Papadopoulos plea deal has opened up Jeff Sessions to perjury charges

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The nation's top law enforcement guy up on perjury charges? Awkward...whaddya mean "opened up Jeff Sessions to perjury charges," we already KNOW that little gnome lied under oath already, it's just that his Senate homies didn't wanna drop the hammer on him. Maybe this will give them a little backbone...

Papadopoulos plea deal has opened up Jeff Sessions to perjury charges


By Frank Vyan Walton
Wednesday Nov 01, 2017 · 12:03 PM PDT


As we all know Jefferson Beuregard Sessions III has repeated stated under oath that he had no knowledge of “anyone in the Trump campaign being in contact with Russians” but that — on top of the fact that he had personally met Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak twice which he claimed was not related to his position as a member of the campaign or a surrogate — was a big giant lie.

it would, if he committed perjury

and Jeff Sessions could be charged with murder, if he murdered somebody

silly naive libtarded wishful thinking ain't going to make it happen, it's just setting themselves up for yet another disappointment

sales of comfort dogs about to surge again

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haha, meets all the qualifications of an idiot AND an asshole

a lethal combination




PS: another dude that obviously has a lot of time on his hands

Willie99 said:

it would, if he committed perjury

and Jeff Sessions could be charged with murder, if he murdered somebody

silly naive libtarded wishful thinking ain't going to make it happen, it's just setting themselves up for yet another disappointment

sales of comfort dogs about to surge again

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Like I said, he has already committed perjury-you right wing whack jobs sometimes seem to forget that video tape exists-when he said he had no contact at all with Russians, when he did-at least twice. But your head is shoved so far up your ass you can taste Brylcreem, so, of course, you're gonna deny it. You're stupid enough to think that the 3 indictments revealed by Muelller aren't significant, 'nuff said

Dafinch said:

Like I said, he has already committed perjury-you right wing whack jobs sometimes seem to forget that video tape exists-when he said he had no contact at all with Russians, when he did-at least twice. But your head is shoved so far up your ass you can taste Brylcreem, so, of course, you're gonna deny it. You're stupid enough to think that the 3 indictments revealed by Muelller aren't significant, 'nuff said

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Why did you leave out the transcript? Doesnt push your narrative? Or Dailykos didnt reveal the truth, and you just buy whatever it is they are selling? lmao

Oct. 18, 2017

Franken: “Now, was that what you’re saying that you still — you don’t believe that surrogates from the Trump campaign had communications with the Russians? Is that what you’re saying?”

Sessions: “I did not, and I’m not aware of anyone else that did, and I don’t believe it happened.”

Franken: “And you don’t believe it now?”

Sessions: “I don’t believe it happened.”

NFLTrends said:

Why did you leave out the transcript? Doesnt push your narrative? Or Dailykos didnt reveal the truth, and you just buy whatever it is they are selling? lmao

Oct. 18, 2017

Franken: “Now, was that what you’re saying that you still — you don’t believe that surrogates from the Trump campaign had communications with the Russians? Is that what you’re saying?”

Sessions: “I did not, and I’m not aware of anyone else that did, and I don’t believe it happened.”

Franken: “And you don’t believe it now?”

Sessions: “I don’t believe it happened.”

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just shows how stupid they are, seriously

"The March 31 comments by this Papadopoulos person did not leave a lasting impression,"... "As far as Sessions seemed to be concerned, when he shut down this idea of Papadopoulos engaging with Russia, that was the end of it, and he moved the meeting along to other issues.

"Papadopoulos was some 29-year old that nobody had ever heard of and who struck people in the room as someone who didn't have a lot of credibility."


A widely circulated photo this week showed a Trump campaign meeting with Trump at one end of a conference table, Sessions at the other, and several campaign aides and advisers seated. Papadopoulos was situated four seats down from Trump.

Papadopoulos, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and Manafort's business associate Rick Gates have all been indicted on a variety federal charges.

