Trump Attorney General Sessions Just Got Slapped With A Lawsuit Over Secret Russian Communications!!! What Do You Think ?
The fact is Attorney General Jeff Session lied during his confirmation hearing before a Senate committee by denying multiple contacts he had while still a Senator with Russian government officials. He also omitted those contacts when he applied for a government security clearance.
Sessions – who had to recuse himself from participation in the Russia election hacking investigation and the Trump campaigns involvement – claimed on May 24 to CNN, through Sarah Isgur Flores, a spokesperson for the Justice Department, that he omitted the meetings with Russians because he was told by the FBI that he did not need to include that vital information.
Trump and Sessions’ credibility is so low that this claim raised questions. So on June 1, Right Wing Watch, a project of the non-profit People For The American Way, submitted a Freedom of Information Request to the Justice Department and FBI for documents or proof that Sessions was in fact given those instructions.
Right Wing Watch applied for expedited handling of its FOIA requests. After that was initially denied, it appealed, and eventually, the group was granted a fast track on July 25.
That gave the FBI about 20 days to respond, but the time period came and went without any response.
So yesterday, People For The American Way (PFAW) filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Washington claiming the FBI is “wrongfully withholding” the information and demanding that it be produced immediately.
“The FBI has acknowledged that Right Wing Watch’s FOIA request is of urgent public importance,” said PFAW President Michael Keegan in a statement, “yet has failed to produce the required documents in the time required by law.”
After omitting his contact with the Russians on his security clearance form and before Congress, Sessions “was forced to backtrack each time when that was shown to be false,” said American Oversight Executive Director Austin Evers. “After that lie, no one should take Jeff Session’s word about what the FBI instructed him, especially where those instructions have directly contradicted the text of the security clearance form itself.”
After omitting his contact with the Russians on his security clearance form and before Congress, Sessions “was forced to backtrack each time when that was shown to be false,” said American Oversight Executive Director Austin Evers. “After that lie, no one should take Jeff Session’s word about what the FBI instructed him, especially where those instructions have directly contradicted the text of the security clearance form itself.”
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