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Originally Posted by SEC_Chick
I'm sorry that Franken/Leahy didn't ask the questions you wish they had.
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Unasked (btw, this is a thing Trump does too, offering things they don't have to that get them in trouble) he said he's a surrogate for the campaign and he had no contact with the Russians. That's a lie.
Now, it was the ambassador and it was semi-official, so maybe there's nothing particularly nefarious about the contacts and I'd probably believe him if he just said he forgot about it.
But that's not what he's now saying. He's saying he didn't mention it because it wasn't about the campaign. His story is he intentionally gave a misleading answer.
And, oh, yeah, they did at least briefly mention the campaign.
Regardless, while a surrogate for the Trump campaign, Sessions had contacts with the same Russian official Flynn was talking to. At the very least, that makes him a potential witness in any investigation of the Russia thing who can't be anywhere near the investigation.
If I'm the administration, I'm not sure I want him as a senior official who has to testify to Congress regularly either, but I doubt that this administration cares much whether Congress thinks they are lying.
