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

[blue32]

It's funny that you say that since you're the biggest media Kool-Aid Drinker of all the posters here. If this was somebody in Obama's administration you'd be going fucking nuts right now.

Sorry, but I read the full transcript and made my decision based on his duties as a Senator. If audio recording comes out that he is guilty of what they are assuming he did in his Senator capacity then I will call for him to resign. Until then, this is a non-story.

There is a bit of a difference between tweeting and testifying. You can not be prosecuted for lying on twitter.

See, much better reply. Well done. But we disagree on him lying. Specially when you read the full transcript.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

See, much better reply. Well done. But we disagree on him lying. Specially when you read the full transcript.

Should Sessions oversee the investigation of Russian involvement in the election?

 

[dviss1]

It's funny how people would defend this lying sack of racist shit.

 

[H.C.]

It's funny how people would defend this lying sack of racist shit.

People defended Clinton.
Same story, different day.

After reading the full (not the WAPO cut one) transcript. I do not think he lied. The implication, insinuation, or context was about Russians and Trump's campaign communication.
He met with Russian officials under official capacity as a Senator, not a Trump campaign member.
He can't stop doing his job as a Senator, because someone "called him a surrogate, a time or two".

We can agree to disagree, simply because I could bring up "grey area" for Clinton also.

 

[blue32]

It's funny how people would defend this lying sack of racist shit.

Oh, here we go...

 

[blue32]

Should Sessions oversee the investigation of Russian involvement in the election?

Wasn't there already an investigation into the election tampering and they found no evidence that changed votes, during Obama?
Is there something new you are referring to?

Edit: This whole line of questioning from Franken to Sessions wasn't about Russian tampering in the election.

Franken's question was all about the fake MI6 dossier, and the #pissgate hooker story, along with alleged meetings between Russia and some of Trump's people, in which they even got the wrong person.

It's pretty clear in context that Sessions was asked about the allegations in the dossier and that is exactly what he was denying, to the extent of his abilities to do so.

Also Senator Patrick Leahy asked Sessions if he had "been in contact with anyone connected to any part of the Russian government about the 2016 election, either before or after election day. Sessions said "no". And there is no evidence anywhere to cast doubt on that claim, including WAPO.

 

[BlazerWookee]

Routine meetings for a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. The questions were framed to refer to conversations about the campaign, and in that context the meetings were irrelevant to the questions.

 

[MarAzul]

What I care about is lying under oath to the senate.

Geez! The Koran advocates lying to the infidel at every opportunity!

 

[MarAzul]

Does anyone serious think the Russian had any way of influencing this election? With the help of any Republican or not?
If the Russian had set on their hands, why would all the deplorable have voted for Clinton?

Did you collude with the Russians to influence the election?

How can, "No" ever be a lie when it can't be done?

 

[THE HCP]

So Trump supporters think this is a "non story" ? Just want to make sure I understand this. Still wondering at what point this president stops representing you and your beliefs and values.... what scandal will be enough or too much? There has to be a breaking point right?

 

[MarAzul]

There has to be a breaking point right?

I don't expect it.
This sort of shit is just watching dems set their hair on fire.

 

[Further]

Is Sessions working with the Russians? There is not enough evidence to definitively make that claim.

However, there is enough between this current Sessions misstatement and Flynn to have a special prosecutor appointed. Sessions can't be in charge of the investigations.

 

[MarAzul]

Is Sessions working with the Russians? There is not enough evidence to definitively make that claim.

However, there is enough between this current Sessions misstatement and Flynn to have a special prosecutor appointed. Sessions can't be in charge of the investigations.

Go make some wine.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

Fucking A with the Russian shit. Ffs.

 

[MarAzul]

They eliminated the special prosecutor law after the last one took years investigating the misuse of cigars.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

I mean shit. I'm over it. Let's just all talk to Russians and be cool man. Cool as a cucumber martini.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

As far as russian spies, isn't every Russian a Russian spy? What does that even really mean? Idk Was the dude a straight up KGB agent?

In other countries they think all Americans are American spies probably. It's like what the fuck ever.

All that said, sessions is a piece of shit, and if he hangs for whatever reason, I'm all for it. Fuck'm.

 

[THE HCP]

I don't expect it.
This sort of shit is just watching dems set their hair on fire.

Are you saying these people involved are in the same "side" as you? Wondering if this happened with Hillary's people you would brush it off as a non story or non issue? Honest question?

 

[THE HCP]

I don't give a fuck who I'm a fan of or voted for or root for, if they are doing things that don't represent me or speak for me......I'm out. Can't support that kind of shit.

 

[blue32]

So Trump supporters think this is a "non story" ? Just want to make sure I understand this. Still wondering at what point this president stops representing you and your beliefs and values.... what scandal will be enough or too much? There has to be a breaking point right?

What exactly do you think Sessions did wrong?
Did you read the REAL context of the Franken question and not just the WAPO cut up quote?
Please understand Sessions was answering a question, asked by Franken, about a fake news story running by CNN, regarding the "MI6 Dossier" and the question was insinuating current or former campaign members from that dossier. It was not a specific question about himself. And this is why Sessions replied the way he did.

 

[MarAzul]

Wondering if this happened with Hillary's people you would brush it off as a non story or non issue? Honest question?

Well when Hillary lied about Benghazi being caused by some friggin video, I was miffed. Then I went and looked at the video. Then I was pissed, really pissed.
I see nothing now to piss me off. Does that answer your question?

 

[blue32]

I don't give a fuck who I'm a fan of or voted for or root for, if they are doing things that don't represent me or speak for me......I'm out. Can't support that kind of shit.

Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch, among many, many others. Every single administration in history has had this happen to them.
You'll always be 'out' at that point.

 

[rasheedfan2005]

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.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...e613afeb09f_story.html?utm_term=.025d1192308d

let's hear about the bilderberg meetings next.

 

[H.C.]

Geez! The Koran advocates lying to the infidel at every opportunity!

I didn't know jeff sessions followed a muslim sect.

 

[MarAzul]

I didn't know jeff sessions followed a muslim sect.

I don't think he does.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Trump just issued a pardon for Sessions.

 

[Further]

Well, Sessions just recused himself from all current and future FBI investigations into Russia and trump campaign ties.

It's a first step, but I'd love a special prosecutor

 

[BlazerWookee]

Are you saying these people involved are in the same "side" as you? Wondering if this happened with Hillary's people you would brush it off as a non story or non issue? Honest question?

Thing is, what they say happened DIDN'T HAPPEN. He was asked if he spoke with the Russians about the campaign, and he said no. Then they pointed at two conversations he had with the Russian Ambassador as part of his job as a senior member of the Armed Services Committee, and started shouting "He said he didn't talk to the Russians!"

It's the politics of personal destruction techniques that Clinton perfected when he was in office. It doesn't matter what's true, it only matters what we can make people think is true by sheer repetition.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Sessions meetings with Russian ambassador not on his calendar. All other meetings with ambassadors are on his calendar. His staff had no knowledge of his meetings with Russian ambassador.

 

[The Professional Fan]

It doesn't matter what's true, it only matters what we can make people think is true by sheer repetition.

Sounds familiar.