Posted on 12/16/2017 3:18:19 PM PST by mandaladon
Former House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, Saturday called for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to be removed from office, saying that may be a cure for the "deep systemic problems" in the Department of Justice.
"It pains me to say this a little bit [but] I don't think the attorney general is up to the job he's doing," Chaffetz, now a contributor for Fox News, told the "Fox and Friends Saturday" program.
Sessions "had to remove himself from everything" involving President Donald Trump and that led to the appointment of Robert Mueller as special investigator in the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, said Chaffetz.
He also criticized the attorney general for not taking on a more active role in digging up information about several controversial figures at the DOJ, including Agent Peter Strzok, who was removed from the investigation after a series of anti-Trump text messages between him and a fellow agent were discovered.
Chaffetz said that Sessions also had told him that he would not prosecute Bryan Pagliano, Hillary Clinton's former chief tech staffer, who had refused a Congressional subpoena to testify about the 2016 Democratic nominee's use of a private email server.
Sessions had also refused to make documents on the Fast and Furious scandal public following the death of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, Chaffetz said.
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“Sessions had also refused to make documents on the Fast and Furious scandal public following the death of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, Chaffetz said.”
He should be fired just for that.
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>> “Can’t think of anything Sessions has done that can be considered positive.” <<
Can’t think of anything Sessions has done.
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Who’s out there? The fat NJ Gov? Rudy-too old.
Sessions has been Trump’s biggest mistake, and as a result of his appointment, a valuable senate seat has been lost and the Mueller debacle was launched. Sessions is the proverbial gift that keeps on giving.
He’s making a mockery out of almost every branch of government.
He thinks he’s following the time honored tradition of let the previous administration off so’s not to create a purge fest or political witch hunt after every administration change.
My opinion is, drop that nonsense right now. These are people who clearly did illegal things, flaunted it and totally disregarded Congressional and Senatorial oversight not to mention the law.
Where’s Jeff Sessions?
I agree. What Sessions need to do is put it to Meuller. Does he consider the abuse of power by the Obama administration in the investigation of the Trump campaign to be in or out of his jurisdiction? If so then investigate. If not then the DOJ will investigate. I am pretty confident that he will say it’s out of his jurisdiction because if he doesn’t then he’ll have to recuse himself since he worked for Obama.
He’s nowhere. Get rid of him. I can’t believe I was excited at his pick. Ugh!
YES!!!!!!!!
That is a sad but true summary!
Painful
Jason Chaffetz, you’re former, so shut up!
He’s defining new ways to sleep on the job.
Hold on, in a few seconds the “Sessions is secretly working on it” crowd will jump in.
I still don’t understand why Trump diff not put Rudy into the AG role. Just saying.
“Can’t think of anything Sessions has done that can be considered positive.”
“Can’t think of anything Sessions has done.”
Well he does support civil asset forfeiture... oh wait.
Hey Sessions time to wake up from your year long nap.
Actually Sessions Yugest mistake was to hire Rosenweasel as his assistant.
Sessions has expressed deep support for the Oregon and Nevada prosecutions/persecutions coming from the Deep State BLM fascists.
Call him Jeff “Van Winkle” Sessions. The napster
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