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Russias ambassador to Washington told his superiors in Moscow that he discussed campaign-related matters, including policy issues important to Moscow, with Jeff Sessions during the 2016 presidential race, contrary to public assertions by the embattled attorney general, according to current and former U.S. officials.
Ambassador Sergey Kislyaks accounts of two conversations with Sessions then a top foreign policy adviser to Republican candidate Donald Trump were intercepted by U.S. spy agencies, which monitor the communications of senior Russian officials both in the United States and in Russia. Sessions initially failed to disclose his contacts with Kislyak and then said that the meetings were not about the Trump campaign.
One U.S. official said that Sessions who testified that he has no recollection of the April encounter has provided misleading statements that are contradicted by other evidence. A former official said that the intelligence indicates that Sessions and Kislyak had substantive discussions on matters including Trumps positions on Russia-related issues and prospects for U.S.-Russia relations in a Trump administration.
Sessions has said repeatedly that he never discussed campaign-related issues with Russian officials and that it was only in his capacity as a U.S. Senator that he met with Kislyak.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/sessions-discussed-trump-campaign-related-matters-with-russian-ambassador-us-intelligence-intercepts-show/2017/07/21/3e704692-6e44-11e7-9c15-177740635e83_story.html?tid=a_breakingnews&utm_term=.540b5de9204d
Eliot Rosewater
(31,106 posts)Russian ambassador is a spy for the KGB.
That is what he is, this is a known fact, commonly known.
Sure, they call it GRU now, same thing, in fact same EXACT thing.
WE cant survive if one of our two parties are by definition, traitors.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)CentralMass
(15,265 posts)uponit7771
(90,301 posts)BootinUp
(47,053 posts)VermontKevin
(1,473 posts)Sessions discussed Trump campaign-related matters with Russian ambassador, U.S. intelligence intercepts show
Russias ambassador to Washington told his superiors in Moscow that he discussed campaign-related matters, including policy issues important to Moscow, with Jeff Sessions during the 2016 presidential race, contrary to public assertions by the embattled attorney general, according to current and former U.S. officials.
Ambassador Sergey Kislyaks accounts of two conversations with Sessions then a top foreign policy adviser to Republican candidate Donald Trump were intercepted by U.S. spy agencies, which monitor the communications of senior Russian officials both in the United States and in Russia. Sessions initially failed to disclose his contacts with Kislyak and then said that the meetings were not about the Trump campaign.
One U.S. official said that Sessions who testified that he has no recollection of an April encounter has provided misleading statements that are contradicted by other evidence. A former official said that the intelligence indicates that Sessions and Kislyak had substantive discussions on matters including Trumps positions on Russia-related issues and prospects for U.S.-Russia relations in a Trump administration.
Sessions has said repeatedly that he never discussed campaign-related issues with Russian officials and that it was only in his capacity as a U.S. Senator that he met with Kislyak.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/sessions-discussed-trump-campaign-related-matters-with-russian-ambassador-us-intelligence-intercepts-show/2017/07/21/3e704692-6e44-11e7-9c15-177740635e83_story.html?utm_term=.1f2fbe2eb375
Demtexan
(1,588 posts)Everybody working for Trump better start talking.
VermontKevin
(1,473 posts)Demtexan
(1,588 posts)VermontKevin
(1,473 posts)Demtexan
(1,588 posts)And a white sheet.
Mr.Bill
(24,228 posts)was a pillowcase.
rzemanfl
(29,554 posts)Like Kislyak would lie to his superiors in a country where that could result in his death.
Goodheart
(5,307 posts)sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Sessions as a former senator and attorney has a lot of practice communicating in public. He was PROBABLY careful enough to avoid telling actually lies (he "didn't recall" . But it would be interesting to go back and see.
FarPoint
(12,276 posts)When will it come out that the President knew! Shall I say Presidential Candidate know?
NRaleighLiberal
(60,006 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Wow, its almost like trump and Russia are cooperating.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,106 posts)is what is happening here.
FarPoint
(12,276 posts)Now if the tRumpsters would be able to figure this out ..We could clean out the terrorist from our White House.
Tatiana
(14,167 posts)Bet on it... Rachel laid it out. He wants to put in another AG that will fire Mueller.
The Elf should stay on, if for no other reason than to spite Trump/Russia. If he has any sense of loyalty to this country he will spill everything he knows to Mueller.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Let the guessing begin!
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,938 posts)ecstatic
(32,641 posts)Worse case scenario is there's a Russian spy in one of our spy agencies. Trump is starting to be made aware of shit that's coming regarding the probe, etc.
And I could have sworn this story about Sessions already came out months ago?
Or was it another campaign member who discussed the campaign with Kislyak in yet another undisclosed meeting?
This is becoming way too much to keep up with!
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,938 posts)... to show the seriousness of the crimes, to make it more difficult for Trump to maneuver. Sessions had quite a role and this pins collusion right in the heart of Trump's campaign, right in the heart of the McCONnell Senate Republicans.
This makes it even less likely Trump will fire Mueller.
IthinkThereforeIAM
(3,075 posts)... eom
Kablooie
(18,605 posts)Since he refused to quit after the NYT article.
He really wants Sessions out of there so he can put a stoogie in that will fire Mueller for him.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,938 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,106 posts)of coffee, stand in line at a movie theater without thousands of patriots SCREAMING "traitor" to his face
Or her face, but trump doesnt like women.
eleny
(46,166 posts)The timing is just too cozy.
On cue, Hugh Hewitt is on MSNBC's Hardball speculating on the replacement already.
Hugin
(33,032 posts)Same thing they talked about in the meeting with Mini-Don.
And yet the Orangutan claims to not know anything about any Quid-Pro-Quo with the Kremlin.
marybourg
(12,584 posts)bathroommonkey76
(3,827 posts)It's good to see the MSM catching up to their tweets.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)roamer65
(36,744 posts)mcar
(42,278 posts)BannonsLiver
(16,288 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,341 posts)bluestarone
(16,851 posts)bet mitch is getting worried!!!
Freethinker65
(9,998 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)That's a felony right there.
Tatiana
(14,167 posts)In a way, it serves Sessions right to be stuck in a job in which he commands little respect and much disdain by most others in his department. He should stay, if for no other reason than to thwart Trump's attempts to remove him and fire Mueller.
Holder seems to be aware of the tension at DOJ. Something is up... Most of these career public servants are truly patriotic and care about their country.
randr
(12,409 posts)who put it on the hook
tandem5
(2,072 posts)there's nothing to keep him from picking up the fishing rod and reeling it in.
tandem5
(2,072 posts)no Rosenstein intermediary. No intermediary means no more Mueller (eventually).
mchill
(1,017 posts)Either won't get it or made to promise no move on Mueller.
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)Senate Dems changed the rules a few years back because of the anti-Obama obstructionism.
bench scientist
(1,107 posts)Kaleva
(36,240 posts)Comey was fired May 9th and we have yet to have a new FBI Director confirmed by the Senate.
redstateblues
(10,565 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Lock them up
BHDem53
(1,061 posts)"a little elfin magic goes a long way".
Harry Also
(23 posts)Throwing Casper to the wolves.
Stinky The Clown
(67,757 posts)OldRedneck
(1,397 posts)Trump -- or someone close to him, at his direction -- leaked these intercepts.
Why?
To force Sessions to resign. Trump then will appoint a new Attorney General who will fire Mueller.
joanbarnes
(1,721 posts)USALiberal
(10,877 posts)Response to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)
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