Talk:William S. Sessions

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There's a federal judge named William Sessions.[1] Same guy? (I know he was one - did he go back to it?) Kwantus 17:40, 2004 Dec 23 (UTC)

Screenshot

How about adding a screenshot of the (in)famous "winners don't use drugs"?

Stuck one up yesterday. Kinitawowi 11:32, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

Reasons for Firing

Sessions was removed from office one day before the body of Vince Foster was found, which ultimately caused the matter to be investegated by the National Park Sevice Police Department. Had the agency not been in a state of turmoil, the case would have most certainly been transferred into the jurisdiction of the FBI. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.150.30.158 (talk) 06:30, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

If someone wants to source it, there were a number of other ethical complaints: had a fence built at his home that reduced security at the FBI's expense. Gave his wife classified, unescorted access pass. His assistant was accused of a number of improprieties and he refused to release her (though whether that's relevant in his bio, I wonder). Kept an unloaded gun in his limo so he could avoid paying income tax on the benefit. There's actually quite a list, both in the ABC TV news special and Kessler's book. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.197.183.28 (talk) 19:47, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

There was also, at the time, an article in the Village Voice (I think) arguing that many of the violations were either trumped-up or selective enforcement, that the report was retaliation by the bureau's Old Guard for his efforts to modernize the bureau, specifically on racial-sensitivity issues, which included hiring more minorities and women. Daniel Case (talk) 16:56, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Reason for Friction with Bush Administration

"Despite being a Republican who was appointed by Reagan, Sessions disappointed the administration of President George H. W. Bush for not being partisan ..." You give no citation for this, so it's unclear what you're talking about or what the reason for conflict was. In the absence of supporting information, details, and references "not being partisan" sounds like a pretty partisan judgement itself. Maybe Sessions, who did enough to get himself fired by Clinton, was suspected of finagling during the Bush years, or maybe it was a matter of Sessions and Thornburg not getting along, or maybe he was just unlikeable. If you have actual information about how and in what cases Sessions wasn't partisan please supply it, otherwise consider rewriting the sentence. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.162.253.101 (talk) 23:14, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Bot-created subpage

A temporary subpage at User:Polbot/fjc/William Steele Sessions was automatically created by a perl script, based on this article at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. The subpage should either be merged into this article, or moved and disambiguated. Polbot (talk) 20:34, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

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Vicky vs Vicki

Everyone seems to write Vicki Weaver, not Vicky Weaver. --217.225.47.56 (talk) 21:26, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

Janet Reno - Ruby Ridge

“Sessions was FBI director during the controversial 1992 confrontation at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, during which the unarmed Vicky Weaver was shot dead by an FBI sniper during an AG Janet Reno authorized multi-agency Federal raid on a known anti-government militia site. ”

Reno was not Attorney General until 1993. Americaninventive (talk) 06:34, 4 April 2022 (UTC)