose when asked about possible contacts with Moscow during his confirmation hearing to become attorney general.
At his Jan. 10 Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing, Sessions was asked by Sen. Al Franken, a Minnesota Democrat, what he would do if he learned of any evidence that anyone affiliated with the Trump campaign communicated with the Russian government in the course of the 2016 campaign.
“I’m not aware of any of those activities,” he responded.
He added: “I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and I did not have communications with the Russians.”
And now, as The Hill reports that according to The Washington Post report, President Trump's attorney general, Jeff Sessions, spoke twice with Russia's ambassador to the United States while Trump was on the campaign trail.
Justice Department officials said one of the meetings was a private conversation between Sessions and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in Sessions's office. The private meeting reportedly took place during the same time intelligence officials have said Russia was interfering with the U.S. presidential election through a hacking campaign.
Officials said Sessions did not consider the conversations relevant to the lawmakers’ questions and did not remember in detail what he discussed with Kislyak.
“There was absolutely nothing misleading about his answer,” said Sarah Isgur Flores, Sessions’s spokeswoman.
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Afraid I did! I know I asked if the smoked salmon was fresh one time.
Who knew!
“Zero Hedge has a real vendetta with the Trump administration.”
Zero hedge is basically a Russian propaganda site.
Doesn't seem quite as compelling as setting up a government spook program to funnel firearms to drug cartels and then lying/stonewalling about the matter after people are killed as a result, does it? I guess some AGs are more equal than others.
Mr. niteowl77
Stupid...
Pretty soon they will just fabricate their own evidence...Dan Rather...
Well it’s time to counter-punch by calling a special prosecutor to investigate the Clinton Foundation. We need the offensive RIGHT NOW.
Because that was not the context of the question he was asked. He was asked about people who are a part of the Trump campaign meeting with the Russians, not the generic, did you ever have a meeting with the Russians for any reason. His meeting with the Russians was due to his work in the Senate. He did very little work with the Trump campaign at all and certainly no meetings with Russians about Trump's campaign -- just senate business.
The other “meeting” Sessions had with the Russian ambassador was a diplomatic event where Sessions talked with numerous foreign diplomats including the Russian. This is stretching things a bit.
BINGO
They are getting very scared. That speech last night let them know, Trump is not going anywhere.
Agreed.
I just saw some of the latest headlines, tomorrow, we are probably going to hear more this malarkey. Little prayer for the fine and esteemed Jeff Sessions against this modern day witch hunt.
“Its just amazing how the “no blood for oil” Left, without the slightest shame or sense of hypocrisy, are now the biggest fear-mongers and war-mongers against Russia - a nuclear power no less.”
Not to mention that the left spent 100 years minimizing the threat that Russian dictators posed to the West.
But now Russia is the biggest menace ever !
Sounds like some people are BEGGING for boiled rope.
Oops, did I say VP ticket?
Too early in the morning. But anyway, it was all before Sessions was in the campaign.
I guess I’ll be charged as a subversive along with you.
I’m of Russian ancestry and I’ve spoken to my fellow Russian relatives lately.
I guess I can expect an investigation.
They really need to get Sessions on something because Sessions WILL expose the whole corrupt enchilada before all is said and done.
Liberals’ walnut-sized brains will be exploding in unison over this garbage non-news tomorrow.
Did I hear someone say they were tired of winning.....???
What’s scary is that Dems are way too invested in Russian-gate. They have zero plausible motive and zero evidence, but they keep on. They also have media and Hollywood lackeys invested and ready to strike.
So invested, seems like the Trump Administration should be watching for them to release manufactured evidence at the right time.
What’s scary is that Dems are way too invested in Russian-gate. They have zero plausible motive and zero evidence, but they keep on. They also have media and Hollywood lackeys invested and ready to strike.
So invested, seems like the Trump Administration should be watching for them to release manufactured evidence at the right time.
It won’t be the dems. It will the John McCain and the CIA releasing it.
Islyak: Vich Vay iss lavatory, Tovarisch Sessions?
Sessions: Down the hall to your right on far side of corridor.
Islyak: Spasiba.
Second meeting: Alvays I gets lost in crazy Senate offices. Vich vay iss lavatory again?
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