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Jeff Sessions's Selective Memory

The attorney general’s sworn testimony before the Senate is at odds with other accounts.
Source: Lucas Jackson / Reuters

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is facing renewed questions about his sworn testimony before the Senate in the aftermath of reports that he was told about contacts at least two former Trump campaign officials had with Russia.

The former Trump foreign-policy adviser Carter Page told the House Intelligence Committee that he informed Sessions about a trip he took to Russia in July.  Separately,  a participant in a March 2016 meeting of Trump’s foreign-policy advisers

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