The following article by Amber Phillips was posted on the Washington Post website July 22, 2017:
The accounts from Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak to his superiors, intercepted by U.S. spy agencies, contradict public assertions by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The Post’s Greg Miller explains. (Sarah Parnass/The Washington Post)
As members of the Trump campaign team defend themselves from questions about contact with Russians, a common explanation has been: 1) It’s normal to meet with foreign officials and 2) We forgot about those meetings, because they were so normal.
To which former U.S. intelligence officials and security experts say: Those meetings are not normal, at least not in this extraordinary moment. Continue reading “Sometimes it’s ‘normal’ to meet with foreign officials. For Jeff Sessions and the Russian ambassador, it wasn’t.”