Sessions originally testified that he had no contacts with any Russian officials during the 2016 election
on behalf of the Trump Campaign, although he later admitted that he met with former Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in his capacity as a senator.

Seems DaFinch is mentally inept at distinguishing "On behalf of the Trump Campaign" and as someones job as a senator.

How come all you clowns carefully avoid addressing that fact that this is at least the third time that Beauregard has changed his story when it comes to Russia? Why am I even bothering to ask?

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/02/politics/jeff-sessions-congress-russia-trump-campaign/index.html[h=1]Sessions under renewed scrutiny on Capitol Hill[/h]By Manu Raju, Evan Perez and Marshall Cohen, CNNUpdated 12:51 PM ET, Thu November 2, 2017


Washington (CNN)Attorney General Jeff Sessions is once again under scrutiny on Capitol Hill regarding his candor about Russia and the Trump campaign amid revelations that he rejected a suggestion to convene a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump last year.

According to court filings unsealed this week, Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos suggested at a March 2016 meeting that he could use his connections to set up a meeting between Putin and Trump with the then-GOP candidate's national security team. An Instagram picture on Trump's account shows Sessions attended the meeting at which Papadopoulos made the suggestion.

After Trump declined to rule out the idea, Sessions weighed in and rejected the proposed meeting, according to a person who attended.
But Sessions, who was a top surrogate for Trump during the campaign, did not disclose these discussions despite a persistent set of questions from Democrats and some Republicans about Russia during multiple hearings on Capitol Hill. The new information is renewing attention to how forthcoming Sessions has been with Congress.

There is interest from Democrats on both the Senate intelligence and judiciary committees for Sessions to formally clarify his remarks made before both committees given what's now known about his interactions with Papadopoulos, a Senate aide told CNN. The source said the request for clarification could take several forms, such as having Sessions testify again or submitting a clarification in writing, but that has not yet been determined.
On Wednesday, lawmakers from both parties said Sessions needs to explain the discrepancies. And Democrats were sharply critical.
"Jeff Sessions concealed his meetings with the Russians and he had an obligation to be more forthcoming about meetings that involved Papadopoulos," said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat who sits on the Senate judiciary committee.
Sen. Martin Heinrich, a New Mexico Democrat who sits on the Senate intelligence committee, said that despite Sessions' testimony before the panel earlier this year, "it turns out he was at this meeting with George Papadopoulos. Papadopoulos proposed meeting with Putin and Trump. He didn't disclose that to the committee."
Heinrich added it calls into question "whether he is being honest and forthright with the committee and what does that mean for the highest law enforcement officer in the country?"
Sen. John Cornyn, the No. 2 in Republican leadership who serves on the intelligence and judiciary panels, said he was unaware of Sessions' attendance at that meeting until now.
He added: "I certainly think it's a legitimate area of inquiry" for lawmakers to pursue.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley said Thursday he was still learning all the details about the Papadopoulos matter.
Asked if Sessions should amend his testimony before his committee, Grassley told CNN: "I'm looking into it."
The Justice Department did not comment.
But a source familiar with Sessions' thinking pointed out that others in the room recall that Sessions "shut down" talk of a Putin meeting and that Papadopoulos "didn't have a lot of credibility." The conversation moved on to other topics and Papadopoulos did not leave a "lasting impression" with Sessions, the source said.
The source added that Sessions "has no clear recollection" of Papadopoulos and any further interactions with him, even though two were seated next to each other at a second meeting of Trump's foreign policy team at the Capitol Hill Club steps from the House.



