Washington : US Attorney General Jeff Sessions insisted in a letter to Congress he was “correct” to say he did not have communications with Russians as part of the presidential campaign although he twice met with Moscow’s ambassador.
In the letter Sessions said he did not tell legislators sooner about those meetings because he thought he had fully answered the particular question he was asked, The Washington Post reported.
Sessions acknowledged he spoke briefly to Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland and that he met with Kislyak in his Senate office in September although he did not recall talking about the campaign.
“I do not recall any discussions with the Russian ambassador, or any other representative of the Russian government, regarding the political campaign on these occasions or any other occasion.”
At his confirmation hearing in January, Senator Al Franken had asked Sessions what he would do as A-G if there was any evidence that anyone affiliated with the Trump campaign communicated with the Russian government during the course of the campaign, the daily said. Sessions responded, “I’m not aware of any of those activities. I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and I didn’t have — did not have communications with the Russians, and I’m unable to comment on it.”
“My answer was correct,” Sessions wrote in his letter. “As I noted in my public statement… I was surprised by the allegations in the question, which I had not heard before. I answered the question which asked about a “…exchange of information during the campaign between Trump’s surrogates and intermediaries for the Russian government”, honestly. I did not mention communications I had had with the Russian ambassador over the yea- rs because the question did not ask about them.” IANS
