Russia’s ambassador to Washington told his superiors
in Moscow that he discussed campaign-related matters, including policy issues
important to Moscow, with Jeff Sessions during the 2016 presidential race,
contrary to public assertions by the embattled attorney general, according to
the Washington Post.
Ambassador Sergey Kislyak’s accounts of two
conversations with Sessions — then a top foreign policy adviser to Republican
candidate Donald Trump — were intercepted by U.S. spy agencies, which monitor
the communications of senior Russian officials in the United States and in
Russia. Sessions initially failed to disclose his contacts with Kislyak and
then said that the meetings were not about the Trump campaign.
One U.S. official said that Sessions — who testified
that he had no recollection of an April encounter — has provided “misleading”
statements that are “contradicted by other evidence.” A former official said
that the intelligence indicates that Sessions and Kislyak had “substantive”
discussions on matters including Trump’s positions on Russia-related issues and
prospects for U.S.-Russia relations in a Trump administration.
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