There’s Almost No Chance Jeff Sessions Committed Perjury
Posted: March 2, 2017 Filed under: Law & Justice, Politics | Tags: Democratic Party (United States), Federal Bureau of Investigation, Jeff Sessions, Republican Party (United States), The Washington Post, United States Department of Justice, United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary 1 Comment
Kevin Daley reports: Journalists and Democrats in Congress were far too quick to speculate that Attorney General Jeff Sessions perjured himself during his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, after The Washington Post revealed he had failed to disclose two meetings with the Russian ambassador to the U.S.
“There are three elements here: a statement must be false, the false statement must be material (relevant) to the question/s asked, and the false statement must be made with an intent to deceive.”
Perjury is the crime of willfully telling an untruth while under oath before a court or tribunal. Sessions’ failure to disclose contacts with Russian officials is disappointing, but doesn’t qualify as perjury within the meaning of federal law.
The federal perjury statute reads as follows … (read more)
Source: The Daily Caller
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