Flynn and Sessions memory regarding meetings with Russians

NigelUno wrote:Sessions is in trouble if Republicans are flipping on him and the whole town knows the Russian ambassador is a spy.

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JUST IN: Attorney General Sessions will hold a news conference at 4 p.m EST - statement

NigelUno wrote:He will recuse himself.

The_Dude wrote:FOX News breaking news...some guy from Arkansas got a blowjob at work.

I demand an investigation.

AnomanderRake wrote:Sessions recused himself from the investigation because he didn't lie or do anything wrong.

LooseGoose wrote:

AnomanderRake wrote:Sessions recused himself from the investigation because he didn't lie or do anything wrong.

Exactly. Sorry that you don't understand that you can't be the manager of an investigation of yourself. Basic stuff 101, doesn't mean a damned thing.

LooseGoose wrote:

AnomanderRake wrote:Sessions recused himself from the investigation because he didn't lie or do anything wrong.

Exactly. Sorry that you don't understand that you can't be the manager of an investigation of yourself. Basic stuff 101, doesn't mean a damned thing.

AnomanderRake wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:

Exactly. Sorry that you don't understand that you can't be the manager of an investigation of yourself. Basic stuff 101, doesn't mean a damned thing.

I was being facetious because morons online are saying if he was guilty he wouldn't recuse himself and would bury the investigation on his own.

With that said, I do think Sessions is shady as hell and knowingly lied about his communications with the Russian Ambassador.

AnomanderRake wrote:Sessions recused himself from the investigation because he didn't lie or do anything wrong.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:countdown to someone in the sexual predator's administration blaming Obama, leaks that will be FULLY investigated.. fake news.. alternative facts.. Hillary.. Russian prostitutes who enjoy being urinated upon..

or creating a terrorist attack that the mainstream media failed to cover.

did I mention that Cheeto Hitler won in a landslide? People are saying it.

   Jeff Sessions is an honest man. He did not say anything wrong. He could have stated his response more accurately, but it was clearly not....
   — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 3, 2017

   ...intentional. This whole narrative is a way of saving face for Democrats losing an election that everyone thought they were supposed to win
   — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 3, 2017

The Democrats are overplaying their hand. They lost the election, and now they have lost their grip on reality. The real story...
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 3, 2017

   ...is all of the illegal leaks of classified and other information. It is a total "witch hunt!"
   — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 3, 2017

 

LooseGoose wrote:Sorry the truth stings you like that Bob.

The Trump administration says Attorney General Jeff Sessions was acting as a then-U.S. senator when he talked to Russia’s ambassador at an event during last year’s Republican National Convention in Cleveland, but Mr. Sessions paid for convention travel expenses out of his own political funds and he spoke about Donald Trump’s campaign at the event, according to a person at the event and campaign-finance records. Mr. Sessions made comments related to Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign at a Heritage Foundation event during the Republican convention in July, when he met with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak, according to a person at the event in Cleveland.
Mr. Sessions on Thursday said he would recuse himself from involvement in any probe related to the 2016 presidential campaign, following disclosures that he met with the Russian ambassador during the convention, and later in his Senate office in Washington.
Interactions between U.S. senators and foreign ambassadors are relatively common. But Mr. Sessions has come under fire for not disclosing his contacts with Mr. Kislyak during his Senate confirmation hearing to become attorney general. Democratic lawmakers have accused him of misleading Congress and called on him to resign.
Representatives for the White House and Mr. Sessions have defended his failure to disclose his contacts with the Russian ambassador by arguing that the exchanges occurred in his capacity as a U.S. senator, rather than as a campaign official.
Mr. Sessions denied that he misled lawmakers during his confirmation hearing, calling the allegation “totally false” and saying his answers were “honest and correct” based on his understanding of the questions. At the time Mr. Sessions met the Russian ambassador at the convention, he had been serving as chairman of Mr. Trump’s National Security Advisory Committee for more than four months. “He was literally conducting himself as a United States senator,” White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Thursday. He said Mr. Sessions didn’t discuss matters related to Mr. Trump’s campaign.
“This is what senators do in the course of conducting themselves in their jobs,” he said. A spokesman for the Russian embassy didn’t respond to a request for comment.
A U.S. counterintelligence probe of alleged communications between Russians and members of President Trump’s campaign team have looked at Mr. Sessions’ contacts, people familiar with the matter said. It’s unclear if the probe is still looking at those contacts. The investigation is overseen by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, along with several other agencies, officials have said. Counterintelligence probes seldom lead to public accusations or criminal charges.
The Senate Intelligence Committee and the FBI are looking into any possible links between the Trump campaign and Russia after the U.S. intelligence community concluded Russia was behind hacking that interfered with the 2016 campaign. Mr. Trump has denied any connection between his campaign and Russia.
Campaign-finance-disclosure records show Mr. Sessions’ re-election campaign account was used for travel expenses in Cleveland at the same time the Republican National Convention was held in July, rather than using official funds that would pay for travel by him or other members of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
On July 16, two days before the convention began, his campaign account made two payments of $1,395 to the Sheraton Cleveland Airport. A week later, the account made two payments to the Westin Hotel in Cleveland totaling $223. All payments were described as for “lodging.”
No payments reimbursing Mr. Sessions appear in Mr. Trump’s campaign account, the records show. Sarah Isgur Flores, a spokeswoman for Mr. Sessions, said she was unable to comment on his convention expenses. Larry Noble, general counsel at the Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan advocacy group, said Mr. Sessions likely used his campaign account, rather than official Senate funds, because as a senior adviser to the Trump campaign it would have been difficult to argue that he wasn’t attending the convention for any political purpose.
“If he was truly there solely as a member of the Armed Services Committee, then he could’ve used his legislative account,” Mr. Noble said.
One person at the Heritage event in Cleveland said Mr. Sessions left the impression he was there because of his role in the Trump campaign. This person said Mr. Sessions’ remarks in part were focused on Mr. Trump’s trade policy, saying the then-candidate would do away with multilateral trade deals.
Ms. Flores, Mr. Sessions’ spokeswoman, said the attorney general’s aides, who were at the Heritage Foundation event, don’t recall Mr. Sessions speaking about the election with Mr. Kislyak, though they couldn’t be sure, because the room was loud.
Staffers who were with him during a second meeting with Mr. Kislyak, which took place Sept. 8 in his Senate office, also didn’t recall any discussion of the election, she said. Mr. Sessions didn’t definitively rule out the possibility that he had additional meetings.
“I don’t recall having met him before those two meetings,” he said at a news conference Thursday. He also said he doesn’t think he met with any Russian officials besides Mr. Kislyak.
Beside Mr. Sessions, the FBI inquiry has examined contacts between the Russian ambassador and Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser Mike Flynn, who resigned in February over his failure to accurately describe his conversations. Several other associates of Mr. Trump’s campaign also have come under federal scrutiny.
Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, now a senior White House adviser, met in December with Mr. Kislyak, along with Mr. Flynn, the White House said Thursday. A senior administration official said it was “a brief courtesy meeting at Trump Tower” in New York.
Another campaign aide, J.D. Gordon, met with Mr. Kislyak during the Republican convention, a White House spokeswoman said, adding to the number of known contacts between Trump campaign associates and Russian officials. Mr. Gordon couldn’t be reached for comment on Wednesday.
Mr. Sessions was the first sitting senator to back Mr. Trump, formally endorsing the New Yorker in February 2016. Mr. Sessions went on to become one of Mr. Trump’s most high-profile surrogates, speaking for him on cable television and serving as an ambassador to Capitol Hill, where many Republicans were skittish about Mr. Trump’s candidacy. Mr. Sessions went on to deliver the formal nomination of Mr. Trump at the Republican National Convention.

