Sessions Downplayed Relationship With Breitbart News In Senate Questionnaire

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo

By MATT SHUHAM Published DECEMBER 22, 2016, 5:58 PM EDT


President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), vastly undercounted his appearances on Breitbart News’ radio programs and website in a questionnaire required for his confirmation hearings, according to a review by Right Wing Watch published Thursday.

In Sessions’ questionnaire for the Senate Judiciary Committee, he listed nine appearances collectively on Breitbart’s audio platforms, including Breitbart Sirius XM Radio and Breitbart Daily Radio Show, and four print interviews on Breitbart’s website.

But Right Wing Watch found nine additional radio interviews and three print interviews Sessions had given the publication since 2013 alone, along with a “handful” of op-eds Sessions had written for the site, that weren't listed on the questionnaire.

In one omitted interview from Oct. 5, 2015, Sessions lamented the state of U.S. immigration policies and pined for the immigration quotas that existed up until 1965. “In fact, when the numbers reached about this high in 1924, the president and Congress changed the policy, and it slowed down immigration significantly,” Sessions told Steve Bannon, then Breitbart News’ executive chairman. “We then assimilated, through 1965, and created really a solid middle class of America with assimilated immigrants, and it was good for America. And then we passed this law that went far beyond what anybody realized in 1965, and we’re on a path to surge far past what the situation was in 1924.”

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[Tactical Peek]

1. Lock him up.

Lying liar.

[iluvtennis]

3. + 1 nt

[Grey Lemercier]

4. +2

[dionysus]

5. For what? Unless he was lying under oath, he conmitted no crime. Some people arecoming what they

Say they hate.

[Thor_MN]

2. Perjury before Congress is punishable by fine and/or imprisonment.

If it involves terrorism, of which, IMO Breitbart is a prime example, the imprisonment could be u to 8 years.

[Mc Mike]

6. Committing felony perjury at Senate confirmation hearing does seem like a fairly standard way

for a repug chief law enforcement official to begin their tenure. (Same for any repug appointee to the Supreme Court.)

Repug admins regularly use up crooked US AG's like kleenex. Nixon, Raygun, li'l bush admins ran through 13 AG s and acting AG s, between their 3 admins.