UPDATE: Sessions not disclosing contacts w/Russians because it would invade his "personal privacy"

[riversedge]

Arrogant little SOB!!


Judd Legum‏Verified account @JuddLegum 15m15 minutes ago

UPDATE: Sessions not disclosing contacts w/Russians because it would invade his "personal privacy"

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BadgerStew‏ @BadgerStew 11m11 minutes ago
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Wait. We can do that?
— Every Criminal in America

JulieGaughran‏ @gaughran444 15m15 minutes ago

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Who t f does he think he is? We're not looking into his love life. He's the gddnned AG of the United States.
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Paul Hanstedt‏ @curriculargeek 15m15 minutes ago
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he's the chief law officer in the country. he has no privacy. #statingtheobvious
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BREAKING: DOJ releases single, redacted page of Sessions's SF86 security clearance form to American Oversight. https://www.americanoversight.org/our-actions/russia-investigation#sessions …

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[Chasstev365]

1. ENOUGH! I am sick of this shit!

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

2. We got elected so we can do anything we want

And media is starting to normalize this clown car Whitehouse.

[emulatorloo]

11. WAPO is "normalizing" Trump? NYT "normalized" Trump Jr by reporting on his collusion w Russia?

WSJ "normalized" Trump by reporting on Peter Smith's contacting Russian Hackers to help the Trump campaign, while he named dropped Mike Flynn?

Some good investigative work going on out there.

[NastyRiffraff]

3. Yet another one who should be behind bars

This is getting ridiculous.

[brush]

4. WTF? If he's hiding something in his private life, how the fu_k does he think he can b Attorney Gen.

An AG ripe for blackmail. Just great.

What kompromat do the Russians have on him?

This entire administration should be shown the door — and please let it hit 'em in the backside as they exit stage alt-right.

[mitch96]

59. " WTF? If he's hiding something"

By not saying it's invasion of his privacy he is admitting he is hiding something... like talking to the russians.
These guys think they are above the law and can't be touched.. So what can be done about this?
Who has the big stick that can reign these guys in?????
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[C_U_L8R]

5. If you can't do the basics of the job, Sessions

Then resign

[SweetieD]

6. Fuck him!! Can the AG be impeached?

[riversedge]

9. A committee-chaired by Repugs could make hay of this. But I will not count on it. His

name is not Hillary.

[BASE]

7. Im confused...

He's not releasing it, or did he just release it?

I guess they could ask the Chinese nicely, I think they have all of our SF86's now.

[HipChick]

8. This is fucked up....any other person trying that on a SF86

would get a visit...

[WinkyDink]

10. The AG defying a court ruling. How sweet.

[Kber]

14. kinda makes it hard to argue "law and order" when he's flouting both

[Stonepounder]

44. The judge should send the US Marshals and haul his ass into court.

Judge: Mr. Sessions, you are in contempt of court. Release the unredacted form as ordered by this court or you can go directly to jail. Take your pick.

[emulatorloo]

12. This bullshit has to end. I trust that the FBI has the goods on this liar

[SweetieD]

13. Reading the form again. And he checked no. So is he saying he didn't have any contact with any forei

foreign officials in the last 7 years? How is that possible? He is a Senator and he has probably been to a ton of meetings and events even in an unofficial capacity where he he has interacted with various foreign officials.

[Kber]

15. I know how he could protect his personal privacy

I just don't know how he can do it while remaining in his current role.

[NightWatcher]

16. THAT'S NOT A THING!!!

For the Nation's Top Cop he doesn't know shit about law and order.

[tblue37]

41. Your remark reminds me of *former prosecutor* Trey Gowdy's recent on air comment about not

being able to discuss Fredo's legal exposure for the meeting with the Russian lawyer because he just doesn't know that much about criminal law.

[Baitball Blogger]

17. Typical weasely autocrat.

If he were from Alabama he would feed into the stereotype of the white male, privileged autocrat.

[sinkingfeeling]

18. If he wants privacy, resign and go back to the woods in your deep

South and hide.

[OnDoutside]

19. Time for Mark Warner to test Burr.

[Turn CO Blue]

20. Conservative lawyers argue against privacy as a Constitutional right all the time...except when

it suits them. (Hint: Roe v Wade is about privacy.)

Hypocrites, one and all.

[dalton99a]

21. LE has no right to interrogate suspects because of privacy concerns

[flt rsk]

22. I conducted SSBI for 20 years.

Intentional omission is the same as lying. Invasion of privacy does not exist when completing the FS-86. Prior to starting the interview, the subject is given his rights under the Privacy Act of 1974: Failure to cooperate (not completing the FS-86 as directed) can cause the clearance to be delayed or canceled. Actually, his sex life is looked into. Things like affairs, child porn, pedophilia…anything that can cause him to be a target for blackmail or coercion.

