{"id":180319,"date":"2017-05-24T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/05\/24\/oh-snap-26\/"},"modified":"2017-05-24T18:05:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T23:05:00","slug":"oh-snap-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/05\/24\/oh-snap-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh Snap!"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>It appears that everyone’s favorite racist nut-job, Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, lied on his security clearance forms<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Attorney General Jeff Sessions did not reveal meetings with Russian officials when he applied for his security clearance to serve as the nation\u2019s highest-ranking law enforcement official.<\/span>

<\/span>Sessions came under fire earlier this year for not disclosing to the Senate Judiciary Committee during his confirmation hearing that, as the senator from Alabama, he met twice with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the presidential election when he was also serving as an adviser to the president. In March, Sessions recused himself from investigations related to the 2016 presidential campaign after The Washington Post reported the two meetings.<\/span>

<\/span>That same information was omitted from Sessions\u2019s security clearance form, which is known as an SF-86, as first reported Wednesday night by CNN.<\/span>

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<\/span>The security clearance form requires anyone applying for a security clearance to list \u201cany contact\u201d that he or his family had with a foreign government or its representatives over the past seven years.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

His spokesmen are claiming that the FBI told him that he didn’t have to list the contacts, which is not what the law says.<\/p>\n

There does appear to be an exception for contacts at foreign conferences as a part of government business<\/a>, but none of Sessions fall under that exception:<\/p>\n

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<\/span>A legal expert who regularly assists officials in filling out the form disagrees with the Justice Department’s explanation, suggesting that Sessions should have disclosed the meetings.<\/span>

<\/span>“My interpretation is that a member of Congress would still have to reveal the appropriate foreign government contacts notwithstanding it was on official business,” said Mark Zaid, a Washington attorney who specializes in national security law.<\/span>
Zaid added that in a similar circumstance he advised a member of Congress to list all foreign contacts — including those made during official US government business.<\/span>

<\/span>To obtain a security clearance, a federal official is not required to list the meetings if they were part of a foreign conference he or she attended while conducting government business. Sessions’ meetings, however, do not appear to be tied to foreign conferences.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jeff Sessions has been a cancer on the American political scene for decades.<\/p>\n

One hopes that he won’t weasel out of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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