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Washington Post: Sessions discussed Trump campaign with Russian ambassador, per intel intercepts
WaPo: Sessions discussed Trump campaign with Russian Ambassador Kislyak 01:16
Washington (CNN)Attorney
General Jeff Sessions met with the Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey
Kislyak to discuss Trump campaign matters during the 2016 presidential
election, according to US intelligence intercepts, The Washington Post reports.
According
to the Post, Kislyak told his superiors in Moscow about two
conversations he had with Sessions, which included a discussion on
policy issues important to the Kremlin. Sessions was a foreign policy
adviser to Trump and major campaign supporter at the time.
Sessions
originally never disclosed any interactions he had with Kislyak, but a
meeting first came to light in March when the Post reported that he met with Kislyak at an event during the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
Sessions
met with Kislyak for a second time during the presidential campaign,
this time in his Senate office in Washington. This meeting, in
September, also wasn't publicly known until the Post reported about it in March.
Sessions did not disclose
either meeting when he applied for his security clearance. He also did
not mention it when he was asked about contact with Russians during his
Senate confirmation hearings earlier this year. Sessions denied any
campaign-related meetings with Russians at the confirmation hearings, saying, "I did not have communications with the Russians."
The
revelations that he had met with Kislyak led to calls for Sessions to
recuse himself from overseeing the FBI investigation into potential
collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Sessions ultimately
agreed to step aside from the investigation.
Justice
Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said in a statement to CNN
that she could not comment on the Post's report on Friday.
"Obviously
I cannot comment on the reliability of what anonymous sources describe
in a wholly uncorroborated intelligence intercept that the Washington
Post has not seen and that has not been provided to me," she said. "But
the attorney general stands by his testimony from just last month before
the Senate Intelligence Committee, when he specifically addressed this
and said that he 'never met with or had any conversations with any
Russians or any foreign officials concerning any type of interference
with any campaign or election.'"
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