[NightWatcher]

24. Same here, before CG bought us out, it would have been a no no to not cooperate.

But after the CG buyout the quality of the product went down the toilet. I know of instances where the cases were never even done beyond a NACLC or a very limited LBI.

[flt rsk]

32. I was with DOD.

We had 13 agents in our field office. Within 2 years of OPM (office of personnel mismanagement) taking over, every one had bailed. Two of our agents were retired MI, they both tossed their B&Cs on the desk and walked away. Loved that job. Where else could you ask embarrassing questions of total strangers and get paid? The higher up the food chain you went, the more lies you found.

[WinkyDink]

23. ALL Trump's men are saying in so many words: "You and what Army will make me?" THEY NEED TO BE SHOWN

THE GUNS OF JULY AND AUGUST.

[haele]

25. Non-incidental contacts with a foreign national is personal privacy?

Even applying for a Post Office Job, they want to know if you have contacts with a foreign national. He's the head of the Department of Justice - "personal privacy" is if they want to know what his favorite actress is, or who his last girlfriend was before he dated the woman he got married to.
This isn't a casual "bumped into someone at the airport and spoke for an hour while waiting to board" sort of contact...like...hmmm...Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch?...

Whether he's regularly hanging around with a foreign national because he likes to go out to bars and shoot pool and , have an affair with, or if he meets with a foreign national to have business or political dealings with - or to give or accept bribes from - he still needs to report that interaction.

You give up those anonymous "it's just a chance meeting", or "it's personal privacy, none of your business" sort of relationships with foreign nationals and business representatives/lobbyists when you take a government job or otherwise Serve the United States.

Haele

[JustAnotherGen]

26. *smdh*

What a fucking asshole he is. Just as worthless as his boss 45/140.

[Botany]

27. Wasn't Bill and Hillary's "personal privacy" trashed by Whitewater?

"personal privacy" aka I'm into this Russian stuff up to my eyeballs.

[COLGATE4]

28. And to think that this little pissant is the Lawyer for the United

States of America! Mind boggling.

[Scarsdale]

51. Why do you suppose

HE got the job? Russia lovers the entire crew. Taking the oath of office, did he reject the USA for Russia?

[COLGATE4]

65. I think he got it because he, like Trump wanted to piss on all the

establishment Republicans who long ago didn't let him get a Federal judgeship. He's a down-low racist cracker scumbag who resents 99% of the population and REALLY hates Latinos and N-----s.

[Alice11111]

29. Of all the people I want to go down, Sessions is #1

Lying, racist, self righteous snake, who has always gotten away with it.

[gratuitous]

30. What part of "any contacts" doesn't the Attorney General understand?

I believe the AG is on a tear now to have his prosecutors bring the most severe charges they can, and try for the maximum sentence every time; does that law-and-order zeal extend to Mr. Sessions, as well?

[Thrill]

31. Whats he hiding?

[niyad]

33. jeffie, you clueless, arrogant little man, you HAVE no private life when it comes to dealing

with foreign govts. who in the FUCKING HELL do you think you are??

[Gothmog]

34. Sessions need to resign then

[Duppers]

35. I'm not going to tell you whether I shot that guy or not.

That's an invasion of my privacy.

[tblue37]

37. Ha! I posted the same idea at the same time. GMTA! nt

[tblue37]

36. But it was OK to demand that Bill Clinton disclose every detail about his sex life?

THAT was personal information; engaginging in possibly treasonous collusion with a hostile government to undermine our election and all our democratic institutions?-- THAT'S NOT within the realm of personal privacy.

"Your Honor, I cannot disclose the number of times I pulled a gun on the murder victim and threatened to kill him because that would violate my right to keep my personal information private."

[Corgigal]

38. Dear CIA, FBI, NSA and others with a need to know

Some American citizen believes a foreign government got their back.

Might be time to say, don't work that way.

[jpak]

39. Lying sack of Russian shit

yup

[NRaleighLiberal]

40. LOCK. HIM... UP!!!!

[Kablooie]

42. He is saying he and his family have had no contact with ANY foreign government in the past 7 years.

He answers "No" so thats' what he is claiming.

[spanone]

43. we must remember, he works solely for trump.

we are the enemy

[OldRedneck]

45. So . . .

. . . when I refuse to tell the cops who sold me 5 grams of cocaine because telling them will invade my personal privacy, that's okay???