NigelUno wrote:Seems kind of strange that a lot of people me with this Kislyak guy and no one seems to remember what they talked about.

LooseGoose wrote:The Russian Ambassador sat with the Democrats at Trump's speech the other night. What nefarious thing do they have going on?

At first blush, the news about U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions looked bad. At second blush, it looked worse. At third blush, I got tired of blushing and ran outside to cool my face with fresh snow. But then things started to settle. With most Russia-related stories these days, especially ones in The New York Times and The Washington Post, the best initial reaction is heavy skepticism. That way you aren’t surprised when embarrassing editorial disclaimers appear above stories that Russia hacked a Vermont utility or spread “fake news” via dozens of U.S. websites from Drudge to Truthdig, and you read past the headline of stories like “Trump Aides Had Contact With Russian Intelligence.”

On the other hand, lies are lies, and lies under oath are even bigger lies, regardless of what they’re about—Russia or height or size of fish. So the question is simple: did Sessions perjure himself, and was some sort of cover-up going on?

LooseGoose wrote:And Vanity Fair starts walking things back.....now that many are accusing the Dems of overreach.

This after the news hits that the OBAMA administration set up the "meeting" with Ambassadors at the R convention.

THE DIRTY SECRET BEHIND THE JEFF SESSIONS MESS- It may not be as sinister as it seems.

At first blush, the news about U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions looked bad. At second blush, it looked worse. At third blush, I got tired of blushing and ran outside to cool my face with fresh snow. But then things started to settle. With most Russia-related stories these days, especially ones in The New York Times and The Washington Post, the best initial reaction is heavy skepticism. That way you aren’t surprised when embarrassing editorial disclaimers appear above stories that Russia hacked a Vermont utility or spread “fake news” via dozens of U.S. websites from Drudge to Truthdig, and you read past the headline of stories like “Trump Aides Had Contact With Russian Intelligence.”

On the other hand, lies are lies, and lies under oath are even bigger lies, regardless of what they’re about—Russia or height or size of fish. So the question is simple: did Sessions perjure himself, and was some sort of cover-up going on?

Hoping that Vanity Fair passes the "pylon test"

NigelUno wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:And Vanity Fair starts walking things back.....now that many are accusing the Dems of overreach.

This after the news hits that the OBAMA administration set up the "meeting" with Ambassadors at the R convention.

THE DIRTY SECRET BEHIND THE JEFF SESSIONS MESS-  It may not be as sinister as it seems.





Hoping that Vanity Fair passes the "pylon test"

Didn't you say Sessions should have recused himself yesterday (after mocking Democrats for saying it earlier)?

Are you now walking that back?