‘Attorney General Sessions Provided False Testimony Before the Senate Judiciary Committee’ Senators Charge
Top Democratic Senators Al Franken and Patrick Leahy have just released letters they sent to now-former FBI Director Jim Comey requesting he investigate any and all contact Attorney General Jeff Sessions has had with the Russians. According to the letters, they first sent Comey a request on March 20 effectively accusing Sessions of having committed perjury during his confirmation hearing. They followed up on April 28. On May 12 the two senators, who both serve on the Judiciary Committee, followed up with acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, after President Trump had fired Comey.Â
“We are concerned about Attorney General Sessions’ lack of candor to the committee and his failure thus far to accept responsibility for testimony that could be construed as perjury,” CNN reports their initial letter stated.Â
“Earlier this year, Attorney General Sessions provided false testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in response to our questions regarding his contacts with Russian officials,” Senators Franken and Leahy wrote in a joint statement issued Thursday. “The attorney general never fully explained or even acknowledged the misrepresentations in his testimony, and we remained concerned that he had still not been forthcoming about the extent of his contacts with Russian officials.”
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