{"id":93816,"date":"2018-02-03T09:04:41","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T13:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=93816"},"modified":"2018-02-03T09:05:07","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T13:05:07","slug":"jeff-sessions-needs-to-go-the-enabler-ags-response-to-fisagate-demands-immediate-dismissal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=93816","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Sessions needs to go! The enabler AG&#8217;s response to <i>FISAgate<\/i> demands immediate dismissal."},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Jeff Sessions on Nunes Memo: &#8216;No Department Is Perfect&#8217;<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_93818\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/GetFile.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93818\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/GetFile.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/GetFile.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/GetFile-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-93818\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Mark Wilson\/Getty Images)<br \/><\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>By Jason Devaney<br \/>\nNEWSMAX<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Jeff Sessions reacted to a Republican memo detailing government surveillance on the Trump campaign by saying &#8220;no department is perfect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hours after the document written by Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/headline\/trump-memo-declassified\/2018\/02\/02\/id\/841108\/\"><strong>declassified and released,<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Sessions weighed in via a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Congress had made inquiries concerning an issue of great importance for the country and concerns have been raised about the Department&#8217;s performance. I have great confidence in the men and women of this Department. But no Department is perfect,&#8221; Sessions said, according to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.axios.com\/jeff-sessions-on-nunes-memo-no-department-is-perfect--f4d3c702-2d01-4329-83e0-8135fd1e0e1f.html\"><strong>Axios.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Accordingly, I will forward to appropriate DOJ components all information I receive from Congress regarding this. I am determined that we will fully and fairly ascertain the truth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We work for the American people and are accountable to them and those they have elected. We will meet that responsibility.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/docs.house.gov\/meetings\/IG\/IG00\/20180129\/106822\/HMTG-115-IG00-20180129-SD001.pdf\"><strong>The document<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0discusses how the DOJ\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/politics\/devin-nunes-fisa-memo-trump-dossier-spying\/2018\/02\/02\/id\/841150\/\"><strong>obtained a FISA warrant<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to spy on Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page. Nunes alleged that the department used both a scandalous, unverified dossier about Trump and a news story as probable cause for the warrant.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/politics\/jeff-sessions-nunes-memo-doj-fisa\/2018\/02\/02\/id\/841196\/\">http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/politics\/jeff-sessions-nunes-memo-doj-fisa\/2018\/02\/02\/id\/841196\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Sessions on Nunes Memo: &#8216;No Department Is Perfect&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}