Sessions' testimony confirms he's unfit to be US AG

[about_average]

Lost in all the he said/he said of his testimony, Sessions admitted he was unfit to be our chief law enforcement officer.

After becoming AG he never once asked for a briefing on the Russian attempts to influence the 2016 election or the ongoing and future risks to our democratic process.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Oh, my Allah...



How low will they go?

 

[Conager]

Had he asked about average would be calling for his resignation for obstruction of justice


The desperation is quite encouraging.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I thought that he was universally accepted as a new Comey for recusal...

 

[Freudian_Slit]

The apparent lack of interest from administration officials about Russian attempts to influence American campaigns and elections is appalling.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The apparent lack of interest from administration officials about Russian attempts to influence American campaigns and elections is appalling.

What? compared to our meddling in other elections?

Washington DC is the most powerful and richest city in the entire world. It is Rome.

Everyone with a hand out for a handout is trying to influence what goes on in DC and our elections. Currently $3 trillion dollars a year sitting in one spot and if you have ever read any Vonnegut, God Bless You Eliot RoseWater, there are people vying to take a drink at the river of wealth.

Name the fucking country that is not trying to influence the US government and its elections.

 

[Rightguide]

The apparent lack of interest from administration officials about Russian attempts to influence American campaigns and elections is appalling.

Nobody can say what it was, when it happened, and what damage it resulted in. The big question is why didn't Obama, Clapper, Rice, and Brennan, protect us from it? It happened on their watch.

 

[Freudian_Slit]

What? compared to our meddling in other elections?

Washington DC is the most powerful and richest city in the entire world. It is Rome.

Everyone with a hand out for a handout is trying to influence what goes on in DC and our elections. Currently $3 trillion dollars a year sitting in one spot and if you have ever read any Vonnegut, God Bless You Eliot RoseWater, there are people vying to take a drink at the river of wealth.

Name the fucking country that is not trying to influence the US government and its elections.

Washington DC being the most powerful or richest city in the entire world is highly doubtful.

The point isn't that such meddling occurs, or that the US government may be guilty of same. The point is the Trump administration seems singularly uninterested in protecting our electoral process. One might speculate that to act on Russian meddling implies Trump's overwhelming electoral victory wasn't so great, which is why Trump wants to deny the fact of meddling.

 

[Rightguide]

Washington DC being the most powerful or richest city in the entire world is highly doubtful.

The point isn't that such meddling occurs, or that the US government may be guilty of same. The point is the Trump administration seems singularly uninterested in protecting our electoral process. One might speculate that to act on Russian meddling implies Trump's overwhelming electoral victory wasn't so great, which is why Trump wants to deny the fact of meddling.

What was Obama doing while the Russians were "hacking" our election process?

 

[RobDownSouth]

Had he asked about average would be calling for his resignation for obstruction of justice. The desperation is quite encouraging.

#AscriptionAgain

 

[Freudian_Slit]

What was Obama doing while the Russians were "hacking" our election process?

I'm not referring to Obama. You want to talk about Obama, start another thread.

 

[Rightguide]

I'm not referring to Obama. You want to talk about Obama, start another thread.

Fuck you, it happened on his watch, not on Trump's watch.

 

[Freudian_Slit]

Fuck you, it happened on his watch, not on Trump's watch.

C'est la vie.

 

[cjh]

What was Obama doing while the Russians were "hacking" our election process?

[T]he heads of U.S. intelligence agencies issued a joint statement publicly blaming the Russians for the pre-election hack on Oct. 7. “That was an unprecedented statement,” she says, “a fact that sometimes gets lost in this discussion” given that it came on the same day as the revelation of the “Access Hollywood” tape showing Trump joking about sexually assaulting a woman.

But Monaco confirmed in the interview that top White House officials privately objected to a strong statement from Rep. Adam Schiff and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the two top Democrats on the congressional intelligence committees, in September that said Russia was specifically targeting the U.S. elections; they did so, she said, because the statement was “not bipartisan.”

Monaco says that’s because the Obama administration was at the time focused on seeking cooperation for a last-ditch effort by the Department of Homeland Security to avoid Russian tampering in the actual voting process. But the administration, she said, faced a backlash from state and local governments who viewed the DHS cybersecurity election push as “a big federal takeover” and were reluctant to cooperate. That was the case that she, FBI Director James Comey and DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson made in a secret briefing of top members of Congress in the fall, during a session at which Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) reportedly balked at their characterization of the evidence of Russian involvement in the hack.

“Our focus was really to make sure that the election process was not undermined, because here’s the thing: Whatever else was a subject of debate about motive, we knew, and everyone agreed, that one of the goals that Russia had in all of this was to undermine confidence in our democratic process, to sow discord, to sow confusion,” she says. “And so, we were very conscious that we not do their work for them by creating a partisan discussion about this. So, the Schiff and Feinstein statement, I think, one of the concerns was that it was not bipartisan.”

