Justice Department Defies Court Deadline To Release Sessions' Contacts With Russians
Source: NPR
In defiance of a court order, the Justice Department is refusing to release part of a security form dealing with Attorney General Jeff Sessions' contacts with the Russian government.
On June 12, a judge had ordered the agency to provide the information within 30 days, a deadline that 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' contact "with any official of the Russian government."
"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.
Read more: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/13/536982193/justice-department-defies-court-deadline-to-release-sessions-contacts-with-russi
They're lookin' at you, Beauregard.
turbinetree
(24,632 posts)now, this is contempt of the court, there is nothing else but utter contempt, he falsified that government document and needs to held accountable-----------------now
Fuck him
forgotmylogin
(7,496 posts)Pack it in, folks, nothing to see!
riversedge
(69,713 posts)riversedge
(69,713 posts)looks like we might have an update -hopefully soon.
......A status conference in the case is scheduled for 10 a.m. Thursday at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
jpak
(41,741 posts)Throw the book at him
Heron5
(69 posts)In a filing Thursday morning with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the Justice Department released that part of Sessions' form which poses the question:
"Have you or any of your immediate family in the past seven (7) years [bold font in original] had any contact with a foreign government, its establishment (such as embassy, consulate, agency, military service, intelligence or security service, etc.) or its representatives, whether inside or outside the U.S.?"
Sessions checked "No."
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/13/536982193/justice-department-defies-court-deadline-to-release-sessions-contacts-with-russi
The_jackalope
(1,660 posts)Is that it? No?
Congress does need to assert itself here.
That is a bald-faced, obvious, verifiable lie. This is exactly why we have congressional oversight and separation of powers. You can't just flout the law like that.