Discussion: DOJ Releases 'Heavily Redacted' Sessions Security Clearance Form

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Shorter article: Sessions releases Nothingburger. Asks if you want lies with that.

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What would this peckerwood have to hide?

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What was redacted? That seems to be main question that this article really needs answered.

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Laws are for suckers. And Democrats. But my Republican’t friends would say I’m being redundant…

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“The only ferriner I met wuz Miz Drysdale. She’s a Yankee!”

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Sessions, Redacted at birth.
In stature, intellect, decency and integrity.

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Wow that was informative. I think he send us a document meant for Donald. That looks about how much he usually reads before turning back to Fox news and twitter.

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They’re all on an ice float and think they’re each safe (they don’t believe in climate change, you see…) but the float is melting at an escalating rate which is causing it to slowly sink. Right now, the water is up to their ankles and rising. One by one, they’ll drop into the sea, never to be seen again.

Guess who will start pushing people over to save himself?

@antisachetdethe - Irene Ryan was wonderful. I saw her in Pippin on Broadway when I was in high school. Ben Vereen, too. Good times…

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I just cannot wait for the next Democratic Attorney General to overlook an untied shoelace and have to undergo several Congressional investigations.

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Sounds like a new Keebler Cookie,

“not only low fat, it’s heavily redacted!”

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It’s downright amazing how easy it is to find analogies for these idiots’ behavior in the GIF-universe…

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Zero? in seven years?? I don’t believe it.

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My suspicion is that Sessions is now in a trap, and he knows it. There is other evidence out there, probably in the presses hands or about to be, and definitely in the FBI/Mueller’s hands that shows Sessions had more meetings that the ones he originally didn’t disclose. He knows its coming, and he knows if he releases his forms publicly without that on them, he is going to be nailed to the wall. But he can’t amend the form for this FOIA request, because he hasn’t actually filed an amended form with the government.

He doesn’t want to file an amended form, I will assume, because he is unsure of which meetings he had that they are aware of. This has been the problem the Trumpers have been wrestling with from the get go, and why they have so actively been seeking to find out what warrants were outstanding and on who. Its not a matter of “we had this one meeting on 6/9 and its really bad. Lets cover it up”. Its more like “We had some many damn secret meetings, I wonder which ones they know about? We need to find out so we can cover THOSE up and just not mention the others at all”

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As Josh has pointed out, heavy redactions may help Sessions win the news cycle, but you can bet Special Counsel Mueller has the nonredacted version. That’s ultimately all that counts.

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No worries, HRC will have had plenty of practice from her last grilling…

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They’re getting a bit of a scare considering the shitstorm Jared’s examined documents—i.e., “forgotten meetings”—have wrought this week with Junior.

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(Answer ‘No’ if the contact was for routine visa applications and border crossing related to either official U.S. Government travel or foreign travel on a U.S. passport, or if you are involved in an epic conspiracy to throw a U.S. Election.)”

All good then.

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Until we see what “heavy redactions” actually means, I am hesitant to speculate too deeply. But my gut feel is, I don’t see how this wins him any news cycles. He turned it over, reluctantly and late. And any claim he makes to be avenged falls apart as soon as the next question is asked, which is"What was redacted and why?"

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Agreed. And not just because of worries about what else is potentially already out there, but because its pretty clear that they are entering the “Every Man For Himself” phase of things.

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