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bigtree

(85,998 posts)
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 08:42 AM Jul 2017

What's Jeff Sessions Hiding?

Bradd Jaffy‏ @BraddJaffy 39m39 minutes ago
Justice Department defies court-ordered deadline to release Jeff Sessions' contacts with Russians


____ On June 12, a judge had ordered the agency to provide the information within 30 days, a deadline which passed on Wednesday.

A recently-launched ethics watchdog group called American Oversight filed a Freedom of Information Act request in March for sections of the Standard Form 86 relating to Sessions' contacts "with any official of the Russian government."

The group then filed a lawsuit in April after it said the government didn't provide the documents.

"Jeff Sessions is our nation's top law enforcement officer, and it is shocking one of his first acts after being named Attorney General was to mislead his own agency about a matter of national security," the group's executive director, Austin Evers, said in a statement.

He continued: "The court gave DOJ thirty days to produce Attorney General Sessions's security clearance form, DOJ has already confirmed its contents to the press and Sessions has testified about it to Congress, so there is no good reason to withhold this document from the public."


read more: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/13/536982193/justice-department-defies-court-deadline-to-release-sessions-contacts-with-russi

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What's Jeff Sessions Hiding? (Original Post) bigtree Jul 2017 OP
republican lawbreakers & perjurers should be locked up Achilleaze Jul 2017 #1
K&R... spanone Jul 2017 #2
Jeff Sessions is hiding a great deal Gothmog Jul 2017 #3
Here's the Headline I want to see: PearliePoo2 Jul 2017 #4
Is this the situation one senator was referring to yesterday when he said... Frustratedlady Jul 2017 #5
Sessions is right where they wanted him..... dawnie51 Jul 2017 #6
I've noticed that when he smiles he isn't really smiling The Blue Flower Jul 2017 #7
russian connections spanone Jul 2017 #8
yep bigtree Jul 2017 #10
Funny how..."there were no contacts with the Russians" Docreed2003 Jul 2017 #9
Lyin' Sessions bigtree Jul 2017 #11

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
1. republican lawbreakers & perjurers should be locked up
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 08:44 AM
Jul 2017

the republicans are a criminal mob at this point, pissing over any and all laws they choose to violate.

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
5. Is this the situation one senator was referring to yesterday when he said...
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 09:04 AM
Jul 2017

Sessions had said he wouldn't answer any questions from Democrats? He would answer questions only from Republicans. I didn't catch his name.

As head of the DOJ, I should think that would not be allowed. That little pipsqueak needs to be taken behind the woodshed and taught a lesson on who is in-charge...and, it ain't him. He lies with that stupid grin on his face and has learned (over the years from childhood) how to look you straight in the eyes while he's lying...which is often.

The sooner he is removed from office, the sooner this country can start to heal. Justice is the first step. With him in office, we'll never get rid of Trump and his tribe.

dawnie51

(959 posts)
6. Sessions is right where they wanted him.....
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 09:11 AM
Jul 2017

why else would a little dipshit nobody like him have this job in the first place? He is there to keep everything at bay

Docreed2003

(16,864 posts)
9. Funny how..."there were no contacts with the Russians"
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 09:46 AM
Jul 2017

And yet practically every member of this administration has had to admit contacts retroactively. It's a total coincidence I'm sure

bigtree

(85,998 posts)
11. Lyin' Sessions
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 11:42 AM
Jul 2017

Ted Lieu‏ @tedlieu 1h1 hour ago
Lyin' #Sessions now disobeying court order to disclose his contacts with Russians. THIS IS NOT OKAY. It also shows CONSCIOUSNESS OF GUILT.

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