{"id":5730,"date":"2017-11-25T13:05:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-25T20:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5730"},"modified":"2018-12-08T19:51:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T02:51:41","slug":"the-ol-i-dont-recall-ploy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5730","title":{"rendered":"The Ol&#8217; &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Recall&#8221; Ploy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again,\u00a0Attorney Confederate General, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III has broken out the ol&#8217; tried and true &#8220;I don&#8217;t recall&#8221; ploy. We&#8217;ve commented before about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5545\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his stonewalling<\/a>. But recently, Sessions doubled down the tactic showing selective memory concerning meetings with the Russians. He stated that he had no recollection of the March 2016 meeting with George Papadopolous until he saw the news reports and then he suddenly remembered.\u00a0So <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/14\/us\/politics\/jeff-sessions-congress-russia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in short:\u00a0Sessions said he could not remember much about Russian influence on the Trump campaign, except when he could block such influence.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One thing&#8217;s for sure: Sessions is sure doing conservative Republican icon, St. Ronald Reagan, proud. Whether it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5317\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">perjury<\/a>\u00a0or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5490\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">using the Department of Justice for political investigations<\/a> or just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5256\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">out and out racism<\/a>, Sessions is proving himself worthy of the greatest obstructionists in Republican history and considering the last seventy years: Allen Dulles&#8217; CIA, Watergate, Iran Contra, the Iraq War, the Great Recession, etc&#8230; that&#8217;s saying something.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5738\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5738\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5738\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sessionsdoesntrecallrussianmeetingsreagan1.jpg\" alt=\"The ghost of conservative icon, St Ronald Reagan, approves of Attorney Confederate General, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, using the ol' &quot;I don't recall&quot; ploy, which he used effectively to avoid telling the truth during his presidency.\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sessionsdoesntrecallrussianmeetingsreagan1.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sessionsdoesntrecallrussianmeetingsreagan1-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5738\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ghost of conservative icon, St Ronald Reagan, approves of Attorney Confederate General, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, using the ol&#8217; &#8220;I don&#8217;t recall&#8221; ploy, which he used effectively to avoid telling the truth during his presidency.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again,\u00a0Attorney Confederate General, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III has broken out the ol&#8217; tried and true &#8220;I don&#8217;t recall&#8221; ploy. We&#8217;ve commented before about his stonewalling. But recently, Sessions doubled down the tactic showing selective memory concerning meetings with the Russians. He stated that he had no recollection of the March 2016 meeting with George &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5730\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Ol&#8217; &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Recall&#8221; Ploy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1848,61,60,8,68,85,3,198],"tags":[1518,252,69,1502,22,20,389,27,9,1370,897,663,199,668,1519,98,596,296,257,19,1371,871,1503,47,48,1034,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5730"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5730"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6413,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5730\/revisions\/6413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}