CNN reports that Jeff Sessions didn’t report his contacts with the [del]Soviet[/del] Russian Ambassador in his application for security clearance. There was no wiggle room like his lies in the Senate confirmation hearing, it didn’t ask about contacts related to the Trump campaign, he was required to disclose any contacts he or his family had with foreign governments or their representatives.
He’s the freakin’ Attorney General of the United States and he’s a lying bag of shit of the highest order. Ok, maybe second highest. So far.
The thread’s only a bit over a half an hour old. I’m sure that given a little time, somebody will come in and find a way to argue that everything is aboveboard and there is no war in Eurasia.
Better vacuum your house and all jacket pockets thoroughly for marijuana residue before you criticize the little Confederate monkey. He’ll slam you in the federal pen for twenty years.
Well, the question on the form asks for contacts with foreign government officials that are NOT part of authorized US Government business. A senator meeting with an ambassador in his office and talking about policy stuff is clearly not intended to be declared. Session’s meeting with the Russian ambassador at the Republican Convention is arguably a problem, however.
No, that is not correct. If they had talks about routine government business, I think it’s entirely possible that such a meeting should not be reported on the form. If they were talking other matters, it should have been.
Again, the directions specifically say not to report authorized contacts with foreign officials on government business. Based on what I’ve read about this story, the criticism of Sessions on this matter is not justified.
Seriously: do you all think that, say, American ambassadors enter every business meeting with foreign officials on this form?
So, if the Justice Department advises you to break the law, you get a pass? Perhaps we will be further informed just who it was that offered this extraordinary advice?
No, it’s Granny.
As I understand it, lying on security forms is a felony. Who decides to prosecute? It seems to me the proper course of action is immediate resignation.
I can’t imagine that he was conducting Senate business at the RNC. But hey, he already got away with lying to Congress, what’s the State Department after that?
Fuck, you’re stupid sometimes. A government form is not a hearing, just like a banana is not a popsicle. Misleading senators is not nearly in the same ballpark as filling out a form the way the background investigators want you to fill out the form.
Here is part of the instructions for filling out an SF-86:
