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The Spectacle Continues: Attorney General Jeff Sessions Cancels Appearance before the SIC
by suzie Sunday, Jun 11 2017, 2:31am
international / prose / post

There is no doubt that Jeff Sessions will be another administrative casualty of the Trump administration; losing appointees one by one is one slow and painful way to finally remove Trump, a shameless LIAR and incompetent political dunce, wheeler-dealer. You see men like Trump have no real friends they have opportunists and ‘friends’ they buy. Very soon Trump will be the modern equivalent of the Ancient Mariner, “Water, water everywhere and all the boards did shrink; water, water everywhere nor any drop to drink.” Indeed, Trump would be the sole doomed inhabitant on an ill-fated ship, which he once captained.

AT, Jeff Sessions
AT, Jeff Sessions

Though Trump’s ego and his many pathological personality flaws would not allow him to capitulate without a (futile) fight. It is not beyond possibility that Trump’s incredibly thin administration would see him almost alone in office before his inevitable demise. The creatures of the swamp Trump promised to drain, are slowly eating him alive, and so Trump has only himself to blame for reneging on one of his most important fundamental promises. Trump had the people behind him when he promised to “drain the Washington swamp,” however, by deferring to deep state interests he hoped to survive, but without the people, he has no hope of removing the corrupt rot from the capitol, and so he would soon be that doomed solitary figure on a ship heading for oblivion.

Details of Sessions’ sudden [but not unexpected] cancellation from Rawstory, below:

‘Marked man’ Attorney General Jeff Sessions abruptly cancels public testimony
by David Ferguson

On Saturday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions canceled his scheduled appearance before an open session of the House and Senate appropriations committees set for the coming week.

Think Progress reported that Sessions sent letters to the chairmen of the committees saying that he will send his deputy Rod Rosenstein in his stead. He explained that he was withdrawing from public testimony because he believes members of the committee intend to question him on “issues related to the investigation into Russian interference with the 2016 election.”

Sessions came off particularly badly in last Thursday’s testimony by fired FBI Director James Comey, leading Dan Rather to label him a “marked man.” If Comey is to be believed, Sessions has been under FBI scrutiny for months for his meetings with Russian government officials — meetings that Sessions lied about at his confirmation hearing.

In his testimony, Comey said that he could not go to Sessions with his concerns about President Donald Trump’s attempts to stop the Russia investigation because he knew that Sessions was about to be exposed as acting on the Russian government’s behalf and was therefore not to be trusted.

“Our judgment, as I recall, is that [Sessions] was very close to and inevitably going to recuse himself for a variety of reasons. We also were aware of facts that I can’t discuss in an opening setting that would make his continued engagement in a Russia-related investigation problematic,” Comey said.

It later came out in closed session questioning that Sessions had yet another meeting with Russian ambassador to the U.S. and purported spymaster Sergey Kislyak.

Judd Legum at Think Progress said, “Instead of testifying publicly before the appropriations committees, where these matters could be discussed in the light of day, Sessions will appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee. The Washington Post and USA Today report that Sessions’ appearance is expected to be closed.”

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[And to think, this result so far from largely subjective testimony from Comey and stonewalling by other Intel chiefs, particularly Mike Rogers of the NSA, who arrogantly refused to answer the Senate Committee’s questions.]


 
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