"The attorney general has been entirely truthful and consistent on this matter," the source said, referring to Sessions' testimony before Congress where he rejected the notion of meetings and interactions with Russians during the campaign season.
At his Senate confirmation hearing in January, Sessions denied any contacts with Russian officials during the presidential campaign. He later acknowledged that he met then-Russian ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak twice during the campaign. He also testified that he was "not aware" of anyone affiliated with the Trump campaign communicating with the Russians.
Sessions testified in June that he wasn't aware of any conversations between "anyone connected to the Trump campaign" and Russians about "any type of interference with any campaign or election in the United States."
He also testified that he does not remember meeting Kislyak during a VIP reception before an April 2016 campaign event at the Mayflower Hotel, though he acknowledged Kislyak was in the room. Also there were Trump and his son-in-law and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner. In testimony submitted to Capitol Hill investigators, Kushner said he "shook hands" and "exchanged brief pleasantries" with Kislyak.

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Donald Trump's continued denials of Russian collusion 01:30



Asked under oath at a Senate hearing last month if he believed Trump campaign surrogates had communications with Russians, Sessions replied, "I did not and I'm not aware of anyone else that did, and I don't believe it happened."
It is a crime to lie under oath to Congress. Sessions says that his answers were truthful because his meetings with Kislyak weren't specifically about the campaign. At least two Democratic members of the Senate judiciary committee, Al Franken of Minnesota and Patrick Leahy of Vermont, have asked the FBI to investigate whether Sessions committed perjury during his confirmation hearings.
At the Senate judiciary hearing last month, Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, asked Sessions: "Did anybody in the campaign, did you ever overhear a conversation between you and anybody on the campaign who talked about meeting with the Russians?"
Sessions replied, "I have not seen anything that would indicate collusion with the Russians to impact the campaign."
On Wednesday, Democrats said Sessions needs to clarify his comments.
"I was very troubled by Attorney General Sessions comments overall," said Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee.
CNN's Jeremy Herb contributed to this report.

Dafinch said:

How come all you clowns carefully avoid addressing that fact that this is at least the third time that Beauregard has changed his story when it comes to Russia? Why am I even bothering to ask?

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/02/politics/jeff-sessions-congress-russia-trump-campaign/index.html[h=1]Sessions under renewed scrutiny on Capitol Hill[/h]By Manu Raju, Evan Perez and Marshall Cohen, CNNUpdated 12:51 PM ET, Thu November 2, 2017


Washington (CNN)Attorney General Jeff Sessions is once again under scrutiny on Capitol Hill regarding his candor about Russia and the Trump campaign amid revelations that he rejected a suggestion to convene a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump last year.

According to court filings unsealed this week, Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos suggested at a March 2016 meeting that he could use his connections to set up a meeting between Putin and Trump with the then-GOP candidate's national security team. An Instagram picture on Trump's account shows Sessions attended the meeting at which Papadopoulos made the suggestion.

After Trump declined to rule out the idea, Sessions weighed in and rejected the proposed meeting, according to a person who attended.
But Sessions, who was a top surrogate for Trump during the campaign, did not disclose these discussions despite a persistent set of questions from Democrats and some Republicans about Russia during multiple hearings on Capitol Hill. The new information is renewing attention to how forthcoming Sessions has been with Congress.

There is interest from Democrats on both the Senate intelligence and judiciary committees for Sessions to formally clarify his remarks made before both committees given what's now known about his interactions with Papadopoulos, a Senate aide told CNN. The source said the request for clarification could take several forms, such as having Sessions testify again or submitting a clarification in writing, but that has not yet been determined.
On Wednesday, lawmakers from both parties said Sessions needs to explain the discrepancies. And Democrats were sharply critical.
"Jeff Sessions concealed his meetings with the Russians and he had an obligation to be more forthcoming about meetings that involved Papadopoulos," said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat who sits on the Senate judiciary committee.
Sen. Martin Heinrich, a New Mexico Democrat who sits on the Senate intelligence committee, said that despite Sessions' testimony before the panel earlier this year, "it turns out he was at this meeting with George Papadopoulos. Papadopoulos proposed meeting with Putin and Trump. He didn't disclose that to the committee."
Heinrich added it calls into question "whether he is being honest and forthright with the committee and what does that mean for the highest law enforcement officer in the country?"
Sen. John Cornyn, the No. 2 in Republican leadership who serves on the intelligence and judiciary panels, said he was unaware of Sessions' attendance at that meeting until now.
He added: "I certainly think it's a legitimate area of inquiry" for lawmakers to pursue.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley said Thursday he was still learning all the details about the Papadopoulos matter.
Asked if Sessions should amend his testimony before his committee, Grassley told CNN: "I'm looking into it."
The Justice Department did not comment.
But a source familiar with Sessions' thinking pointed out that others in the room recall that Sessions "shut down" talk of a Putin meeting and that Papadopoulos "didn't have a lot of credibility." The conversation moved on to other topics and Papadopoulos did not leave a "lasting impression" with Sessions, the source said.
The source added that Sessions "has no clear recollection" of Papadopoulos and any further interactions with him, even though two were seated next to each other at a second meeting of Trump's foreign policy team at the Capitol Hill Club steps from the House.



