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He believes it is important for the American people to hear the truth directly from him
Link to tweet
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/jeff-sessions-testify-before-senate-intelligence-committee-public
Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)dchill
(38,641 posts)but unfortunately, due to classified classification being, as it is, you know, classified...
I MIGHT believe it when I see it.
FarPoint
(12,487 posts)I smell a scheme....Too easy.
dchill
(38,641 posts)I just don't believe he will testify publicly, or at all. If there's a scheme, it's all his.
Igel
(35,393 posts)Comey was public, so this has to be public.
Comey said he let slip his notes about a conversation that one would assume would be confidential in order to trigger certain things. That's a scheme. And with that information, it's likely that what he said in public meeting was probably also intended to achieve certain things indirectly as well as to make a statement to the public--if what he says is public, not only does public opinion possibly move, but there'd be pressure for people to be seen to act on his information.
Comey's public testimony needs to be countered with public testimony, if that's possible.
dchill
(38,641 posts)He'll have to commit perjury multiple times, on national television. He wasn't convincing the last time he did it.
haele
(12,703 posts)And anything J.B. Sessions says can never be perjury because, as he sees it, he's "worked his way" to a position where he doesn't have to worry about responsibility for his actions. He's not answerable to anyone. Lying is just another tool to use for power.
He's now part of the elite, "dontchaknow", and calling Comey a liar in front of the media and his peers in an official-seeming Kabuki theater production is just a bit of the whitewashing for public perception necessary to maintain his position. Whatever he says doesn't mean a thing. It's only whatever he does to earn his "Good Boy" Biscuit that matters, until he's wealthy enough to buy his own comfortable fantasy environment to live in, where everyone knows their place and he's in total control.
Haele
dchill
(38,641 posts)I hope so, anyway. It used to be.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)awesomerwb1
(4,270 posts)the usual bullsh*t about how he's been a friend and colleague for XX years and is very well liked by all despite their political differences. Etc Etc Etc.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)Just heard on CNN how this is a friendly setting for him and how he was such a popular senator, and he is among "friends" .... blah blah blah
Hope he hasn't made some kind of deal with Burr that only softball questions will be allowed.