Thanks for clearing up that point, Jeff.

I can see the court cases now.

Dope dealer: "Yes, your honor, he caught me with 24 nickel bags but he invaded my personal privacy."
Judge: "Charges dismissed."

[bdamomma]

46. the Constitution is convenient

when they want it to be. Tsk Tsk Mr. Sessions you are over your head doing illegal things.

[gademocrat7]

47. What a travesty of justice.

The elf needs to be removed from office. Disgusting, disgraceful, deplorable.

[gtar100]

48. No doubt it would invade his personal privacy.

Prisons aren't big on respecting personal privacy.

[LiberalLovinLug]

49. So...if he is the top law enforcer in the country

He gets to decide who has to obey a court order and who doesn't..including himself?

[SunSeeker]

50. No one forced you to be AG, you little dipshit.

You want a private life, Beauregard? THEN QUIT AND GO BACK TO PRIVATE LIFE.

In the meantime, I suggest you bring a toothbrush next time you appear on front of the judge you just disobeyed.

[defacto7]

52. Oh... he's ripe for subjective Internet scrutiny now...

Hmmm... what is he hiding that's personal??
Enquiring minds want to know!

On another point... Did he pass the bar exam? Anywhere? Hard to tell.

[ffr]

53. What a loyal criminal he is.

[Turbineguy]

54. Spies generally don't like to reveal their contacts.

[George II]

55. Maybe HE is the one those Russian hookers peed on!

[BlueJac]

56. The White House is full of scum bag criminals........

I call Bullshit on all of the assholes!

The Republikan Congress is enablers, or is it conspirators?

[Elwood P Dowd]

57. "The Republikan Congress is enablers, or is it conspirators?"

The whole freaking republican party is nothing but a crime family of enablers, conspirators, liars, criminals, draft dodgers, hypocrits, grifters, and perverts.

[BlueJac]

66. You got that right!

[Heron5]

58. What to make of this?

Reuters: "As a United States Senator, the Attorney General met hundreds, if not thousands, of foreign dignitaries and their staff. In filling out the SF-86 form, the Attorney General’s staff consulted with those familiar with the process, as well as the FBI investigator handling the background check, and was instructed not to list meetings with foreign dignitaries and their staff connected with his Senate activities," said Justice Department spokesman Ian Prior.

So, because he didn't list Senate duty related meetings with Russians, we are to assume he didn't have campaign-related meetings with Russians? Or are the campaign-related meetings the off-limit privacy meetings?
http://www.americanow.com/story/politics/2017/07/13/sessions-releases-redacted-foreign-contact-record

[Thomas Hurt]

60. Another fascist who thinks he is above the law.

Judge should hold him in contempt. Something else to file a complaint against him with his state bar.

[DoctorJoJo]

61. Well, He DOES Have Issues!

By being a closeted gay in a Repub, ant-gay culture, his private life IS an issue--an ENORMOUS one. But the real issue is that it makes him completely compromised, while sitting in the highest law enforcement position in the land. Of course the Ruskies are having a field day jerking him around, and have already profited millions on one case alone, settling a $230M case for $6M, a sum the Ruskies themselves called a "gift." He simply HAS to go--or come out of the closet!

JoJo

[Hekate]

62. The most corrupt presidential administration in US History

The law only applies to little people.

[red dog 1]

63. "Ordered by court to disclose his Russia contacts, Sessions releases blank sheet of paper"

"What's He Hiding?"
http://thinkprogress.org/jeff-sessions-blank-sheet-of-paper-russia-contacts-9f9050877e96

[Corvo Bianco]

64. What a wimp.

Guy spends a lifetime locking up his fellow citizens for shit as personal as what they put in their body, but it's just downright rude to ask a tiny lil white guy for a rough estimate of how much treason he committed last year.

[onenote]

67. Understanding the disclosure

This in no way is meant to defendSessions. But rather to clarify some misunderstandings I see in some of the comments.

Only one page was released because that is all the court ordered to be released.

Sessions and the DOJ did not claim personal privacy as a reason for redacting information about his foreign government contacts. There were no contacts on the form to be redacted. That's because sessions claims that he isn't required to list contacts with foreign governments he had on the course of his official duties as a senator. Is that legit? I don't know. But is seems like a stretch that every meeting he had was part of his senatorial duties.
Finally the privacy exemption appears to have been invoked to explain the redaction of information such as his social security number.

[Skittles]

68. I'm sure he'd feel the same way if a Democrat did that

what a fucking asshole