"The attorney general has been entirely truthful and consistent on this matter," the source said, referring to Sessions' testimony before Congress where he rejected the notion of meetings and interactions with Russians during the campaign season.
At his Senate confirmation hearing in January, Sessions denied any contacts with Russian officials during the presidential campaign. He later acknowledged that he met then-Russian ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak twice during the campaign. He also testified that he was "not aware" of anyone affiliated with the Trump campaign communicating with the Russians.
Sessions testified in June that he wasn't aware of any conversations between "anyone connected to the Trump campaign" and Russians about "any type of interference with any campaign or election in the United States."
He also testified that he does not remember meeting Kislyak during a VIP reception before an April 2016 campaign event at the Mayflower Hotel, though he acknowledged Kislyak was in the room. Also there were Trump and his son-in-law and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner. In testimony submitted to Capitol Hill investigators, Kushner said he "shook hands" and "exchanged brief pleasantries" with Kislyak.

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Donald Trump's continued denials of Russian collusion 01:30



Asked under oath at a Senate hearing last month if he believed Trump campaign surrogates had communications with Russians, Sessions replied, "I did not and I'm not aware of anyone else that did, and I don't believe it happened."
It is a crime to lie under oath to Congress. Sessions says that his answers were truthful because his meetings with Kislyak weren't specifically about the campaign. At least two Democratic members of the Senate judiciary committee, Al Franken of Minnesota and Patrick Leahy of Vermont, have asked the FBI to investigate whether Sessions committed perjury during his confirmation hearings.
At the Senate judiciary hearing last month, Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, asked Sessions: "Did anybody in the campaign, did you ever overhear a conversation between you and anybody on the campaign who talked about meeting with the Russians?"
Sessions replied, "I have not seen anything that would indicate collusion with the Russians to impact the campaign."
On Wednesday, Democrats said Sessions needs to clarify his comments.
"I was very troubled by Attorney General Sessions comments overall," said Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee.
CNN's Jeremy Herb contributed to this report.

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Ok... POST the testimony and actually RESEARCH on your own, instead of spewing what the media distorts and tells you.

First hearing. Watch for the key words when asked if he had any meetings with Russians during the election. (Hint: it involves the campaign and election, and not his job as senator)

Sessions: "I have never met with or had any conversations with any Russians or any foreign officials concerning any type of interference with any campaign or election in the United States"

DaFinch; "HE LIED!!! HE HAD MET WITH RUSSIANS"... Ummmm he might have, but as part of his job as Senator and part of the Senate committee he was on. BUT, this was about the election and campaign and NOT as part of his job as Senator or as part of his Senate Committee.

