US Attorney General Discussed Trump Campaign With Russia Envoy: Report
Faizan Hashmi Published July 22, 2017 | 08:45 AM
WASHINGTON, , (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 22nd Jul, 2017 ) : Embattled US Attorney General Jeff Sessions discussed campaign-related issues with the Russian ambassador to Washington during the presidential race -- something Sessions has insisted he did not do, The Washington Post reported late Friday.
The paper quoted current and former administration officials who cited US intelligence intercepts of Ambassador Sergey Kislyak's accounts to his bosses in Moscow of two encounters he had with Sessions, then an adviser to Trump, during the campaign.
The report is certain to add more pressure on Sessions, whose job security is seen as being in jeopardy after President Donald Trump criticized him in scathing terms in an interview this week with The New York Times, saying he was sorry he had hired him.
Trump said he regretted the hiring because Sessions in March recused himself from overseeing an FBI-led probe into Russian meddling in the election in Trump's favor and whether the Trump team colluded in that effort.
Sessions recused himself in March after it was disclosed that he had in fact met with the ambassador during the campaign, after saying during his confirmation hearing that he had not met with any Russian officials during that period.
But Sessions insisted when he recused himself that he had not talked about the US election campaign with the ambassador. "I never had meetings with Russian operatives or Russian intermediaries about the Trump campaign," he said at the time.
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