The revelation came in a response from the Justice Department to an inquiry from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Robert Goodlatte, R-Va., who in July and again in September called for Sessions to appoint a second special counsel to investigate concerns he had related to the 2016 election and its aftermath. The president has publicly lambasted his attorney general and noted, had he known in advance of Sessions’s recusal, he would not have appointed him to the post. It was after Sessions’s recusal that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Robert Mueller to lead the investigation into the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. Sessions, who was a Republican senator for Alabama before he was appointed attorney general, is also set to testify before Goodlatte’s committee on Tuesday and was likely to face questions on the topics raised in the letter. A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment for this article, as did a lawyer for Comey.

Source: National Post November 14, 2017 03:58 UTC