Try again, Short Eyes:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...proposal-campaign-adviser-source-says-n817001 Sessions Rejected Russian Proposal by Campaign Adviser, Source Says

by Ken Dilanian and Carol E. Lee

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions rejected a proposal by a junior campaign aide who offered to use his "Russian contacts" to try to set up a meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, a source familiar with the matter told NBC News.
The aide, George Papadopoulos, has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, and documents released Monday show he was in contact with Russians who offered him "dirt" on Hillary Clinton — including thousands of emails.
This new revelation is significant because Sessions told Congress under oath in June that he had "no knowledge" of any conversations by anyone connected to the Trump campaign about "any type of interference with any campaign" by Russians.


Congressional investigators want to question Sessions about the new disclosures and his new recollection, multiple Congressional officials told NBC News. Both the judiciary and the intelligence committees have an interest in doing so, the officials said.
The meeting at which Papadopoulos floated the idea of Trump sitting down with Putin occurred March 31, and Sessions can be seen in a photo sitting at the head of the table. At the other end was Trump.
"The March 31 comments by this Papadopoulos person did not leave a lasting impression," said the person familiar with Sessions' views. "As far as Sessions seemed to be concerned, when he shut down this idea of Papadopoulos engaging with Russia, that was the end of it and he moved the meeting along to other issues."
The source added, "Papadopoulos was some 29-year old that nobody had ever heard of and who struck people in the room as someone who didn't have a lot of credibility."
The source said Sessions was not aware that Papadopoulos had been offered "dirt" on Clinton or emails.


At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Oct. 18, Sen. Lindsey Graham asked Sessions: "Did you ever overhear a conversation between you and anybody on the campaign who talked about meeting with the Russians?"
Sessions replied, "I have not seen anything that would indicate collusion with Russians to impact the campaign."
Sessions previously came under fire for failing to disclose two contacts with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak — in May and September 2016 — when he said during his Senate confirmation hearing that he had not met with Russian officials while part of the Trump campaign.
Some Democrats accused him of having committed perjury, a charge he has rejected.
In a letter to Sessions on Thursday, Sen. Al Franken, the Minnesota Democrat, accused him of failing "to tell the truth about your interactions with Russian operatives during the campaign."
Franken added, “This is another example in an alarming pattern in which you, the nation’s top law enforcement officer, apparently failed to tell the truth, under oath, about the Trump team’s contacts with agents of Russia—a hostile foreign power that interfered in the 2016 election."
Sessions' spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the Franken lette

Dafinch said:

Try again, Short Eyes:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...proposal-campaign-adviser-source-says-n817001 Sessions Rejected Russian Proposal by Campaign Adviser, Source Says

by Ken Dilanian and Carol E. Lee

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions rejected a proposal by a junior campaign aide who offered to use his "Russian contacts" to try to set up a meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, a source familiar with the matter told NBC News.
The aide, George Papadopoulos, has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, and documents released Monday show he was in contact with Russians who offered him "dirt" on Hillary Clinton — including thousands of emails.
This new revelation is significant because Sessions told Congress under oath in June that he had "no knowledge" of any conversations by anyone connected to the Trump campaign about "any type of interference with any campaign" by Russians.


Congressional investigators want to question Sessions about the new disclosures and his new recollection, multiple Congressional officials told NBC News. Both the judiciary and the intelligence committees have an interest in doing so, the officials said.
The meeting at which Papadopoulos floated the idea of Trump sitting down with Putin occurred March 31, and Sessions can be seen in a photo sitting at the head of the table. At the other end was Trump.
"The March 31 comments by this Papadopoulos person did not leave a lasting impression," said the person familiar with Sessions' views. "As far as Sessions seemed to be concerned, when he shut down this idea of Papadopoulos engaging with Russia, that was the end of it and he moved the meeting along to other issues."
The source added, "Papadopoulos was some 29-year old that nobody had ever heard of and who struck people in the room as someone who didn't have a lot of credibility."
The source said Sessions was not aware that Papadopoulos had been offered "dirt" on Clinton or emails.


