Attorney General Jeff Sessions did not reveal meetings with Russian officials when he applied for his security clearance to serve as the nation’s highest-ranking law enforcement official. That same information was omitted from Sessions’s security clearance form, which is known as an SF-86, as first reported Wednesday night by CNN. The security clearance form requires anyone applying for a security clearance to list “any contact” that he or his family had with a foreign government or its representatives over the past seven years. In late November, after the election, the Sessions staffer helped Sessions fill out a new security clearance form, but did not ask the FBI the same question again — and did not list all the contacts. Read more:Deputy attorney general appoints special counsel to oversee probe of Russian interference

Source: Washington Post May 25, 2017 00:22 UTC