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Sessions met with Russian envoy twice last year, encounters he later did not disclose

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Casca XV said:
No, that the Weasel in Chief is out of official power is the best thing to happen to America and the world in the last 8 years.

But if you are going to have a Leftist in power Obama is a good one to have, because he is not a leader he is a weak little Bureaucrat. If Obama had been a competent leader the US by now would have been another version of the USSR. Obama would have Libertarian/Conservatives people like me in Concentration Camps/Gulags. What Useful Idiots like poweRob don't understand is that they most likely would have been in the camps right beside us.
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Concentration camps? Seriously?

Do you honestly believe that crap?
 
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poweRob said:
Not at all. You seem rather peeved though.
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:lol: so nothing on your raging "hypocrisy"?


You are cool with holding the exact opposite position on use of a term because its you now using it?
 
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ludin said:
Franklin asked if anyone affliated with the campaign talked to the Russian government.

Sessions wasn't affiliated with the campaign nor did he have any communication with the Russian government as an affiliate of the trump campaign.
so no he didn't lie.

YOu can't dissociate the answer from the question. the question was dealing with people affiliated and communication of the trump campaign.

maybe franken should have asked a better question such as "have you had any contact with Russian government during the 2016 year".
then if he had said that he would have been lying, but that wasn't the question.

the question was about affiliation with the trump campaign.
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That is also a lie. At the time Sessions met with the Russian Ambassador, Sessions was chairman of the campaign's National Security Advisory Committee.

Sessions was more than Trump surrogate in meetings with Russian envoy
 
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Harry Guerrilla said:
Let's pretend you're a senator for a moment.
How many people do you meet with on a daily, weekly and monthly basis?
How many foreign officials do you meet with and is that normal?

Given the above and without immediate records available to fact check yourself, is it plausible that he may have forgot?
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Doesn't seem likely, or Sessions is a very careless man with a careless and incompetent staff. Surely he would have anticipated questions about Russian ties - it's been in the news just a little - and therefore a guy with his experience in D.C. and Congressional hearings and the HIGH potential for gotcha questions should have at a minimum had his staff review his calendar and highlight any contact on the record with anyone from the Russian government.
 
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TheGoverness said:
Concentration camps? Seriously?

Do you honestly believe that crap?
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I'm pretty sure he does.
 
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Mason66 said:
I wonder what any of this would have to do with impartiality and fairness in doing his job?
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Nothing. It doesn't have anything to do with Russia, Russian hacking, or Putin, either. It's about locking onto a target and taking it out by any means necessary.
 
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ReverendHellh0und said:
:lol: so nothing on your raging "hypocrisy"?


You are cool with holding the exact opposite position on use of a term because its you now using it?
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I've no idea what you are talking about. Is it thread related at all?
 
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ReverendHellh0und said:
The anonymous sources, once again, did.
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Let's get it all out in the open then. Full independent investigation of Trump's possible professional and personal connections to the Russians including reviewing his taxes and including his business relationships over the previous 10 or 12 years and a full investigation of his staff's connections to the Russian.
 
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danarhea said:
Ah yes. Those super duper double secret FEMA camps that are so secret nobody ever found them. LMAO.
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Obama sure liked to talk about FEMA Camps, to the point that even MSNBC Richard Maddow was appalled........ You are making this to easy. danarhea, what is it like joining poweRob as fish in a barrel?

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...w5OIN9k9BBXkcmrSA&sig2=Mr7Wjg5pNY0jNCxvsuqQQQ
 
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I guess Sessions didn't talk to the Kislyak about the campaign... AT THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.

It's just normal political business. Foreign meetings in the service of the Armed Services Committee always happens at a political campaign rally.

Bidness as you-jewal.
 
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Mason66 said:
He is an older man. I am not sure how many times he can still reuse himself.
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Darn autocorrect.
But I think you know I ment to say RECUSE NOT reuse.
 
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ReverendHellh0und said:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!


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That's gonna leave a mark...



BTW what is the job of an ambassador? What do they do?
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I like how you just laughed over this part of the post you quoted:

But McCaskill, also a member of the committee, tweeted that she has never had contact with the ambassador in her capacity on the Armed Services Committee.​

I'm just positive that that was an accident on your part.

:lamo
 
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TurtleDude said:
fake outrage concealing butt hurt over the Dems losing the election
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The accusation is getting old especially for those of us who are not Democrats and those of us who did not vote for Clinton.
 
