{"id":180603,"date":"2017-03-02T20:03:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T01:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/03\/02\/lessons-not-learned\/"},"modified":"2017-03-02T20:03:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T01:03:00","slug":"lessons-not-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/03\/02\/lessons-not-learned\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons Not Learned"},"content":{"rendered":"

Specifically, the old saying that, “It ain’t the crime, it’s the coverup<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

It appears that one Jefferson Beauregard Sessions has not learned this lesson:<\/p>\n

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Thursday that he will recuse himself from investigations related to the 2016 presidential campaign, which would include any Russian interference in the electoral process.<\/span>

<\/span> Speaking at a hastily called news conference at the Justice Department, Sessions said he was following the recommendation of department ethics officials after an evaluation of the rules and cases in which he might have a conflict.<\/span>

<\/span> \u201cThey said that since I had involvement with the campaign, I should not be involved in any campaign investigation,\u201d Sessions said. He added that he concurred with their assessment and would thus recuse himself from any existing or future investigation involving President Trump\u2019s 2016 campaign.<\/span>

<\/span> The announcement comes a day after The Washington Post revealed that Sessions twice met with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the campaign and did not disclose that to the Senate Judiciary Committee during his confirmation hearing in January<\/span><\/b>. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(emphasis mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n

“Did not disclose,” is pretty mealy mouthed. Session explicitly denied any contact with Russian officials at the hearing.<\/p>\n

Of course, IOKIYAR,*<\/sup> so nothing is going to happen to him. <\/p>\n

*<\/sup>I<\/b><\/u>t’s OK<\/b><\/u> I<\/b><\/u>f Y<\/b><\/u>ou’re A<\/b><\/u> R<\/b><\/u>epublican.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Specifically, the old saying that, “It ain’t the crime, it’s the coverup.” It appears that one Jefferson Beauregard Sessions has not learned this lesson: Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Thursday that he will recuse himself from investigations related to the 2016 presidential campaign, which would include any Russian interference in the electoral process. Speaking at …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,407,374,455],"class_list":["post-180603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-justice","tag-politics","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}