Sessions Defends “Extreme Vetting” & Travel Ban in Wake of NYC Attack

NEW YORK, NY – NOVEMBER 02: Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks about domestic security in New York on November 2, 2017 in New York City. Sessions, the nation’s top law enforcement official, claimed that the Department of Justice has “hundreds” of ongoing terrorism-related investigations into people who came to the U.S. as refugees. New York City is still recovering from Tuesday’s events in which a man inspired by the Islamic State carried out a deadly attack near the World Trade Center with a rented truck. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Posted: November 2nd, 2017

In the wake of this week’s deadly terrorist attack in New York City, Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday defended the Trump administration’s so-called “extreme vetting” measures and rebuked technology companies for failing to quickly provide law enforcement with encrypted information to assist terrorism investigations.

He also defended the U.S. legal system, a day after President Donald Trump called it a “joke” and a “laughing stock.”

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