So, I have always found the Guardian to be reliable, one of the great
newspapers world wide for being accurate and careful in what they
write.
And today the Guardian wrote a piece that calls Jeff
Sessions a liar. Still. New. It says that after Sessions met with the
Russian Ambassador at the RNC convention, casually, which appears to be
true, SESSIONS ALSO MET WITH THE RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR PRIVATELY AT THE
RNC, OTHER THAN HIS CASUAL PUBLIC ENCOUNTER,
That makes his explanation
of his failure to admit this to the Senate Confirmation senators'
questions under oath. THIS raises the issue of credible perjury by
Sessions, if it can be proven -- and I would expect it can be proven, if
it is being leaked in this way by Justice.
"According to a justice department official speaking anonymously to the
Washington Post when it first reported the story, the meeting was
casual: Kislyak and other ambassadors approached Sessions after he
finished giving a speech. Sessions then spoke with Kislyak alone, the
official said, citing a former staffer for the senator. To say the
meeting was “set up by the Obama administration” is false."
Further it clarifies that contrary to claims, this was not a meeting set
up by the Obama State Department. What is true is that the US had a
long standing pattern of inviting ambassadors from other countries to
our political conventions as an educational opportunity, organized
through the State Department. No subsequent meetings at the convention
could be characterized as this kind of very public attendance by the
Russian ambassador.
Nowhere do we see this attendance by the
Russian ambassador or anyone in his embassy doing this with Hillary
Clinton and the Democratic convention.
Further, it appears that
Jeff Sessions attended the GOP Convention on the Trump campaign dime,
using campaign donations funding for that trip, not his own $$$ and not
any senate funds to do so. This has been reported by a range of sources,
including the Wall Street Journal and San Francisco Gate:
"The
use of political funds instead of legislative funds is an important
distinction because the Trump administration maintains that Session was
acting only in his role as a then-U.S. senator when he talked to
Kislyak."
This looks like the first sparks of the fire behind the smoke.
https://www.theguardian.com/…/fact-check-trump-obama-wireta…
http://www.sfgate.com/…/Report-Sessions-used-political-fund…
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