Russian envoy overheard saying he discussed campaign with Sessions: Washington Post

Record ID: 903579

  • Title: Russian envoy overheard saying he discussed campaign with Sessions: Washington Post
  • Date: 21st July 2017
  • Summary: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (FILE - JUNE 13, 2017) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF SESSIONS SWEARING-IN FOR HEARING
  • Embargoed: 5th August 2017 00:57
  • Keywords: Jeff Sessions Ambassador Sergei Kislyak Attorney General Trump campaign U.S. intelligence agencies
  • Location: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES
  • City: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
  • Reuters ID: LVA0066QNWZ0N
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Russia's ambassador to Washington was overheard by U.S. spy agencies telling his bosses he had discussed campaign-related matters, including issues important to Moscow, with Jeff Sessions during the 2016 presidential race, the Washington Post reported on Friday (July 21), citing current and former U.S. officials.
    Ambassador Sergei Kislyak's accounts of two conversations with Sessions, then a U.S. senator and key foreign policy adviser to Republican candidate Donald Trump, were intercepted by U.S. intelligence agencies, the officials told the Post.
    Sessions at first failed to disclose his contacts with Kislyak and then said the meetings were not about the Trump campaign.
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