EX-DOJ OFFICIAL: DEMS HAVE
SECRET MOTIVE FOR TARGETING SESSIONS, Exposes
'real goal' of political left, by Greg Corombos, 3/5/17, WND
A former U.S. Justice Department official says the liberal outrage over Attorney General Jeff Sessions having contact with the Russian ambassador during the 2016 campaign is much ado about nothing and Democrats are doing whatever they can to thwart the Trump agenda.
He also told WND and Radio
America reports of a slush fund at the Justice Department created during
the Obama years that is funneling money to liberal activist groups are a
big deal and further evidence that Democrats turned a blind eye to the Justice
Department when far more serious things were happening.
It’s the Sessions story that had the
media in a frenzy Thursday after accusations the attorney general misled
senators during his confirmation hearings in January.
At that hearing, Sen. Al Franken,
D-Minn., cited a breaking CNN report that officials in the Trump campaign
discussed the election on multiple occasions with agents of the Russian
government. When asked by Franken what he would do if the report was proven
true, Sessions indicated he was unaware of such activity.
“I’m not aware of any of those
activities. I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign
and I did not have communications with the Russians. And I’m unable to comment
on it,” said Sessions during the confirmation hearing.
Then, the Washington Post reported
Wednesday night that Sessions had met twice with Russian Ambassador Sergey
Kislyak in 2016. One occasion was a sideline chat after a speech at a
conference held during the Republican National Convention in July and
the other was at Sessions’ Senate office in September, with two of his aides
present.
Democrats accused Sessions of
perjury for his answer to Franken and for not clarifying the statement in
writing after the hearing. On Thursday, Sessions
recused himself from Department of Justice investigations into alleged Russian meddling in the election, and he
tried to clarify his earlier statement.
Sessions insisted none of his
conversations with the Russian ambassador were related to the presidential
campaign. “Let me be clear: I never had
meetings with Russian operatives or Russian intermediaries about the Trump
campaign,” he said. “And the idea that I was part of a ‘continuing exchange of
information during the campaign between Trump surrogates and intermediaries for
the Russian government is totally false. That is the question that Sen. [Al]
Franken asked me at the hearing, and that … is the question that I
responded to.”
So is Sessions in real political or
legal trouble for his testimony under oath, or are his critics deliberately
blurring the line between communication about the campaign and communication
for other purposes?
Former Justice Department official
Hans von Spakovsky told WND and Radio America the controversy is way
overblown. “Those calls for his resignation are
all overblown, and there’s no reason for him to resign,” said von Spakovsky,
who now runs the Election Law Reform Initiative at the Heritage Foundation.
“There’s really nothing to this story.”
He said the Democrats are still
in shock over losing the elections and are lashing out in every possible
direction. “They did not want Jeff Sessions to
become attorney general because he’s a conservative, rule-of-law type of guy,”
von Spakovsky said. “They’re seizing on this, even though there’s nothing
really to it when you dig down into it, because they want to oppose anything
the attorney general might do, such as actually start enforcing our immigration
laws. That’s the real goal here.”
Listen
to the WND/Radio America interview with Hans von Spakovsky:
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