Sessions to appear before Senate panel probing Russian links to election

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions told Congress Saturday he will testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee investigating Russian interference in last year’s presidential election, VOA reported Sunday.

Sessions said he wanted to appear before the panel to address questions about him that arose last week during former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony.

The attorney general, the highest-ranking law-enforcement officer in the nation, said he would testify before the Senate committee Tuesday, presumably under oath. He did not indicate whether the committee would hear him in public or closed session.

The Justice Department, which Sessions heads, has been investigating contacts between the Russian government and President Donald Trump’s campaign organization before last November’s general election, when Trump was a candidate and had not yet been chosen by American voters to be president.

Sessions recused or removed himself from the DOJ investigation during the early days of the Trump administration, because he was one of the campaign officials who had met with Russia’s ambassador to the United States before the election.

Source: MENA