In my not-too-original opinion on this matter, if Sessions thought he needed to recuse himself, that’s fine, but he should have told Trump before he was hired, or he should have immediately resigned and allowed Trump to move in another direction.
And every day that went by as it became more and more obvious how deleterious Sessions’ neutered position as Trump’s AG was to Trump, Sessions should have resigned.
The fact that he didn’t tell Trump he was going to recuse himself, and insisted on staying on despite the obvious harm he was doing to the administration tells me all I need to know about Sessions in terms of his national role.
Alabamans will make the choice locally. That’s up to them. But it’s not hard to understand why Trump came out against Sessions after what Sessions pulled.
Could not agree more.
Exactly.
Slaves get what they need. Free men get what they want.
Is, was and always will be a Jeff Sessions supporter, you can add Rod Rosenstein to that list also.
+1
Really? Rod Rosenstein is a snake. Remember he re-wrote Muellers scope to help ensnare Flynn's son....twice. Not to mention blocking and/or redacting documents injurious to the deep state. And the offer to wire-tap the President.
I can't believe that anybody would think Rosenstein is one of the good guys. Geez-o-pete.
Slaves get what they need. Free men get what they want.
Benedict Arnold was a warrior with a huge set of nuts.
This is actually true ! It’s a tragedy that his vanity and jealousy drove him to betray the colonial revolution he had helped create and lead the battle that turned the tide of the war. The man both saved and betrayed the revolution.
‘TO LEARN WHO RULES OVER YOU, SIMPLY FIND OUT WHO YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO CRITICIZE’
Conspiracy theorists are the ones who see it all coming…
I agree that Sessions had to recuse himself. He was a part of the actual campaign, and 28 USC Sec 528 mandates it.
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28 U.S. Code § 528.Disqualification of officers and employees of the Department of Justice The Attorney General shall promulgate rules and regulations which require the disqualification of any officer or employee of the Department of Justice, including a United States attorney or a member of such attorney’s staff, from participation in a particular investigation or prosecution if such participation may result in a personal, financial, or political conflict of interest, or the appearance thereof. Such rules and regulations may provide that a willful violation of any provision thereof shall result in removal from office.
The regulation he cited applies to a different type of investigation.
I have argued that Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s recusal from the so-called Russia investigation was a mistake. The attorney general’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday afternoon bolstered this conclusion.
Sessions says that he recused himself, on the advice of career ethics experts at the Justice Department, because he thought this was required by the federal regulation controlling “Disqualification arising from personal or political relationship” (28 CFR Sec. 45.2). But judging from the public testimony that former FBI director James Comey has given about the investigation into Russia’s election-meddling, the regulation did not mandate recusal.
Section 45.2 states that an official is disqualified from “a criminal investigation or prosecution” if he has a personal or political relationship with a “subject of the investigation or prosecution,” or with a person or organization whose interests would be affected by the outcome “of the investigation or prosecution.” (Emphasis added.)
The probe of Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential campaign is not a criminal investigation or prosecution. Moreover, when the reg speaks of the “subject of the investigation or prosecution,” it is using “subject” as a criminal-law term of art. A “subject” is a person or entity whose actions are being examined by a grand jury with an eye toward a possible indictment. There are no “subjects” in that sense in a counterintelligence investigation because the objective is not to build a criminal case and there is no grand jury.
Just last week, in his written and oral testimony, former FBI director James Comey reiterated that the Russia probe is a counterintelligence investigation. As Comey elaborated, a counterintelligence investigation is an effort “to understand the technical and human methods that hostile foreign powers are using to influence the United States or to steal our secrets,” in order to “disrupt” those activities. Again, the point is to gather intelligence about a foreign power, not investigate with an eye toward a prosecution of criminal suspects.
Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Give a man a welfare check, a forty ounce malt liquor, a crack pipe, an Obama phone, free health insurance. and some Air Jordan's and he votes Democrat for a lifetime.
When contemplating the malign activity of Rod Rosenstein; and how angered President Trump is with former AG Jeff Sessions; it is worth remembering that Sessions requested Rod Rosenstein as his deputy, and then immediately thereafter Sessions recused himself, effectively positioning Rosenstein to run the operation against President Trump.
Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Give a man a welfare check, a forty ounce malt liquor, a crack pipe, an Obama phone, free health insurance. and some Air Jordan's and he votes Democrat for a lifetime.
Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Give a man a welfare check, a forty ounce malt liquor, a crack pipe, an Obama phone, free health insurance. and some Air Jordan's and he votes Democrat for a lifetime.
In my not-too-original opinion on this matter, if Sessions thought he needed to recuse himself, that’s fine, but he should have told Trump before he was hired, or he should have immediately resigned and allowed Trump to move in another direction.
And every day that went by as it became more and more obvious how deleterious Sessions’ neutered position as Trump’s AG was to Trump, Sessions should have resigned.
The fact that he didn’t tell Trump he was going to recuse himself, and insisted on staying on despite the obvious harm he was doing to the administration tells me all I need to know about Sessions in terms of his national role.
Alabamans will make the choice locally. That’s up to them. But it’s not hard to understand why Trump came out against Sessions after what Sessions pulled.
I’ve seen the same reaction from a lot of people. When things go wrong most people are going to blame someone other than themselves. So who do we blame? In this case it’s Sessions. Trump had the power to fire anyone giving him problems in the DOJ or FBI. What’s the worse they can do? Impeach him? Hasbeen
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