At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Oct. 18, Sen. Lindsey Graham asked Sessions: "Did you ever overhear a conversation between you and anybody on the campaign who talked about meeting with the Russians?"
Sessions replied, "I have not seen anything that would indicate collusion with Russians to impact the campaign."
Sessions previously came under fire for failing to disclose two contacts with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak — in May and September 2016 — when he said during his Senate confirmation hearing that he had not met with Russian officials while part of the Trump campaign.
Some Democrats accused him of having committed perjury, a charge he has rejected.
In a letter to Sessions on Thursday, Sen. Al Franken, the Minnesota Democrat, accused him of failing "to tell the truth about your interactions with Russian operatives during the campaign."
Franken added, “This is another example in an alarming pattern in which you, the nation’s top law enforcement officer, apparently failed to tell the truth, under oath, about the Trump team’s contacts with agents of Russia—a hostile foreign power that interfered in the 2016 election."
Sessions' spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the Franken lette

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Read the title... and no need to go further...

Who said that?? Oh yeah "A Source" lmao......

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/us/politics/trump-jeff-sessions-russia.html

Hey, 'ole Beauregard was afraid that the Russian scam might leak, and, for once, he got it right, ROTFLMAO!!!
[h=1]Trump and Sessions Denied Knowing About Russian Contacts. Records Suggest Otherwise.[/h] By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT, MATT APUZZO and SCOTT SHANENOV. 2, 2017


WASHINGTON — Standing before reporters in February, President Trump said unequivocally that he knew of nobody from his campaign who was in contact with Russians during the election. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has told the Senate the same thing.
Court documents unsealed this week cast doubt on both statements and raised the possibility that Mr. Sessions could be called back to Congress for further questioning.
The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, unsealed his first charges Monday in a wide-ranging investigation into Russian attempts to disrupt the presidential election and whether anyone close to Mr. Trump was involved. Records in that case show that George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy adviser, had frequent discussions with Russians in 2016 and trumpeted his connections in front of Mr. Trump and Mr. Sessions.
For months, journalists have revealed evidence that associates of Mr. Trump met with Russians during the campaign and the presidential transition. But the court documents represent the first concrete evidence that Mr. Trump was personally told about ties between a campaign adviser and Russian officials.

At a March 31, 2016, meeting between Mr. Trump and his foreign policy team, Mr. Papadopoulos introduced himself and said “that he had connections that could help arrange a meeting between then-candidate Trump and President Putin,” according to court records.


“He went into the pitch right away,” said J. D. Gordon, a campaign adviser who attended the meeting. “He said he had a friend in London, the Russian ambassador, who could help set up a meeting with Putin.”
Mr. Trump listened with interest. Mr. Sessions vehemently opposed the idea, Mr. Gordon recalled. “And he said that no one should talk about it because it might leak,” he said.
Several of Mr. Trump’s campaign advisers attended the March 2016 meeting, and at least two of those advisers are now in the White House: Hope Hicks, the communications director, and Stephen Miller, a senior policy adviser.
After Mr. Trump was sworn in, he could not escape questions about Russia. At a Feb. 16, 2017, White House news conference, a reporter asked Mr. Trump, “Can you say whether you are aware that anyone who advised your campaign had contacts with Russia during the course of the election?”
“No,” Mr. Trump said. “Nobody that I know of. Nobody.”
The White House has sought to portray Mr. Papadopoulos as an insignificant figure in the campaign.

Ty Cobb, the White House lawyer dealing with matters related to Mr. Mueller’s investigation, said the White House stood behind the president’s comments.
“The media’s willingness to inflate Papadopoulos, a young unpaid volunteer and supposed energy expert, into an important thought leader in the campaign or Russian operative is ludicrous,” Mr. Cobb said. “The evidence so far suggests he attended one meeting, said something about Russia and was immediately shut down by everyone in the room. It’s very important to remember that he is not a criminal now because of anything he did for the campaign — he is a criminal because he initially lied to the F.B.I.”
A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment.
Another member of the foreign policy team, Carter Page, said on Thursday that he told Mr. Sessions in passing in June 2016 that he planned to travel to Russia for a trip “completely unrelated” to his volunteer role in the campaign. “Understandably, it was as irrelevant then as it is now,” Mr. Page said. Mr. Page traveled twice to Russia in 2016.
Democrats in the Senate said on Thursday that they would push to have Mr. Sessions return to the Judiciary Committee for further questioning.