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jmotivator said:
False! He told Franken that he had no contact with the Russians as a Trump Campaign surrogate.
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LOL, that is false! He didn't qualify his "I did not have communications with the Russians" statement. It's not like he wears two hats, one as "surrogate" and one as "Senator" and only when he has his "surrogate" hat on is it relevant to that answer.
 
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MaggieD said:
What are you talking about? When did Sessions lie under oath?? He also did NOT say what you've quoted him as saying.

God, you guys stroke each other's ego and don't even know what's going on.
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Yeah he did, more or less those exact words (Sessions garbled his answer a bit - was that a tell?....;)). See video here: https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/po...ff-sessions-testimony-on-russia-contacts.html
 
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/03/02/jeff-sessions-is-in-deep-trouble-bigly/?utm_term=.ad98f1a2ea7d

Jeff Sessions is in deep trouble. Bigly.
By Chris Cillizza March 2 at 10:53 AM

You can tell how much trouble a Washington politician is in by how forcefully his (or her) allies push back in the immediate aftermath of a bombshell negative story. By that measure, Attorney General Jeff Sessions is in big, big trouble.

In the 12-ish hours since The Post published a story that details two conversations Sessions had with the Russian ambassador to the United States, discussions that run directly counter to statements the then-Alabama senator made during his confirmation hearings, the defense of Sessions has been weak. And that's being kind.

Sessions himself — as expertly documented here by Aaron Blake — is responding by not really responding, setting up a straw man and then knocking it down with no real effect. “I never met with any Russian officials to discuss the issues of the campaign,” Sessions said in a statement released through a spokesman. That is a denial — just not of what The Post is reporting, which is simply that Sessions met with Sergey Kislyak twice in 2016 despite insisting he had no contact with Russia over that time.

Other leading Republicans were very hesitant to put themselves anywhere near Sessions's side on this. Jason Chaffetz, the Utah Republican who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, tweeted Thursday morning that Sessions must recuse himself from the ongoing FBI investigation into Russia's attempts to influence the 2016 election and “clarify” his testimony to the Judiciary Committee. Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio has also called for Sessions to recuse himself. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, a 2016 presidential candidate, went a step further.
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“We need an independent person, person that's not politically connected, that people in America can have confidence in to take over this investigation and make sure it's done correctly, to bring charges if need. Hopefully not charges. Hopefully they're not needed. But there are some serious allegations here that the American people need to know are fully investigated."
 
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I wonder if the Democrats were talking with Russia and Iran during the Iranian nuclear deal.

I suspect they were.
 
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poweRob said:
Two weeks ago Jeff Sessions declared he wouldn't recuse himself as AG from Trump to Russia investigations.


It's no wonder why...

Sessions met with Russian envoy twice last year, encounters he later did not disclose
In January, Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) asked Sessions for answers to written questions. “Several of the President-elect’s nominees or senior advisers have Russian ties. Have you been in contact with anyone connected to any part of the Russian government about the 2016 election, either before or after election day?” Leahy wrote.

Sessions responded with one word: “No.”​

Another lying jackass in this trumpster fire of an administration. One month in and this administration is showing a deep lack of ethics.
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And he changed his underwear 365 times at least last year, which he also didn't disclose. It's time to stop dividing our nation and start working together. This is just more political crap the Dems who are trying to dig up any amount of garbage they can to pollute our country and stop the changes that we so desperately need.
 
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Paperview said:
“We need an independent person, person that's not politically connected, that people in America can have confidence in to take over this investigation and make sure it's done correctly, to bring charges if need. Hopefully not charges. Hopefully they're not needed. But there are some serious allegations here that the American people need to know are fully investigated."
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You mean like what we demanded during the clinton investigation before and after the attorney general met with her husband in private on the airplane?
 
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Casca XV said:
One of those two meetings was where the Russian was with a group of other ambassadors and all they did was shake hands. The other was clearly in the context of Sessions working as a senator not on the Trump campaign.
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The accounts are that he met privately with the Russian ambassador after the group handshake.

And what evidence do you have that the second was "clearly" in the context of his role as Senator? Could have been, but if so it sure would have avoided a lot of problems if he'd said so up front!

It must be miserable to have spent the last 8 years watching Obama demonstrate how Progressive Liberalism doesn't work, by contrast Trumps substances changes improving everything, and Leftist can do is reach for useless crap like this to distract from their ideological failures.
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Denial - not just a river in Africa...:roll:
 
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