SESSIONS "RUSSIAN CHARGE" IS NOTHING BURGER-- CRUZ
Senator Ted Cruz, a former presidential candidate and legal expert, declared that the whole Russia allegations are a "nothingburger" and we at Public Advocate agree.
Fox News Opinion reports:
Talk about "over the top"! The overblown rhetoric accompanying calls for Attorney General Jeff Sessions' resignation reveals that Thursday's brouhaha is driven by mere political grandstanding, not a real concern over unlawful behavior.
There's a reason for that: the total lack of evidence that any illegal behavior occurred.
What sparked Thurday's folderol was a Washington Post report that General Sessions, while still a U.S. senator, met with the Russian ambassador last year. Twice.
To characterize the first of these encounters as a "meeting" strains the meaning of the word-to the breaking point. But to claim that he "lied" when he did not reveal these "meetings" during his Senate nomination hearing is even more far-fetched.
Review the record of that hearing with an eye toward context, and you'll find that Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) was clearly asking Sessions if he was aware of any meetings between Trump campaign staff or surrogates and Russian officials to discuss the election. Franken specifically cites a CNN story about a supposed "continuing exchange of information during the campaign between Trump's surrogates and intermediaries of the Russian government."
Sen. Sessions answered that he was "not aware of any of those activities." Noting that he himself had "been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign," he said that he had had no such communication with the Russians.
Obviously, Sessions was talking about discussions concerning the election.
So what are the two meetings that Sessions had? The first came at a conference on "Global Partners in Diplomacy," where Sessions was the keynote speaker. Sponsored by the U.S. State Department, The Heritage Foundation, and several other organizations, it was held in Cleveland during the Republican National Convention..............................
............There is no reason for Attorney General Sessions to resign.
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