‘I didn’t have communications with the Russians,’ Sessions said under
oath. We now know that he did, and it's time for a full investigation.
By Jay Michaelson
Attorney General Jeff Sessions
did not tell the truth in his sworn Senate confirmation hearing, and
skirted the truth in the written questionnaire accompanying it.
The next steps, according to precedent and law, are clear: An FBI investigation must commence to determine if there are grounds to indict Sessions for perjury, and an independent prosecutor must be appointed to look into Sessions’s conduct in particular, and perhaps the Trump administration’s ties to Russia in general.
On Jan. 10, Sen. Al Franken cited then-newly released documents
alleging high-level Trump campaign contacts with the Russian
government. Franken said several times that these documents had not been
verified, but then asked, “If there is any evidence that anyone
affiliated with the Trump campaign communicated with the Russian
government in the course of this campaign, what would you do?”
Sessions—who had sworn under oath to tell the truth at the start of his
hearing—replied, “Sen. Franken, I’m not aware of any of those
activities. I have been called a ‘surrogate’ at a time or two in that
campaign, and I didn’t have communications with the Russians, and I’m
unable to comment.”
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Source: The Daily Beast
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