Sessions Recusal: Election And/Or Russia? https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/06/09/sessions-recusal-election-andor-russia/ … Update: Was firing Comey bc of Rosenstein memo election related?
How are they being coy? This was clearly an attempt to respond to Comey's testimony and it clearly departs from his on this critical point.
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Not coy: "it was for that reason, and that reason alone, the Attorney General made the decision on March 2, 2017 to recuse himself "
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Right but 3/2 is recusal from any investigation related in any way to the 2016 campaigns, and 3/20 description of the Russia investigation
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makes clear that it encompasses both election meddling per se & nature of any links btwn Russia & individuals associated w/ Trump campaign
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A piece of this may be that Sessions doesn't want to admit that he recused because of exposure of his false testimony re Russia contacts
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So keeping to the 3/2 wording, and the nicer-sounding reason that he was involved in Trump campaign w/out regard to Russia, saves face
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So your statement is, based off nothing, you're saying DOJ's statement from Thursday was false?
End of conversation
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oh they're still being coy about what Mueller is looking at (i.e. whether obstruction is part of it now)
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