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During this week's House Judiciary Committee hearing, the attorney general's peculiarly porous memory inspired much frustration among members of Congress eager to pin Sessions down on critical facts relating to Russian efforts to tamper with the 2016 election. In his questioning, representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York noted that over the course of three hearings, Sessions had said "I don't recall," in some form, upwards of 85 times.

Some of that count includes duplicates, cases where Sessions answered the same question two or more times. But we checked the record and found 47 distinct instances in which Sessions conveniently drew a blank, including occasions where his answers changed slightly. Funny how that happens. Here's everything Jeff Sessions has forgotten under oath this year, along with some especially baffling direct quotes:


More: https://www.wired.com/story/everything-jeff-sessions-did-not-recall-under-oath/




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