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WP: Sessions Met with Russia Twice Last Year, Didn't Disclose During Confirmation
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NullPointer
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Steeped in a Sea of Games
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I think part of it is Franken isn't a showboat. He does good things and doesn't go around screaming about how great it is he did it. I'm still thankful that he won despite how close it was. Guy won by only 312 votes with nearly 3 million cast total. Imagine if he didn't make it in.
BlastProcessing
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Nah, Conway is a Mercer lackey and Mercer is connected to Cambridge Analitica which is connected to Russia.
He was under oath.
Abstrusity
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He's in line of succession before Ben Carson, so if he ends up being passed over for it, with a pretty big reason(read: Russian involvement), then shit will get bad, quickly. That would mean that Mattis may have been compromised while a General, which would then mean a not-insignificant number of our officers are also likely compromised. I highly doubt Mattis would be involved, but then, I also highly doubted Mattis would be as gungho about Iran as he is, to the point of almost ordering a forced boarding upon an Iranian ship in international waters.
Like, now that we're talking about Senators and Executive staff being compromised by Russia, how deep does the rabbit hole go?
But yeah, as a response to that, SecDef is higher in the line of succession than SecHUD, so Ben Carson wouldn't end up as President because of this stuff unless MAttis was also compromised.
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thepotatoman
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Where'd you get that idea?
Video of him taking the oath:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?42093...ons-testifies-confirmation-hearing&start=2555
And his statement about Russia:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?420932-7/attorney-general-confirmation-hearing-day-1-part-4&start=220
I like how Sessions looks around like Mr. Magoo after he makes that statement.
StopMakingSense
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Man, Trump's tweets about this are gonna be something special.
poppedcollar69
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i kinda want someone to do a remix of the bill nye theme except with jeb.
Jeb! Jeb! Jeb! Jeb! Jeb Bush the _______ guy.
Somebody needs to call Nunez out for this nothing to see here BS and then to turn around and say it's been known for years that Russia does these things. That's nothing but putting his party over his country.
Saint Gregory
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All jokes aside the very fact that he thought it was better to commit perjury in front of congress than disclose these meetings is the most damning evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia that we have so far.
The cover up is always what gets these guys, not the actual crime.
CrispyBoar
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Let me know when something's actually being done about people like him in this administration.
echoshifting
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Flynn got the boot already. Maybe you didn't get the memo
Remember Mike Flynn by any chance?
Mr.Shrugglesã
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It's because the ramifications are worse from the perpetrators than the ones you're betraying.
A Serious Man
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People are saying illegal immigrants are leaking this fake news!
More_Badass
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All caps, fake news, illegal leaks
Probably a "democrat conspiracy" in there too
Pretty sure he was under oath.
Jorok Goldblade
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His replacement has already been sworn in, so no.
echoshifting
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Where do people keep getting this? Social media? He was under oath.
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BlastProcessing
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He's going to double down on the Obama blaming I bet.
Nunes is going to obstruct as much as he can. He was part of the Trump transition team. Even if he is innocent in this case he faces guilt by association. If he had half a brain he would be getting the paperwork in order and building as much of a gap between him and Trump.
That is basically the Fox News talking points on Russia. Democrats claim Election hacked. No evidence any votes were hacked. Completely ignore the actual accusations
That is basically the Fox News talking points on Russia. Democrats claim Election hacked. No evidence any votes were hacked. Completely ignore the actual accusations
CrispyBoar
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I know. But the same needs to be done with the rest of these people.
Not another month, not another week, not another day, immediately.
BlastProcessing
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He also lied in signed testimony so yeah, the dude lied to Congress.
https://twitter.com/RepKarenBass/status/837133480005931008
@RepKarenBass
Sessions's written response during his testimony says it all. Full recusal and an independent investigation are both mandatory.
At some point he will have to shift from obstructing to covering his own ass. Once there is too much heat, he will jump out of the way to save his own skin.
Chittagong
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It is so fascinating to see if there is ever a point where GOP says "enough".
https://twitter.com/benjaminwittes/status/837128608003026946
Guy from Brookings, so maybe full of shit, but he says that to be perjury: it not merely has to be false, it to be clearly and unambiguously false--and there is enough ambiguity...
*edit, yeah, especially with that signed testimony, looks like he was NOT unambiguous. So that dude's full of it.
Good - Sessions in jail would be 2nd tier GOAT (first tier GOAT would be Trump in jail)
Bam Bam Baklava
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You want a fucking ice cream shake with your order sir? Jesus christ, you're not at a burger king, this is already faster than any government investigation I've heard or read about.
He was under oath, the bar for perjury is high BUT read the rest of the thread.
Where does it even come from? None of the accusations had anything to do with hacking the damn vote. It was about influencing the election in other ways.
Like, it's not something I ever hear democrats say. It's not something that gets talked about on CNN or even MSNBC. Where is it coming from?
But Flynn is one of those people and something was done about him. Other people have withdrawn or left his campaign early on. This just broke hours ago.
He said he didn't meet with Russian officials. He did. There's no ambiguity.
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thepotatoman
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Yeah I don't get where this is coming from either.
It's not like you have to retake the oath after a bathroom break, right?
Probably will throw Obama in there
Just googled perjury in front of Congress and it doesn't matter if you're under oath or not. The penalty is the same either way. So shouldn't Sessions be arrested right about now?
http://www.cnbc.com/amp/2016/07/07/what-happens-if-you-lie-to-congress.html
http://www.cnbc.com/amp/2016/07/07/what-happens-if-you-lie-to-congress.html
Mr.Shrugglesã
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lol, Good one.
superdeluxe
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Mattis has always been anti Iran, this isn't new.
Where are you getting that he was compromised as a General? Years ago?
A Serious Man
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Given the amount of projection their camp is prone too, they were probably running a child sex ring out of a pizza shop.
Chittagong
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He also lied in signed testimony so yeah, the dude lied to Congress.
https://twitter.com/RepKarenBass/status/837133480005931008
@RepKarenBass
Sessionss written response during his testimony says it all. Full recusal and an independent investigation are both mandatory.
At some point he will have to shift from obstructing to covering his own ass. Once there is too much heat, he will jump out of the way to save his own skin.
"about the election" is all the get out of jail card he will need.
gutter_trash
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remember when Bill Clinton lied about a Monica Lewinksi?
superdeluxe
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That's not how it works.
First, oral testimony had no such qualifier. Second, the DOJ released a statement saying they did speak about the election.
Didn't the DoJ say it was about the election?
He said "I did not have communications with the Russians." No qualifier.
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