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/obama-russia-hacking-trump-214976

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Washington DC being the most powerful or richest city in the entire world is highly doubtful.

The point isn't that such meddling occurs, or that the US government may be guilty of same. The point is the Trump administration seems singularly uninterested in protecting our electoral process. One might speculate that to act on Russian meddling implies Trump's overwhelming electoral victory wasn't so great, which is why Trump wants to deny the fact of meddling.

Okay, which city is richer?

On the latter, there is still no proof other than there is pretty much no longer an investigation into Russian meddling, which I will concede, as per my prior remarks, probably did happen, but it is not unique and not something that we are also guilty of. The WaPo is now trying to make us believe that the new serious charge is obstruction of justice. I think that will also come up three lemons since on more than one occasion, Trump directed Comey to find malfeasance on the part of his team...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Fuck you, it happened on his watch, not on Trump's watch.

Indeed.

And he did nothing about it until Hillary lost. They were sure that it was a "slam dunk."

 

[about_average]

Had he asked about average would be calling for his resignation for obstruction of justice

You're quite clueless aren't you?

 

[HisArpy]

You're quite clueless aren't you?

Really? So, which scenario do you prefer?

The one where Sessions asks for the file to the investigation and is called on the carpet for conflict of interest?

Or, the one where Sessions recuses himself (because he was part of the Trump campaign and therefore doesn't want to be seen as involving himself in an investigation where he may be a person of interest) so this means you think he's unfit because he's not doing his job?

At some point you dummies have to wake up and realize that what you're saying is nonsensical.

 

[Rightguide]

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/obama-russia-hacking-trump-214976

In other words, they did nothing to prevent Russian hacking. Maybe they should have done something meaningful, like shutting down their access to credit markets or something a bit more devastating. Obama had these tools available but did nothing:


NEWS
NOV 4 2016, 7:15 PM ET
U.S. Govt. Hackers Ready to Hit Back If Russia Tries to Disrupt Election
by KEN DILANIAN, WILLIAM M. ARKIN, CYNTHIA MCFADDEN and ROBERT WINDREM

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-hackers-ready-hit-back-if-russia-disrupts-election-n677936

 

[Hard_Rom]

How Sessions, evading Senate questions, used presidential privilege without actually invoking it
U.S. attorney general reveals little, using 'very unusual legal argument'

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/jeff-sessions-stonewalling-executive-privilege-1.4159421

His right hand raised before the Senate intelligence committee, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions stood to face a flurry of camera clicks and swore to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but.

Then the apple-cheeked Alabamanian sat down and proceeded to deflect a barrage of questions — about President Donald Trump, about alleged campaign collusion with the Russians and about the firing of former FBI director James Comey — during almost two-and-a-half hours of testimony on Tuesday.

He didn't need the president's executive privilege to do it, either.

 

[cjh]

In other words, they did nothing to prevent Russian hacking. Maybe they should have done something meaningful, like shutting down their access to credit markets or something a bit more devastating. Obama had these tools available but did nothing:


NEWS
NOV 4 2016, 7:15 PM ET
U.S. Govt. Hackers Ready to Hit Back If Russia Tries to Disrupt Election
by KEN DILANIAN, WILLIAM M. ARKIN, CYNTHIA MCFADDEN and ROBERT WINDREM

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-hackers-ready-hit-back-if-russia-disrupts-election-n677936

Maybe.

Or maybe a bipartisan effort would have prevented efforts from being perceived as an executive attempt to interfere with the election and alleviated state and local fears that big government was usurping their roles.

 

[about_average]

What was Obama doing while the Russians were "hacking" our election process?

Congress makes the laws.
The correct question is, "What was Congress doing to ensure companies and states make sure we have secure election systems?"

Really? So, which scenario do you prefer?

The one where Sessions asks for the file to the investigation and is called on the carpet for conflict of interest?

Or, the one where Sessions recuses himself (because he was part of the Trump campaign and therefore doesn't want to be seen as involving himself in an investigation where he may be a person of interest) so this means you think he's unfit because he's not doing his job?

At some point you dummies have to wake up and realize that what you're saying is nonsensical.

Unfit because he expressed no interest in what the Russians did and are doing.
Just like I said in the OP. You're as clueless as Connie.

 

[jaF0]

Jefferson Beauregard is unfit to be anything but a Soda Jerk.


And you can probably leave the 'soda' bit out too.

 

[about_average]

How Sessions, evading Senate questions, used presidential privilege without actually invoking it
U.S. attorney general reveals little, using 'very unusual legal argument'

I didn't really expect anything useful to come from his testimony, but the bombshell referred to in the OP was actually shocking. Especially because it's something he publicly said under oath about himself.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Russia did not hack the election process! What part of that simple statement is so fucking difficult to grasp. They influenced public opinion of a candidate by hacking that candidate's party's e-mails. They did not hack vote counting computers and equipment. They unduly helped in creating distrust in an American politician. They did not hack the election process.

I swear the RWCJerkers around here have some form of dyslexia!