Sessions Is Not Trump's Lawyer

BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
OCT 18, 2017

That was quite a puppet show that Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, the Attorney General of these United States, put on before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. He was there for the stonewall and by god he took care of that ...

He seemed to be making a tacit — and .. less than tacit — argument that he is somehow the lawyer .. for the president ... Somewhere in the Beyond, the shades of John Mitchell and Richard Kleindienst were nodding at the whole idea.

Treating the DOJ like the house law firm is how we got Watergate. It was how then-AG .. Meese gave the Iran-Contra conspirators a window to shred those .. inconvenient documents that were not smuggled out in Fawn Hall's lingerie. It doesn't much matter if the Postmaster General thinks he is an employee of the president and not a public servant, but having the attorney general feel that way is an invitation .. to sanctified corruption. If JeffBo is more than halfway down that path, it will surprise .. nobody ...

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a13047311/jeff-sessions-trump-lawyer-attorney-general/