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The End of Sessions?

<p>According to the <em>Washington Post<&sol;em>&comma; Attorney General Jeff Sessions will soon be launching an investigation into the various White House leaks that have plagued Trump during the past six months&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>These leaks seemed to have &ldquo&semi;emanated from the Justice Department and various intelligence agencies&comma;&rdquo&semi; reports <em>Politico&period;<&sol;em>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>News of the investigation comes after newly-appointed White House Press Secretary Anthony Scaramucci announced he was ready to &ldquo&semi;fire everybody&rdquo&semi; to stop information leaks from the press office&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>President Trump has grown increasingly critical of Sessions in recent days&comma; badmouthing him on Twitter and complaining that his decision to recuse himself from the Russia investigation was &ldquo&semi;unfair&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;Jeff Sessions takes the job&comma; gets into the job&comma; recuses himself&comma; which frankly I think is very unfair to the president&comma;&rdquo&semi; said Trump&period; &ldquo&semi;How do you take a job and then recuse yourself&quest; &&num;8230&semi;It&rsquo&semi;s extremely unfair &ndash&semi; and that&rsquo&semi;s a mild word &ndash&semi; to the president&period;&rdquo&semi; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On Tuesday&comma; Trump told reports that Sessions needs to be &ldquo&semi;much tougher on leaks in the intelligence agencies that are leaking like they never have before&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On Wednesday&comma; Scaramucci confirmed Sessions plans to do so&colon; &ldquo&semi;I think he has got a plan that he&rsquo&semi;s put together&comma; and at some point&comma; I don&rsquo&semi;t know if it will be today&comma; tomorrow or next week&comma; he will announce that plan&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; the Deep State is said to be in possession of intelligence intercepts that suggest Sessions had &ldquo&semi;substantive&rdquo&semi; discussions on &ldquo&semi;campaign-related matters&rdquo&semi; with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak before he was appointed Attorney General&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Deep State did not provide actual documents&comma; preferring instead to verbally describe the documents to the <em>Post<&sol;em>&period; All sources are anonymous&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In March&comma; Sessions said that he did not have &ldquo&semi;meetings with Russian operatives or Russian intermediaries about the Trump campaign&rdquo&semi; and met with Kislyak only in his capacity as a Senator&period; The intercepts seem to contradict these statements&comma; but it is unlikely the intercepts are accurate&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The DOJ did not comment on the story due to lack of reliable sourcing&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;Obviously I cannot comment on the reliability of what anonymous sources describe in a wholly uncorroborated intelligence intercept that the <em>Washington Post<&sol;em> has not seen and that has not been provided to me&comma;&rdquo&semi; said DOJ spokesperson Sarah Isgur Flores&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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