Jeff Sessions drags us all toward a slow decline with no answers

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http://www.salon.com/2017/06/14/jeff-sessions-drags-us-all-toward-a-slow-death-with-no-answers/

by Gary Legum at Salon

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Much like after Comey’s appearance before the committee last week, one big takeaway is the Trump administration’s total lack of interest in potential Russian interference in the election. This was summed up most vividly in an exchange between Sessions and Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, rendered nicely by Roger Simon of Politico:

King: Do you think Russians interfered with the 2016 election?

Sessions: Appears so.

King: But you never asked about it?

Sessions: No.

Sessions was sworn in as attorney general in early February. He did not recuse himself from the Russian investigation until almost four weeks later. He is the chief law enforcement officer in the country. He oversees the FBI, which hunts foreign spies on American soil. Yet with all the nation’s intelligence agencies screaming about Russian interference in the election, with a report published Monday by Bloomberg stating that hackers associated with Vladimir Putin’s intelligence services may have tried to hack voting machine software and voter registration data, Sessions simply was not interested in learning more about it? He was not interested in hearing what the nation’s federal law enforcement agencies might know about an attack on the machinery of American democracy?

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