{"id":28053,"date":"2017-06-12T13:08:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T20:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=28053"},"modified":"2017-06-12T13:08:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T20:08:26","slug":"what-is-beauregard-hiding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/12\/what-is-beauregard-hiding\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Beauregard Hiding?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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?<\/font><\/p>\n

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Back in early March, when Attorney General Jeff Sessions first recused himself from the Russia investigation, I noted that it was an example<\/a> 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\u2019t know enough. But often we can infer the depth and scope of big scandals by the intensity of the gravitation that surrounds them.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Now we have more. Possibly a lot more. Let\u2019s take a moment to go through it.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s budget \u2013 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\u2019s 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 \u2013 it now turns out in closed session<\/strong> \u2013 before the intelligence committee.<\/p>\n

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<\/strong>… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

From <TPM<\/a>><\/font><\/p>\n

Click through to read the entire article.  What is Beauregard hiding?  It may be more appropriate to ask, "What ISN’T Beauregard hiding?"<\/font><\/p>\n

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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 […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}