5 Jan 2018 10:00 pm
This has to send chills through the DOJ.
It looks like Sessions may be complicit in obstruction of justice.Sessions Sought Dirt On Comey
Three days after US attorney general Jeff Sessions officially recused himself from the probe into the Trump campaign’s Russia ties, Sessions tried to discredit then-FBI director James Comey, according to a richly reported New York Times story (paywall).
An aide to Sessions asked a Capitol Hill staffer whether he had dirt on Comey, explaining that Sessions wanted “one negative article a day in the news media” about him, the Times writes.
A Justice Department spokeswoman denied the events to the Times, saying “this did not happen and would not happen,” but in an interview with the Lawfare podcast, the article’s author Michael Schmidt said the paper was “comfortable” with the story’s accuracy.
Sessions’ ploy to get damaging information on Comey was “part of an apparent effort to undermine the FBI director,” the Times writes.
Former US attorney Preet Bharara, a Democrat, suggested doing this should be enough for an attorney general to be dismissed.
https://qz.com/1172777/jeff-sessions-so ... sia-probe/