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Don’t Blame Gowdy: He can’t seize Clinton servers, because Benghazi isn’t a criminal investigation.
National Review ^ | 03/12/2015 | Andrew McCarthy

Posted on 03/12/2015 6:48:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 03/12/2015 6:48:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
isn’t a criminal investigation...

YET

2 posted on 03/12/2015 6:50:42 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: SeekAndFind
Congress has no authority to conduct criminal investigations or to seize evidence. Those are police powers and they belong solely to the executive branch.

Gee, I wonder if Hitlery was aware of this?

3 posted on 03/12/2015 6:51:12 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: SeekAndFind

Judge Napolitano says it won’t be till sometime in 2017 or later because only the DOJ can compel Clinton to comply.


4 posted on 03/12/2015 6:51:34 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: SeekAndFind

Shouldn’t they at least send a letter to the DOJ to ask for them to do it?


5 posted on 03/12/2015 6:53:01 AM PDT by Sybeck1
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HAHAHAHAHA. You’re funny. A sternly worded letter perhaps?


6 posted on 03/12/2015 6:54:32 AM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: SeekAndFind

As I have said, Gowdy is all bark and no bite.


7 posted on 03/12/2015 6:55:33 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (NO MORE IRS!)
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So, you’re saying that he has legal authority to seize Clinton’s email servers?


8 posted on 03/12/2015 6:56:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Obama Regime is a Criminal Enterprise.


9 posted on 03/12/2015 6:56:39 AM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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Can anyone brief me on the laws regarding communications / email for federal employees?

Either that or point towards a web site that can?



10 posted on 03/12/2015 6:57:53 AM PDT by warsaw44
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To: SeekAndFind

Don’t worry. Obama will be issuing a blanket pardon for EVERYONE in his Admin if/when we are able to eject him from the White House. NO ONE will ever be held accountable for all the criminality. It’s the way the Dems, with their sycophant Media, operate.


11 posted on 03/12/2015 7:03:59 AM PDT by originalbuckeye (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; moderation in principle is always a vice. Paine)
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From the article ....

My objection is that, just as the public and the commentariat seem confused about what the committee is for and what it can do, so does the committee. Chairman Gowdy is determined to run the case like a criminal investigation, but it is not one. It is a public-accountability investigation. It is not legal but political in nature – and I mean “political” not in the pejorative sense of partisanship but in the classic sense of accountability for the misuse and abuse of political power.

Several important things flow from that foundational premise. It is often prudent for a prosecutor to take a very long time to undertake a complex investigation involving transactions that occur largely outside the United States. The case is put together in secret, behind the scenes, because the objective is to construct an airtight case that convinces twelve jurors beyond a reasonable doubt to convict people who will be sent to jail for many years. That takes however long it takes.

That is not the case with a public-accountability investigation. Such oversight investigations need to work quickly to correct wayward policies and hold up to public scrutiny officials who may not be up to their weighty responsibilities. The idea is to demonstrate convincingly that changes need to be made, not to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that people need to go to jai

12 posted on 03/12/2015 7:04:25 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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“For ten months, the committee takes virtually no action and conveys the impression that it is not exactly tripping over itself to get to the bottom of Benghazi.”

A political investigation by Congress will go nowhere as long as members of the GOP are compromised. What secrets about their personal lives do they not wish to see the light of day? Nothing but extortion explains the unwillingness of the GOP to fight.


13 posted on 03/12/2015 7:06:51 AM PDT by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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I'm glad to see that McCarthy has issued a bit of a Mea Culpa vis a vis Gowdy and his committee - at least on the subject of a subpoena of the server. But he is still hard over on his view that Gowdy should be running a circus instead of an investigation. He is entitled to that opinion of course but Gowdy told us all in advance that he was going to investigate first and hold hearings second. That's his style. Get used to it.

And note that McCarthy wants us to believe that he has some inside knowledge of what the committee has been doing for 8 months. I really doubt that he does. We'll see when Gowdy puts Hillary under oath in a public hearing. That will be a popular show.

And everyone should note that the Hillary EMail scandal is a direct result of the Trey Gowdy probe into Benghazi. One would think that would be enough for McCarthy. Apparently not.

And, lastly, I would bet $100 to win $10 that McCarthy reads FR. He might even be posting here.

14 posted on 03/12/2015 7:09:02 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (Cruz'n to Victory in 2016)
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And, lastly, I would bet $100 to win $10 that McCarthy reads FR. He might even be posting here.

Trey?

15 posted on 03/12/2015 7:15:04 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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FYI


16 posted on 03/12/2015 7:19:32 AM PDT by Whenifhow
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To: laplata
The Obama Regime is a Communist/Muslim Criminal Enterprise.
17 posted on 03/12/2015 7:21:40 AM PDT by newfreep ("Evil succeeds when good men do nothting" - Edmund Burke)
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To: SeekAndFind
Subpoena her and ask her if she signed the required form to turn in documents for the archives. Then ask if she has turned them in at the time she left service. Get her under oath to testify to a host of thing that can get her to purger herself. This is the delay that most of us are a little worried that this will go nowhere.
18 posted on 03/12/2015 7:23:30 AM PDT by Logical me
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Trey?

Guaranteed. Nobody would take my bet on that one. I'm betting Megyn Kelly or least here staff as well.

19 posted on 03/12/2015 7:23:54 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (Cruz'n to Victory in 2016)
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To: newfreep

The Obama Regime is a Communist/Muslim Criminal Enterprise.


BINGO!


20 posted on 03/12/2015 7:24:55 AM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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