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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat are the 2 dates of the Sessions meetings?
I'm curious to match it up with what followed in the campaign...
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What are the 2 dates of the Sessions meetings? (Original Post)
themaguffin
Mar 2017
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still_one
(92,325 posts)1. A blonde and a brunete
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)5. Hee hee hee - thanks for the giggle..
Especially needed at a time when I don't laugh much anymore...
still_one
(92,325 posts)6. thanks. This whole situation is unbelievable
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)2. The WP post article mentioned two meetings, but not the exact dates.
July at the convention and September in his office.
Johnny2X2X
(19,095 posts)3. RNC was July 19-21 leaks started July 22nd
This is the smoking gun. Sessions asked them to start leaking and they did right away. In fact, intercepted communications suggest Russia had reservations about getting as involved as they were being asked to do.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)4. Once was at the RNC Convention, the other in September
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One of the meetings was a private conversation between Sessions and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak that took place in September in the senators office, at the height of what U.S. intelligence officials say was a Russian cyber campaign to upend the U.S. presidential race.
<SNIP>
Justice officials said Sessions met with Kislyak on Sept. 8 in his capacity as a member of the armed services panel rather than in his role as a Trump campaign surrogate.
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Two months before the September meeting, Sessions attended a Heritage Foundation event in July on the sidelines of the Republican National Convention that was attended by about 50 ambassadors. When the event was over, a small group of ambassadors approached Sessions as he was leaving the podium, and Kislyak was among them, the Justice Department official said.
Sessions then spoke individually to some of the ambassadors, including Kislyak, the official said. In the informal exchanges, the ambassadors expressed appreciation for his remarks and some of them invited him to events they were sponsoring, said the official, citing a former Sessions staffer who was at the event.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/sessions-spoke-twice-with-russian-ambassador-during-trumps-presidential-campaign-justice-officials-say/2017/03/01/77205eda-feac-11e6-99b4-9e613afeb09f_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_sessions-920pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
One of the meetings was a private conversation between Sessions and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak that took place in September in the senators office, at the height of what U.S. intelligence officials say was a Russian cyber campaign to upend the U.S. presidential race.
<SNIP>
Justice officials said Sessions met with Kislyak on Sept. 8 in his capacity as a member of the armed services panel rather than in his role as a Trump campaign surrogate.
<SNIP>
Two months before the September meeting, Sessions attended a Heritage Foundation event in July on the sidelines of the Republican National Convention that was attended by about 50 ambassadors. When the event was over, a small group of ambassadors approached Sessions as he was leaving the podium, and Kislyak was among them, the Justice Department official said.
Sessions then spoke individually to some of the ambassadors, including Kislyak, the official said. In the informal exchanges, the ambassadors expressed appreciation for his remarks and some of them invited him to events they were sponsoring, said the official, citing a former Sessions staffer who was at the event.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/sessions-spoke-twice-with-russian-ambassador-during-trumps-presidential-campaign-justice-officials-say/2017/03/01/77205eda-feac-11e6-99b4-9e613afeb09f_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_sessions-920pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)7. I found this thread on twitter that may be helpful: