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WP: Sessions Met with Russia Twice Last Year, Didn't Disclose During Confirmation

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Then-Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) spoke twice last year with Russia’s ambassador to the United States, Justice Department officials said, encounters he did not disclose when asked about possible contacts between members of President Trump’s campaign and representatives of Moscow during Sessions’s confirmation hearing to become attorney general.

One of the meetings was a private conversation between Sessions and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak that took place in September in the senator’s office, at the height of what U.S. intelligence officials say was a Russian cyber campaign to upend the U.S. presidential race.

The previously undisclosed discussions could fuel new congressional calls for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate Russia’s alleged role in the 2016 presidential election. As attorney general, Sessions oversees the Justice Department and the FBI, which have been leading investigations into Russian meddling and any links to Trump’s associates. He has so far resisted calls to recuse himself.

When Sessions spoke with Kislyak in July and September, the senator was a senior member of the influential Armed Services Committee as well as one of Trump’s top foreign policy advisers. Sessions played a prominent role supporting Trump on the stump after formally joining the campaign in February 2016.
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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.”
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Then-Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) spoke twice last year with Russia’s ambassador to the United States, Justice Department officials said, encounters he did not disclose when asked about possible contacts between members of President Trump’s campaign and representatives of Moscow during Sessions’s confirmation hearing to become attorney general.

One of the meetings was a private conversation between Sessions and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak that took place in September in the senator’s office, at the height of what U.S. intelligence officials say was a Russian cyber campaign to upend the U.S. presidential race.
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http://wapo.st/2lu7BFH

Another falls?
 
Before people spin this:

He lied during the confirmation hearings by saying he was not aware of any communication.
 
oh thats nice

did you know that if you mix a little superglue and baking soda you can create a very hard rock like substance? great for repairs!
 
How bad is lying during a hearing? I'm getting giddy at the thought of this racist fuckboi getting kicked out.

EDIT: Nevermind this looks like a nothingburger, he wasn't acting as part of Trump's transition team. It is kinda fishy how they're all meeting Kislyak though,
 
The dominoes keep falling.

It's going to be amazing to see how hard the GOP try to protect their own from conspiring with Russians to affect an election. Treasonous sons of bitches.
 
The previously undisclosed discussions could fuel new congressional calls for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate Russia's alleged role in the 2016 presidential election.
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I mean, could?

How far does this have to go
 
Sessions’s public position on Russia has evolved over time.

In an interview with RealClear World on the sidelines of the German Marshall Fund’s Brussels Forum in March 2015, Sessions said the United States and Europe “have to unify” against Russia.

More than a year later, he spoke about fostering a stronger relationship with the Kremlin. In a July 2016 interview with CNN’s “State of the Union,” Sessions praised Trump’s plan to build better relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Golly! It's almost like he's been compromised or something!
 
Ac30 said:
How bad is lying during a hearing? I'm getting giddy at the thought of this racist fuckboi getting kicked out.

EDIT: wew of course
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I think there is no mechanisim at all there?

Normally when things were more normal the person in question would resign to not taint the president and rest of the cabinet but we are through the looking glass now.
 
Gentleman Jack said:
Golly! It's almost like he's been compromised or something!
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If the GOP can blow up Benghazi and the emails as much as they did, the Democrats can sure as hell blow this up to hell and back. They need to be making as much noise as possible. Never shutting up about it.
 
Isn't this the same mother fucking racist piece of shit that bragged about knowing the Podesta leaks before they happened?
 
Common Knowledge said:
If the GOP can blow up Benghazi and the emails as much as they did, the Democrats can sure as hell blow this up to hell and back. They need to be making as much noise as possible. Never shutting up about it.
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People say this a lot, but it would kinda require a time machine and Democrats who voted in non-presidential elections right?

Like, we gave the GOP the keys to the castle years ago and we keep acting like it just happened a few months ago.
 
Sessions and Page are closely linked together, which is the main Russian connection. Looks like the IC needs to get rid of Sessions after Flynn, can't have a legit investigation with a compromised AG.

I wondered why the Sessions info was withheld, then I realized it's easier to get rid of an AG than a senator.
 
Sessions is a Charter member in Trump University's chapter of Kappa-Kappa-Kappa. Trump, Bannon, Miller and the rest of the low-rent Legion of Doom will go to the mat for him. Congress will turn a blind-eye and we will have collectively lost a little of what makes the USA tick.
 
He spoke with the ambassador at the Capitol and then denied having any communications during his hearing?

Pretty brazen.
 
Wow he straight up lied during the hearings, and it can be corroborated. I wonder if Trump on down didnt believe anybody would look this deeply into their relationship with Russia? Well, they probably didnt even think they would win, so maybe they tried to roll with it hoping they could slip right in.
 
Sure is smokey tonight.

Though it's possible the conversations were entirely innocuous, that he 1) Didn't bother to disclose them when asked about communication with Russia and 2) none of his counterparts on the ASC had talked with the ambassador in recent months... certainly doesn't look good.

The Washington Post contacted all 26 members of the 2016 Senate Armed Services Committee to see if any lawmakers besides Sessions met with Kislyak in 2016. Of the 19 lawmakers who responded, every senator, including chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.), said they did not meet with the Russian ambassador last year. The other lawmakers on the panel did not respond as of Wednesday evening
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lmao this russian dude was wiretapped out his ass and all these trump appointments were chatting him up

hook, line, and sinker
 
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