Jeff Sessions addresses 'anti-LGBT hate group,' but DOJ won't release his remarks

[jpak]

Source: ABC News

Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivered a speech to an alleged hate group at an event closed to reporters on Tuesday night, but the Department of Justice is refusing to reveal what he said.

Sessions addressed members of the Alliance Defending Freedom, which was designated an “anti-LGBT hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2016, at the Summit on Religious Liberty at the Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel, in Dana Point, California.

The event promised to “bring together prominent legal advocates, scholars, cultural commentators, business executives and church leaders to examine the current state of religious freedom” and “develop legal and cultural strategies to allow freedom to flourish in the United States and around the world.”

A spokesperson for the Department of Justice confirmed that Sessions addressed the Alliance Defending Freedom on Tuesday but did not respond to multiple requests to release his remarks. The Department of Justice released a transcript of remarks he delivered in Dallas earlier on Tuesday and a transcript of remarks he delivered in Las Vegas on Wednesday, but a transcript of his address to the Alliance Defending Freedom has yet to be released.

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[wcmagumba]

1. Wonder if this might be covered by FOIA? nt

[sandensea]

2. And this year's Roy Cohn Award goes to...

[Ligyron]

3. Maybe some deplorables taped it.

Be dyno for Bad Lip Sink or Hitler's bunker rant.

[Ilsa]

4. Somebody needs to find a way to slip a recording device in, or a

Microphone to a recorder nearby. I'm tired of their secrecy.

[Solly Mack]

5. K&R

Always a POS, Sessions is.

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. I think all government officials at levels that high should have all speeches be public

and have their words published on a government website, and if video, then that, too. And anyone at the cabinet position should never be allowed to speak anywhere, at any time, that the press is not allowed - no matter how private the group is that he/she is talking to, and no matter how much that group otherwise does not allow outsiders into their meetings.

I'm tired of high up officials being allowed to speak to private groups and us having no idea what the hell they said.

Even if they're a coin collector and give a 100% non-controversial speech at their local numismatist society, that needs to be published.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Secrecy is no way to run a government

unless it's a totalitarian regime

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. Kick (nt)

[Blue_Tires]

9. If only Sessions had spoken to a bunch of Wall Street power brokers

We might have actually seen some genuine outrage...