Ha ha. I know you can’t prove a negative, but I think we’re at the point where it’s absolutely ridiculous to expect anything else.
Huh. Small world.
It’s just incredible, some of you! Someone waves a little bauble in front of your eyes and you forget about ***Benghazi ***like it never happened or was in the distant past. What happened to our priorities?
Even if no one else says it, Bricker, I appreciate your perspective and understanding of these matters.
“Oh, those Russians!”
“I did not have communications with the Russians…by which I mean talked with one Russian, so technically the plural isn’t true.”
“Senator, I’m old-school. I still think of them as Soviets.”
Amid this latest kerfuffle, let us not forget that Trump did win in a historically uuge landslide.
We are gremlins… from the Kremlin.
Like in the classic WB cartoon, this administration is not the new order, but the new odor.
This really stinks.
So I guess my question is, if Jason Chaffetz continues his long-running tradition of being a completely partisan douchenozzle with no respect for the law beyond where it can be used as a cudgel against his political opponents, what can be done about that? Is there some way around this obvious roadblock, other than a lynch mob?
I wouldn’t be surprised if he wiggled out of this on semantic grounds, but the case for a Special Prosecutor to investigate the whole Russia Connection issue is much, much stronger.
emails!
They should James Clapper him.
No really, at this point if you still have faith in democratic institutions you are probably in the employ of the government, otherwise on the dole, and/or taking psychiatric medication.
Wikipedia: Perjury is the intentional act of swearing a false oath or of falsifying an affirmation to tell the truth, whether spoken or in writing, concerning matters material to an official proceeding.[1][A] Contrary to popular misconception, no crime has occurred when a false statement is (intentionally or unintentionally) made while under oath or subject to penalty—instead, criminal culpability only attaches at the instant the declarant falsely asserts the truth of statements (made or to be made) which are material to the outcome of the proceeding.
Bricker, is this definition basically correct? Because if it is, ISTM that, regardless of the question’s specific reference to communications about the 2016 election, his blanket denial was material to the outcome of his confirmation proceeding.
I do think that even if this bit of lying under oath doesn’t meet the standard for perjury, it should disqualify him from being Attorney General.
And just in case nobody else has linked to it yet: Sessions in 1999, speaking about the importance of prosecuting Bill Clinton over perjury allegations.
And your point is, what? That we should just shrug our shoulders and accept that we’re in a kleptocracy?
And if you believe what you just said, why exactly are you still debating politics?
Oh, and Richard Painter, George W. Bush’s ethics lawyer, called Sessions’ testimony “a good way to go to jail.”
When your ethics are too sleazy for Dubya’s crew…
My point is we should be used to government being a kleptocracy because that’s all it has been and can be.
I debate politics because there are many victims of state aggression and I would like for there to be less. There are also many benefactors of state violence, like government employees, and I would like for there to be less.
Jason Chaffetz finally finds his spine, calls for Sessions to recuse himself.
Well, okay. Not much of a spine. If he had a spine he’d finally call for an investigation into the Trump-Russia connections. More of a notochord than a spine, really. But we’ll take what we can get.
I was going to open a thread about this, basically, jail time or just resignation? But, this thread is better anyway.
So, if Sessions is forced to resign, does any other administration come close to this level of personnel screw up this early? It took Nixon into his second term before everyone had to resign or be jailed. Are there other, earlier administrations that were like this in terms of corruption and lies?
Who has discretion to prosecute perjury to a Congressional committee? (I’m assuming it’s a crime. It is, right?)