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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJeff Sessions, who lied to Congress about Russian meetings, recommended Trump fire Comey
Jeff Sessions, who lied to Congress about Russian meetings, recommended Trump fire Comey
By Hunter
Tuesday May 09, 2017 · 6:55 PM EST
Two important reminders on Trump's sudden firing of FBI Director James Comey: First, Comey was scheduled to testify to the Senate Intelligence Committee about just two days from now. That hearing wasn't intended to be specifically about Russian hacking, but as part of an annual assessment of "current and projected national security threats to the United States" it was all but certain to have come up.
Second, the person who recommended Comey be fired was himself shepherded into the attorney general's office despite demonstrably lying to Congress about his own contacts with Russian officials. While Jeff Sessions' letter mews that the FBI director "must be someone who follows faithfully the rules and principles of the Department of Justice and who sets the right example for our law enforcement officials," Sessions was forced to recuse himself from investigations into possible collusion between Russian hackers and Trump campaign members due to, well, that whole lying to Congress part.
Now, in the immediate aftermath of a blistering hearing in which once again law enforcement officials again strongly hinted at possible evidence of such collusion, Jeff Sessions and Donald Trump have assigned to themselves the task of choosing the next person to carry on the Trump-Russia investigation.
Trump and Sessions are already attempting to paint that as a coincidence. Given the uproar already, that's not likely to fly.
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/9/1660569/-Jeff-Sessions-who-lied-to-Congress-about-Russian-meetings-recommended-Trump-fire-Comey?detail=facebook
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Jeff Sessions, who lied to Congress about Russian meetings, recommended Trump fire Comey (Original Post)
babylonsister
May 2017
OP
When I first heard news of the termination, I KNEW that racist little shit-stain
bullwinkle428
May 2017
#1
The entire drumpf administration is guilty as hell and will do anything to save itself.
democratisphere
May 2017
#2
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)1. When I first heard news of the termination, I KNEW that racist little shit-stain
was totally neck-deep in it.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)2. The entire drumpf administration is guilty as hell and will do anything to save itself.
ANYTHING!
malaise
(268,998 posts)3. So what does recuse mean? n/t
babylonsister
(171,065 posts)4. AFAIK, to remove
yourself from a specific situation because you've been involved and could be biased.
He removed himself from the US-Russia connection, and this is bullshit because he's still involved. For starters.