“He now needs to come back before the committee, in person, under oath, to explain why he cannot seem to provide truthful, complete answers to these important and relevant questions,” said Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, who is on the Judiciary Committee.
Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, another Democrat on the committee, pointed out that Mr. Sessions’s testimony was under oath and “wasn’t just some random comment he made in passing on the street.”
Mr. Sessions faced similar questions in January before the Senate Judiciary Committee, when Senator Al Franken, Democrat of Minnesota, asked him about contacts between the campaign and Russia. “I’m not aware of any of those activities,” Mr. Sessions said. He denied having any such contacts himself.
Democrats condemned those remarks as misleading when it was revealed that Mr. Sessions held meetings with the Russian ambassador during the campaign. Last month, Mr. Franken renewed his questioning.
“You don’t believe that surrogates from the Trump campaign had communications with the Russians?” he asked.


“I did not, and I’m not aware of anyone else that did,” Mr. Sessions replied. “And I don’t believe it happened.”
He did not make any reference to Mr. Papadopoulos. Mr. Sessions has said he answered honestly because he was being questioned in the context of Russian officials continuously exchanging information with campaign advisers.
Mr. Gordon said that while the March 2016 meeting technically contradicted Mr. Sessions’s testimony, he defended the attorney general.
“This is something he heard way back in March from some young man who was not authorized to speak for the campaign,” he said. “I don’t blame Senator Sessions for not remembering that.” He said that only in the political “gotcha game” could the matter be considered significant.
The court documents in the Papadopoulos case represent the most explicit evidence yet that Mr. Trump’s campaign was eager to coordinate with Russian officials to undermine his rival, Hillary Clinton. Federal investigators suspected that Russian intelligence services used intermediaries to contact Mr. Papadopoulos to gain influence with the campaign, offering “dirt” on Mrs. Clinton in the form of “thousands of emails.” Mr. Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying about those contacts and is cooperating with the F.B.I.

On Thursday, as news of Mr. Papadopoulos’s Russian ties continued to ripple through Washington, Mr. Franken sent a stern letter to Mr. Sessions. “This is another example in an alarming pattern in which you, the nation’s top law enforcement official, apparently failed to tell the truth, under oath,” he wrote.
The case against Mr. Papadopoulos was unsealed at the same time as an unrelated indictment against two other former campaign advisers, Paul J. Manafort and Rick Gates. Taken together, the three charges sent a foreboding message to a fourth adviser to Mr. Trump’s campaign, Michael T. Flynn.
White House officials and others in the case are bracing for charges against Mr. Flynn, a retired three-star general who had a short and tumultuous tenure as national security adviser. Mr. Mueller is investigating Mr. Flynn for not disclosing his Russian contacts or his foreign lobbying work.
Mr. Manafort was indicted on seldom-used charges of concealing foreign lobbying, as well as for lying on federal documents — the same activities for which Mr. Flynn is being investigated.

“It’s a bad sign,” said Paul Krieger, who until recently was the top federal fraud prosecutor in Manhattan. “It shows that the special counsel’s office will not hesitate to charge individuals connected to the administration or campaign with obstruction-like offenses.”
Mr. Flynn, one of the architects of Mr. Trump’s “America first” foreign policy, did not disclose payments from Russia-linked entities on financial disclosure documents. He did not mention a paid speech he gave in Moscow, and he belatedly disclosed, after leaving the White House, that the Turkish government had paid him more than $500,000 for lobbying services.
Charging people for not disclosing their foreign lobbying is extremely rare, a point that Mr. Manafort’s lawyers made in documents filed in court on Thursday. Since 1966, his lawyers wrote, only six such cases have been filed and only one person has been convicted. Such violations are typically handled administratively.
“It is far from clear what activity triggers a requirement to file a report as a foreign agent,” said Kevin M. Downing, Mr. Manafort’s lawyer.
Mr. Manafort and Mr. Gates appeared in court briefly on Thursday. Lawyers discussed the conditions of their house arrest and the possibility of a trial in April.

