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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSessions says he plans to testify before Senate intelligence panel
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/10/politics/sessions-senate-testimony/index.htmlBy Tom LoBianco and Laura Jarrett, CNN
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Saturday that he plans to testify before the Senate intelligence committee Tuesday, but it was not immediately clear if he would testify in public or private.
The move is a prominent switch from his previous plans to testify publicly on the Justice Department's budget and puts him more directly in the firing line over questions about his contacts with the Russian ambassador to the United States and a federal investigation into Russian attempts to influence the 2016 election.
Sessions had been scheduled to testify Tuesday before the House and Senate subcommittees that oversee his department's budget, but Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will go before them instead, he said Saturday in lettersto the chairmen of those subcommittees.
"Some members have publicly stated their intention to focus their questions on issues related to the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, from which I have recused, and for which the deputy attorney general appointed a special counsel, " Sessions wrote.
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Sessions says he plans to testify before Senate intelligence panel (Original Post)
applegrove
Jun 2017
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It very well could be a private session. I'm not hopefull that it would come to
applegrove
Jun 2017
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left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)1. Do you think the regular networks will carry it? n/t
applegrove
(118,786 posts)2. It very well could be a private session. I'm not hopefull that it would come to
much. There seems to have been a fielty of Trump people to Russians of all stripes. But I doubt they are going to publicly admit that the meetings were anything but usual political or business discussions.
moonscape
(4,673 posts)3. Closed - he's such a snake. Judd Legum's