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Well That Didn’t Take Long, Sessions Backs Down on Clinton Foundation Probe

For a very brief moment, there was hope that the Justice Department would appoint a second special counsel to investigate the Clinton Foundation and the shady Russian uranium deal.

According to reports on Monday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions had instructed DOJ officials to look into congressional Republican requests to determine whether the uranium deal that took place under the Obama regime merited government scrutiny.

But those hopes were quickly dashed when squishy Sessions was grilled by the House Judiciary Committee in a disgrace of a hearing during which Democrats hit him with every variation of the Russian conspiracy theory imaginable and threw in Roy Moore to boot.

By the end of it all, Sessions had once again run up the white flag, a good sign that he has recused himself from anything but waging a war on pot for as long as he is in office.

Via The Hill “Sessions resists GOP pressure on Clinton probe”:

Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday resisted calls from Republicans that he appoint a second special counsel to investigate a slate of conservative allegations related to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

In a marathon appearance before the House Judiciary Committee, the pressure the former Alabama senator faces from his own party and the White House was at the forefront even as he endured tough questions from Democrats.

The most memorable exchange of the day came when Sessions told a testy Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), a leading voice among House conservatives, that it would take “a factual basis that meets the standard of a special counsel” for the Justice Department to appoint a special prosecutor.

“We will use the proper standards and that’s the only thing I can tell you, Mr. Jordan,” Sessions said. “You can have your idea, but sometimes we have to study what the facts are and to evaluate whether it meets the standards it requires.”

Sessions on Tuesday did not entirely close the door to a probe and later clarified that he had made no “prejudgment” on the need for a new special counsel.

He testified that he has directed senior Justice Department prosecutors to “evaluate” the concerns raised by conservatives — including whether any merit the appointment of a special counsel.

But it was apparent throughout the five-and-a-half-hour hearing that his refusal so far to appoint a special prosecutor is frustrating Republicans.

The entire article can be read HERE.

President Trump has admittedly made some very big mistakes (firing Michael Flynn, not purging Obama loyalists among others) but it is looking like his appointment of Sessions as the nation’s top law enforcement official is the mother of all screw ups.

But in Trump’s credit, Sessions was not honest with his future boss who was blindsided by the former senator’s immediate recusal from the great Russian witch hunt of 2017.

Sessions is as worthless as a glass eye at a keyhole and this is especially the case when it comes to the investigation of political corruption scandals that are staggering in size such as the Russian uranium scam.

Oh, and despite Session’s touting a number of leak investigations, nobody has yet to be nailed for the torrents of illegal leakage of classified information to the Washington Post, New York Times, CNN and other Deep State mouthpieces.

At this point it’s probably time to give up on Sessions who barring a miracle will probably go down as one of the worst Attorney Generals in U.S. history in terms of doing his job.

via Downtrend.com

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