Oh My: Jeff Sessions sending a deputy in his place to appropriations hearing Tuesday

[kpete]

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions was scheduled to testify publicly next Tuesday before the House and Senate appropriations committees. On Saturday, he abruptly canceled.

In letters to the chairmen of the committees, Sessions writes that he will send his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, to the hearing instead. In explaining the cancellation, Sessions writes that he believed that members of the committees were planning on asking him about “issues related to the investigation into Russian interference with the 2016 election.”

Sessions’ role in the ongoing probe into Trump campaign’s alleged communications with Russia has come under increased scrutiny since the testimony of former FBI Director James Comey this week.

MORE:
https://thinkprogress.org/sessions-cancels-testimony-f8874373e4f

[C_U_L8R]

1. That sounds like he's hiding

Is he hiding?

[justiceischeap]

2. Yep. Sounds like hiding. nt

[underpants]

7. I know where to look

[irisblue]

30. .

[C_U_L8R]

19. Looks like he's going under the microscope anyway....

Sessions to testify before Senate intelligence panel
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141795886

[FarPoint]

20. He's going to the Intelligence Committee Hearing.

Guess he can't multi task...

[NastyRiffraff]

27. Maybe

Maybe he will. He's been known to bail at the last minute.

[CentralMass]

3. Weasel

[chillfactor]

4. sessions is a coward...

run and hide is what he is very good at

and rosenstein will play the dummy....what a sordid pair these two are.

[Madam45for2923]

5. Total coward! Needs to recuse & resign!

[Achilleaze]

6. russian-republicans are playing hidey hide

from the truth

[katmondoo]

8. Rachel had her doubts that he would show up

She said he almost never does

[BigmanPigman]

9. Last night on MSNBC someone said he probably will not show up...his typical behavior.

[spanone]

10. send a subpoena

[ecstatic]

11. So I guess the 3rd meeting did occur, and maybe more...

If he were asked that question under oath, he'd be forced to either commit perjury or tell the truth.

[louis c]

12. Tuesday is June 13th.

WTF. Tell us you can't be at two places at once.

He refuses a Tuesday hearing but accepts June 13th, when, in fact, they're the same day.

[writes3000]

14. He's NOT hiding. He's testifying on the same day in another committee.

[Igel]

16. At the more politically charged of the two.

Which itself interesting.

[louis c]

25. That's my point. Perhaps I wasn't clear (or he wasn't).

[babylonsister]

13. I KNEW he'd bail, that slimy bastid. nt

[USALiberal]

15. He is too busy writing more anti-Pot memos I assume. And re-starting the war on drugs. Asshole! n/t

[dmr]

17. Joy Reid said this morning he has a habit of backing out

of hearings at the last minute.

How right she is. She called it.

He, like Trump, is a sniveling & cowardly chicken shit.

I don't think that highly of DAG Rosenstein either. I noticed in the hearing on Wednesday he likes to ramble on and on while saying nothing useful. I read that Comey's description of Rosenstein is he's a survivor. Doing or saying what needs to be said or done to get by.

My bet is Trump's got him pegged as such to be a useful tool.

[writes3000]

18. He's NOT backing out. He's testifying in the Intel committee the same day.

[dmr]

22. I realize that, but he was going to appear in both.

[writes3000]

24. Oh, I thought the Intel committee appearance was a new development

Since Sessions' letter refers to the Comey testimony. My bad.

[lamp_shade]

21. Looks to me like he will appear on Tuesday in front of the Senate Intelligence

Committee... while Rosenstein will appear in his place before the Appropriations Committee. Or maybe I'm reading that wrong.

[tammywammy]

23. That's exactly what I see.

He's not "hiding" as some in this thread seem to think.

[mrJJ]

26. He can run BUT He Can't hide .....

Trump Pummeled With Bad News As Top Senator Calls For Obstruction of Justice Investigation

While Trump tries his best to lie his way out of an investigation, Sen. Feinstein showed that she is not backing down in a new letter requesting for an investigation into any obstruction of justice.

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Feinstein also laid out an order of operations to aid in the investigation. She requested that each issue being investigated must be “developed by our legal staff, presented to us, and be subject to full committee hearings.” Feinstein then silenced anyone who opposed her by describing why it is the Judiciary Committee’s issue. She writes in her letter that the “termination of the FBI Director and any efforts to interfere with the independence of ongoing investigations — fall squarely in the jurisdiction of the Judiciary Committee” and therefore deserve an investigation by the Committee.

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/06/10/dianne-feinstein-trumps-worst-nightmare-calling-investigation-obstruction-justice.html

[Barack_America]

28. "And my lawyer said, 'Run, Jeffie! Run!'"

[Mr. Ected]

29. Give him time, give him time

He'll bail on the Intelligence Committee before the 13th. He's up to his elfin ears in it.

[Sunsky]

31. Will his intelligence committee appearance

be opened to the public or private?