Attorney General Jefferson Davis Sessions, aka KKK Beauregard, appears to be bending over backwards to evade public testimony about the many crimes he and his Republican colleagues committed before, during, and since the installation of Donald Trump, aka Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten, as Resident. Keeping his testimony secret before the Gang of Eight guarantees that the Republicans who knew of his crimes when they confirmed him can help him cover them up. What is Beauregard hiding?
Back in early March, when Attorney General Jeff Sessions first recused himself from the Russia investigation, I noted that it was an example of something that is peculiar to big political scandals. Certainly at the start, it is all but impossible to judge their full scope and detail. We don’t know enough. But often we can infer the depth and scope of big scandals by the intensity of the gravitation that surrounds them.
That was my first thought when Sessions meetings and recusal hit the news in early March. I have a very low view of Jeff Sessions. But it never occurred to me he was tied up, even in the sense of possibly inconsequential meetings, with the Russia story.
Now we have more. Possibly a lot more. Let’s take a moment to go through it.
Yesterday afternoon the Justice Department sent out a statement from Sessions announcing that he would be meeting Tuesday with the Senate intelligence committee to discuss issues raised by James Comey last Thursday. Sessions had been scheduled to testify before the House and Senate judiciary committees about next year’s budget – a mundane and routine part of regular congressional oversight. But Senators had alerted Sessions that they would use the opportunity to ask about issues raised in Comey’s testimony. The Committee at some point between Thursday and Saturday asked for Sessions to return to speak to them. Sessions announced that he would send Rod Rosenstein to discuss the budget in his stead and testify – it now turns out in closed session – before the intelligence committee.
Congress has a fair degree of latitude in arranging its hearing schedule in such high profile cases. I see little to no reason why Sessions had to choose between the two hearings. Though I do not believe the intel committee hearing was his idea or (in a broad sense) voluntary, Sessions appears to have used the intel committee hearing to avoid public testimony… [emphasis added]
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His On-Again-Off-Again is now On Again, supposedly for tomorrow, with the comment (BARF BAG ALERT) that he will testify publicly "so the people can hear the truth." (I may be a syllable or two off, but that is the gist of it, honest to God.) I will not be listening. I will be waiting for the analyses and transcripts. Sheesh!
Here's hoping that he testifies, and I hope, as I'm sure they will, split this investigation wide open.
"Mysteries like these, new hidden information coming to the fore simply don’t happen when there’s not something big at the center of the story."
I never thought that he was not involved in any of the crap going on, deeply, in the Trump garbage. I expect him to purjure himself in the hearing, if it ever happens, and and tie the concrete boots to his very own feet!
I can't believe I did this, but I actually read a Faux Noise report about whether Sessions would testify in an open session or a closed session. God, I feel dirty for reading it! It was the most recent article while all the others were half a day or more old.
"Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ highly anticipated testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday will be public, committee leaders announced …"
As to what Sessions is hiding, I'm not sure. But it would not surprise me if he is in deeper with the Russians and possibly on account of Drumpf. He has already lied several times about the number of contacts with Kislyak, some during his confirmation. Whatever it is, I hopes it explodes in his face and he takes Drumpf down too.
Resist and Persist!!!
Sessions: Perjury
I don't know what Sessions is hiding. The fact remains that Sessions lied under oath.
Perjury Under Federal Law: A Brief Overview
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/98-808.pdf
I can only hope and dream that "Attorney General Jefferson Davis Sessions, aka KKK Beauregard" gets convicted of perjury and gets his lilly-white ass into a southern private prison where he will have Big Bubba as his roommate.
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Sessions has lied before under oath, so we can reasonably expect him to do so again and will "let people hear the truth" as Drumpf sees, it of course. And the Republican chaired Intelligence Committee will allow that, public hearing or not. We'll know soon enough if he does (it's midday on Tuesday here already).
Any additional lies during that hearing will be just that, lies which are revealed as such at some later state by an investigative reporter, but never made into perjury and never with personal consequence. Or he will just refuse to answer certain questions, as others did. It will matter to the further investigations into the Russian Thing, but what should also matter to Americans that Sessions, a man who has no problem perjuring himself for a committee, is Attorney General, head of the Department of Justice, and while all attention is drawn to this Russian Thing, is doing everything possible to implement the Drumpfian/Republican vision on "justice", like his renewed "war on drugs".
I'd turn it on, but I might barf! Hugs!
I did not watch any of it but it was on the news. In the bit that was played, Ron Wyden had some interactions with Sessions. The following was taken from USA Today but is the same exchange that was aired. I can tell you that Sessions was getting his knickers in a twist and trying to play the victim. Sessions did not win any friends.
And CNN interviewed Sen Martin Heinrich of NM.
To say the least, Sessions was aggrieved by the questioning and as I said, his knickers were in such a twist that he damn near stopped the blood flow to his brain.