by JOEL B. POLLAK
\nBreitbart.com<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Washington Post<\/em> reports<\/a> that Sessions met Sergey Kislyak once at a Heritage Foundation event in July 2016, where other ambassadors were also present. It also reports that Sessions met with Kislyak in his Senate office in September, in his capacity on the Senate Armed Services Committee.<\/p>\n The hook on which the\u00a0Post<\/em> attempts to hang Sessions is that he did not disclose the meetings to the Senate when he was asked about \u201cpossible contacts between members of President Trump\u2019s campaign and representatives of Moscow.\u201d Sessions\u2019s spokesperson at the Department of Justice, Sarah Isgur Flores, says his\u00a0answer\u00a0in January was\u00a0truthful\u00a0because he was asked about \u201cthe Trump campaign \u2014 not about meetings he took as a senator and a member of the Armed Services Committee.\u201d<\/p>\n The\u00a0Post<\/em> does not provide the full transcript of the question, from Sen. Al Franken (D-MN), and Sessions\u2019s answer. Instead it summarizes the exchange in a way that makes it seem that Sessions was asked if there was\u00a0any contact at all<\/em> between the campaign and representatives of the Russian government.<\/p>\n In fact, what Sessions was asked about was sustained, ongoing communications \u2014 a core accusation in the dubious \u201cdossier<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n