Jeff Sessions Had No Choice -

Jeff Sessions Had No Choice -
By THE EDITORIAL BOARDMARCH 2, 2017
It’s no great credit to Attorney General Jeff Sessions
that he finally recused himself from all Justice Department investigations relating to the 2016 presidential campaign — and specifically from all current or future inquiries into Russian attempts to influence the election.
Sessions said under oath that he was “not aware of any of those activities.” Then, without prompting, he volunteered, “I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in
that campaign and I did not have communications with the Russians.”
Sessions met twice with Mr. Kislyak, once at the Republican National Convention in July, and again in his Senate office in September — around the time
that Russian efforts to meddle in the election on behalf of Mr. Trump reached their peak.
Just a few weeks ago, the president fired Michael Flynn, his national security adviser, for
misleading Vice President Mike Pence about his contacts with the Russian ambassador.
On Thursday, he said he “never had meetings with Russian operatives or Russian intermediaries” about the campaign.