Jeff Sessions withholding decades of records ahead of hearings

Posted by | December 31, 2016 14:27 | Filed under: Politics

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Attorney General-designate Jeff Sessions is keeping records hidden according to progressive groups.

The groups, which include Alliance for Justice and People for the American Way, reviewed the questionnaire that Sessions filled out for the Senate Judiciary Committee ― it requires complete documentation of employment history, published writings, interviews and speeches, among other things ― and found “astonishingly deficient” responses.

He left out major details from his years as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Alabama, from 1981 to 1993; as attorney general of Alabama, from 1995 to 1997; and as a first-term U.S. senator, from 1997 to 2002.
The gaps encompass the time, for example, when Sessions was nominated to be a federal judge in 1986 ― and then rejected after being deemed too racist.

He also omitted dozens of recent interviews, some of which included controversial statements he made. An October interview in which Sessions gave Trump a pass for making sexist comments, because “everybody knows that Trump likes women” and “uses this kind of talk,” was not cited in his questionnaire. A December 2015 interview in which Sessions says “the predictions aren’t coming true” about climate change having disastrous effects is also not mentioned.

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6 responses to Jeff Sessions withholding decades of records ahead of hearings

  1. Buford2k11 December 31st, 2016 at 15:45

    hehehe…He thinks he can erase it from the Internet…that is why the republicans are so eager to capture, corrupt, and closely control what is on the net….me thinks, they have betrayed their sacred Oaths of Elected Office…especially this one..

  2. RandyBastard December 31st, 2016 at 15:49

    “…when Sessions was nominated to be a federal judge in 1986 ― and then rejected after being deemed too racist.”

    I just love that. He was ‘too’ racist. Implying a certain level of racism is OK for a federal judge.

  3. Larry Schmitt December 31st, 2016 at 16:22

    Gee, you’d almost think he has something to hide. Maybe trump can recall those investigators from Hawaii to find it. Whatever it is.

  4. bpollen December 31st, 2016 at 16:27

    “The truth – it’s just a distraction from our Neo-Feudalism Project.”

  5. Gary Parillo January 1st, 2017 at 03:03

    Out of all horrible fascist,rascist cabinet picks,in the new despot Don reign of terror to come e,I find it difficult to pick one I disdain more than the others,but I’ve lowered my standards and decided it would be Sessions.The new top cop already breaking rules and withholding info that he will soon swear is all accurate.Here is a man who has the potential to set the drug war progress back 50 years,and destroy the civil rights that many have given up their freedom and even their lives in order to bring Liberty and justice to all.Can it get any worse?It can and it will.

  6. Jackie Garnett January 2nd, 2017 at 02:09

    Without a doubt, this man is dangerous!!

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