White House officials have long been anticipating the indictments of Mr. Manafort and Mr. Flynn, and have tried to distance themselves from both men. They were caught by surprise, however, by Mr. Papadopoulos’s guilty plea and the fact that he had been cooperating with the F.B.I. since July.
That cooperation agreement fueled speculation that Mr. Papadopoulos had secretly recorded his conversations with White House officials this summer. But Mr. Cobb said he had seen no evidence that Mr. Papadopoulos had visited the White House or had recent conversations with staff members.
“We have no indication that this George Papadopoulos came to this White House,” Mr. Cobb said, adding that a different person with the same name had entered the White House this year.
Court documents do not explain the extent of Mr. Papadopoulos’s cooperation with Mr. Mueller’s investigation, but prosecutors said they showed him emails, chat transcripts, text messages and other records “in an attempt to refresh his recollection” about his contacts with Russians and with members of the Trump campaign.

NFLTrends said:

Read the title... and no need to go further...

Who said that?? Oh yeah "A Source" lmao......

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Who gives a shit about whether you read it or no, schmuck? "A source" said that indictments were coming last week, remind me, how'd that turn out again?:think2::hahahahahLoser!@#0^^

Dafinch said:

Who gives a shit about whether you read it or no, schmuck? "A source" said that indictments were coming last week, remind me, how'd that turn out again?:think2::hahahahahLoser!@#0^^

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Remind me WHICH of those indictments had anything to do with Trump and RUSSIAN collusion?

NFLTrends said:

Remind me WHICH of those indictments had anything to do with Trump and RUSSIAN collusion?

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You can ask that question 100 times, asshole, just like you did about how can you get consent from a woman before raping her? Read Papadop's plea deal, moron.

Dafinch said:

You can ask that question 100 times, asshole, just like you did about how can you get consent from a woman before raping her? Read Papadop's plea deal, moron.

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Plea deal shows NO Trump and Russian collusion...

Thats why you cant point to any... and WHY you wont take a bet

your idiocy grows and grows

NFLTrends said:

Why did you leave out the transcript? Doesnt push your narrative? Or Dailykos didnt reveal the truth, and you just buy whatever it is they are selling? lmao

Oct. 18, 2017

Franken: “Now, was that what you’re saying that you still — you don’t believe that surrogates from the Trump campaign had communications with the Russians? Is that what you’re saying?”

Sessions: “I did not, and I’m not aware of anyone else that did, and I don’t believe it happened.”

Franken: “And you don’t believe it now?”

Sessions: “I don’t believe it happened.”

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As usual, you show yourself to be a steaming, fly infested sack of shit, anybody could easily figure out that you tried to cherry pick to prove your point, but you're about as subtle as a meat cleaver. In point of fact, Franken tore that lying little redneck a new asshole, as Franken's site shows-and, the fact that Sessions is going to be asked back, yet again, for "clarification" of his every changing story to Congress would indicate to any sensible person(which, of course, excludes YOU, nitwit) that he, like that goofy moron Carter Page(who is already taking the 5th to certain requests, lol, THAT always screams "Innocence!" doesn't it, Dickwad?) is rapidly talking himself into trouble. And, sooner or later, we're gonna have the Great Spectacle of Mueller grilling his "bosses," Sessions and Twittler. Those two are the worst liars this side of Paul Manafort, and, it's gonna be fun to see. popcorn-eatinggif:nohead:ope:

https://www.franken.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=3798