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More on the Weasel...

oldenGoldenDecoy — Thu, 15 Jun 2017 21:49:41 +0000

In reply to Weasel Words of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III

More on the Weasel...

Appearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee under oath this week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions was asked whether he had “any contacts with any representative, including any American lobbyist or agent of any Russian company” during the 2016 campaign. Sessions, one of Trump’s earliest supporters, answered: “I don’t believe so.”

On Thursday, an American lobbyist for several major Russian interests, including a state-run energy company and a private equity firm with the state-run Alfa bank, told the Guardian that Sessions in fact hosted him at two dinners during the presidential campaign. The dinners occurred around the time time that the American public learned of Russian efforts to influence the presidential election.

Richard Burt, a former U.S. ambassador to Germany who now lobbies on behalf a pipeline company owned by the Russian energy giant Gazprom, said he attended events with Sessions at least twice last year, and his ties to the Trump campaign were reported as early as last October. Burt made hundreds of thousands of dollars in 2016 alone lobbying Congress to exempt a proposed natural gas pipeline from U.S. sanctions, which would allow more Russian gas to flow to European markets—a key geopolitical goal of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Burt also serves on the board of the Center for the National Interest, a Russia-friendly D.C. think tank that hosted Trump’s foreign policy speech at the Mayflower Hotel last April. Politico reported that Burt helped shape the address Trump delivered at that event, which Sessions attended as the chairman of the Trump campaign’s national security committee.

Report: Sessions Dined With Lobbyist For Russian Corps, Omitted It In Testimony
TPMDC | By Alice Ollstein June 15, 2017 3:19 pm

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Wish you hadn't said that

A Guy Called LULU — Thu, 15 Jun 2017 05:18:06 +0000

In reply to Agree totally! If you don't

Wish you hadn't said that about the slugs. The way to eat okra is breaded and deep fried. It's like seafood. Purty durn good.

Dick... Just for the record..

oldenGoldenDecoy — Thu, 15 Jun 2017 04:58:57 +0000

In reply to DUCKY I missed this.

Dick... Just for the record...

Found in Google News today.

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DUCKY I missed this.

Richard Day — Wed, 14 Jun 2017 23:33:38 +0000

In reply to Hey Dick... Martin from the

DUCKY I missed this. hahahahaha

Penetration, penetration....

There is song in there somewhere?

hhahahahah

Oh yeah, its all about anticipation of penetration?

hahahhahahah

Thanks, DD! I went with my

CVille Dem — Wed, 14 Jun 2017 23:03:48 +0000

In reply to oooooCIVIL. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

oooooCIVIL. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Richard Day — Wed, 14 Jun 2017 22:59:03 +0000

In reply to Agree totally! If you don't

oooooCVILLE. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Oh Cville...

Agree totally! If you don't

CVille Dem — Wed, 14 Jun 2017 22:33:23 +0000

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Agree totally! If you don't pull that damn okra off the cooker at the exact minute it is done, you may as well go out in your garden and eat slugs. Sessions is so used to getting a pass for looking either pitiful, or cutely pleasant (neither of which he is), he has no reason to drop the persona.

Interesting how every actual denial is very specific (I never colluded to help the hacking). -- That old goat probably doesn't know how to open a new window on his computer -- It's about promising Russia to ease the SANCTIONS! By his wording he thinks he is being "honest." Joe Manchin gave him a list of people, verbally, one by one. His refusals to answer were non-specific and based on a phantom "policy" with which he is unfamiliar.

His answers:

I don't recall

I didn't see that

I don't recall

Not to my knowledge, etc

He reminds me of when I was 19 years old and was telling my parents I was going on a trip to the Bahamas in a plane when I was actually going on a sailboat with two novices (as was I). Difference: I wasn't under oath, and I wasn't the Attorney General of the US. One other difference: I easily could have drowned.

I do not recall having cooked

Richard Day — Wed, 14 Jun 2017 18:17:34 +0000

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I do not recall having cooked okra...but

I hereby

rendere unto Moat the Dayly Line/poem of the Day Award for this here Dagblog Site given to all of Moat from all of me. hahahah

Beauregard is slipperier than

moat — Wed, 14 Jun 2017 17:14:01 +0000

In reply to Weasel Words of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III

Beauregard is slipperier than a bowl of overcooked okra.

I preferred viewing the hearing with the sound off:
Every now and then, Session"s eyes glow like coals the devil just blew upon.
The butter knife of his smile as he invites others to approve of him.
The look of hopeless fear that flashes in between practiced extrusions of words.

Hey Dick... Martin from the

oldenGoldenDecoy — Wed, 14 Jun 2017 16:49:46 +0000

In reply to Again, all I can think of is

Hey Dick... Martin from the old TPM Cafe Days...

At Twitter:

Sessions: "I may have had sex with Sergey Kislyak but I can't recall any penetration."

https://twitter.com/MartinHeldt/status/874759383556730886

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