Claire McCaskill accused of lying in attack on Jeff Sessions

[madville]

Source: USA TODAY

WASHINGTON — Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., who fired off one of the harshest criticisms of Attorney General Jeff Sessions over his meetings with a Russian ambassador, faced blowback herself Thursday when the senator's own tweets contradicted her claim that she never had met the ambassador.


“A good prosecutor would have known these facts were relevant to the questions asked,” McCaskill said in a statement Thursday morning. "It's clear Attorney General Sessions misled the Senate — the question is, why? I’ve been on the Senate Armed Services Committee for 10 years, and in that time, have had no call from, or meeting with, the Russian ambassador. Ever."




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[titaniumsalute]

1. Did she lie about it under oath?

[Cryptoad]

5. Big difference,,,

lying not under oath is free speech
lying under oath is a Felony!

[gopiscrap]

27. yup

[madville]

6. Nope

Just bad optics, Sessions defenders will use it to invalidate demands that he resign.

And of course, we now have Joe Manchin-D publicly defending Sessions as well.

[leftynyc]

13. One is a crime

The other is a fuck up. No comparison whatsoever.

[bronxiteforever]

31. +1,00000

[Demsrule86]

43. Also she was in a room with a bunch of other Senators.

Hardly the same thing...and she has not been involved in the Trump campaign...the OP should delete this...this is not Free Republic...this is Democratic underground.

[marybourg]

2. Maybe they all ought to stop twitting about every thing they did or

think they might do or want us to think they might do.

[vi5]

4. God, I fucking hate Twitter so much....

Every goddamned thing about it. Political or otherwise.

[malchickiwick]

9. I'm with you there. I squarely blame the platform for the nightmare we have in the WH

[marybourg]

26. Well, along with Faux News. nt

[LiberalLovinLug]

41. And Facebook

[msongs]

3. "calls from"..if she called HIM that is still a true statement nt

[malthaussen]

11. How do you figure that?

"Call from, or meeting with," she says, and the first tweet clearly says she is meeting with him.

-- Mal

[Javaman]

7. repukes obvoiusly trying to deflect sessions highly illegal lying under oath

as opposed to McCaskill, who was trying to work out a deal with child adoptions...WHILE NOT TESTIFYING.

asshole repukes are panicking and will do anything and everything to deflect from their illegal activity.

fuck them.

[mpcamb]

39. Sessions LIED under oath. That's a Felony! Impeach and convict or let him off with a resignation-

I KNOW WHICH I"D OPT FOR!!

[Javaman]

40. I agree but...

it will take many a repuke congress critter to get rid of the bums.

And that means they have to cross party lines and grow spines.

I seriously doubt that will happen.

they only way that does happen is if all the bullshit swirling around trump and his room full of dopes becomes personal liabilities to the various repuke congress critters.

then and only then, will things change.

until then, I'll believe it when I see it. and I'm not about to hold my breath.

[TheDebbieDee]

8. Where's the proof that Sen Claire "Both sides do it"

McCaskill met with the Russian Ambassador?

[hughee99]

19. From what I understand, McCaskill is on one side of the table and the Russian Ambassador is on the

other side. I wouldn't know the Russian Ambassador by sight, but I imagine there are those who could verify or debunk this.

[DK504]

20. Did she make the calls while being a surrogate for a candidate?

Seesions did did, so he broke the law, that's the most important thing.

[hughee99]

23. I have no idea. The post I was responding to was asking for proof they met (not taking her twitter

comments at face value). I posted a picture that would seem to indicate they did.

[Ligyron]

10. Oh, so that was what the all the tweeter noise from the RW was about yesterday.

But like you said, she was hardly under oath.

Someone in the opposition sure was on top of this mistake she made. Plus, it was work connected, not related to her campaign.

[Freethinker65]

12. Time for Senator McCaskill to own up to her non-traitorous meeting about adoptions

Not the best optics, but certainly can be neutralized

[OKNancy]

14. FYI, her meeting was not on an individual basis.. a big group of Senators met

about international adoptions.

[mobeau69]

15. It really shows that the pukes don't have much of a defense for the little elf.

They are frantically grasping at anything.

[ymetca]

16. Maybe she is part of the conspiracy

to self-discredit in order to discredit those discrediting...

... the need to go to war somewhere so we'll all stop talking about how corrupt they all are ...

Very clever of her!

[asiliveandbreathe]

17. Claire Mc. was acting in her capacity to change russian minds

regarding their arbitrary/cruel adoption decision, and the Iran deal - was a big deal.....in the service of the American people......or talk about sanctions against Russia.....

spinning spinning spinning spineless greedy lying POS...

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. Another difference: Sessions had weeks to update his testimony but did not.

People do forget occasionally, though forgetting meeting the Ambassador in your own office AND at the big event where your hero is nominated is impossible to believe. Just as hard to believe is that a careful lawyer like Sessions would not know that his clear unequivocal direct statement under oath without qualifying it is a lie. Trying to weasel out saying he was answering with his Senate Committee hat on directly contradicts that Sessions met the Russian Ambassador at the RNC Convention!

[sinkingfeeling]

21. Was it the same ambassador in 2013 as now?

[csziggy]

36. Yes, Kislayk has been ambassador since 2008 nt

[kimbutgar]

22. They will use this against when she runs for reelection.

Missouri is now a red state and she has a big bullseye on her. I understand they are already running commercials against her to make her like Hillary.

[yeoman6987]

37. They are doing commercials in Florida against senator bill Nelson

It pisses me off that these commercials will go for two years with no ability for bill to say how BS they are.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

24. You'd think she'd remember meeting with the Russian ambassador.

Twice at least. I mean, it's not like a meeting with the local girl scouts. It's an ambassador.

And don't tell me a Senator meets so many she just can't remember them all. Especially since this thing has been front and center for more than a day or two.

[apcalc]

29. Is it the same person?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

38. Even if it's a different ambassador,

She said she never met with a Russian ambassador. If she met with a different one, she should have clarified it: I met with former Ambassador so and so, and we discussed girl scout cookie sales, or whatever they actually discussed. But simply saying she never met with one when she did, well when Republicans do that we call it lying.

Not that I am at all fond of McCaskill. I don't think she can really be trusted.

[Blue_Tires]

25. Since McCaskill isn't the goddamned AG

with the responsibility to probe Russian infiltration it's not quite the equal comparison, is it?

[apcalc]

28. It the ambassador the same person??

Or a different person?

[apcalc]

30. January 2013 tweet

Is the ambassador the same person? " the ambassador" means squat -could it someone else in the position? A different ambassador?

[HoneyBadger]

32. So much material for SNL this week

[George II]

33. I guess this is about to break out as the country's most important pissing contest, except....

....that McCaskill didn't lie under oath to get a job with the administration.

[still_one]

34. The medias typical false equivalency bullshit

[JI7]

42. exactly. and instead of just reporting the facts

and showing it's clearly not the same thing.

they will present it as a question and allow "both sides" to spew whatever the fuck and let people decide.

[still_one]

44. it really infuriates me

[nikibatts]

35. 2013 meeting about adoptions and phone call about Iran deal. So what?

She wasn't a 45 surrogate.