Posted on 07/18/2016 9:44:53 AM PDT by yoe
If, God forbid, she is POTUS 20 JAN 17, she'd have to receive them.
Well, I like that, Paul!
Maybe because he is. It doesn't matter if he's right, it's not his call to make.
Too little too late.
Now once she is defeated they can make that request and it can be granted, but not right now.
You just reminded my that I need to send him another donation.
Does anybody really think that they would last in their "careers" until after the election? Retribution would be immediate.
The Intelligence Community can’t make that choice!
If she is a candidate she will get briefings. I don’t remember if it’s statutory law or not even if it isn’t it’s a executive branch not a legislative branch decision. So we know how that will turn out!
Ryan is just posturing and by doing so is showing his contempt for the average voter. He must be running scared!
More Kabuki Theater from Lyn’ Ryan.
Exactly. Ryan is just trying to look like he isn't part of the uni-party by demanding something that he knows won't happen.
Really, Ryan? Maybe you should do your job before you tell anyone else to.
The House should impeach 0bama.
What is it with this guy? Always somebody else needs to do something. Will someone please point out to him he is the Speaker of the House? Arguably the third most powerful man in America.
Or the second most powerful suck-up.
Anything you give Hillary will go straight to the Russians.
Nothing more than grandstanding on Ryan’s part and he knows it’ll never happen. Hitlery could take a TS/SCI briefing and hand it to an Iranian intelligence officer in front of a national TV crew and nothing would be done.
Why, Eddie?
So that you can brief her in secret when no one’s looking?
Not exactly.
Chiiiiit Huma knows more about our intelligence than Cankles will ever know
Pretty Damned funny coming from a Guy who has had the ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY TO LOCK HER UP IN PRISON since he became Speaker.
Drop Dead RYAN, you quisling POS.
Congress has ALL the power in washington, the executive and judicial branch operate according to the whims of CONGRESS!
“U.S. CODE
TITLE 2—THE CONGRESS
CHAPTER 6—CONGRESSIONAL AND COMMITTEE PROCEDURE; INVESTIGATIONS
Sec. 193. Privilege of witnesses
No witness is privileged to refuse to testify to any fact, or to produce any paper, respecting which he shall be examined by either House of Congress, or by any joint committee established by a joint or concurrent resolution of the two Houses of Congress, or by any committee of either House, upon the ground that his testimony to such fact or his production of such paper may tend to disgrace him or otherwise render him infamous.”
Simply look up Hinds Precedents, especially chapters 53 and 51, and Cannon’s Precedents, especially chapters 184-185. You’ll find numerous detailed cases of Congress asserting its power, arresting people, holding them until they agreed to answer questions, and then releasing them. Some of these people did not refuse to appear, but simply failed to satisfactorily answer questions. One has to wonder how a previous Congress might have responded to Alberto Gonzales’s endless recitations of “I do not recall.”
Congress can Remove the President
Congress can remove the head of every executive agency Congress can remove ALL of their employees
Congress can Abolish every agency they so choose
Congress can remove EVERY JUDGE IN AMERICA, including every supreme court justice.
Congress can abolish every federal court except the supreme Court
Congress can decide which cases the Judicial Branch can hear and decide
CONGRESS can Imprison ANYONE they want for any reason they so desire for as long as they wish.
Congress can declare WAR
No other governing body has even 10% of the power CONGRESS has!!
CONGRESS IS ALLOWING ALL OF IT!!!
Congress has the authority to arrest and imprison those found in Contempt. The power extends throughout the United States and is an inherent power (does not depend upon legislated act)
If found in Contempt the person can be arrested under a warrant of the Speaker of the House of Representatives or President of the Senate, by the respective Sergeant at Arms.
Statutory criminal contempt is an alternative to inherent contempt.
Under the inherent contempt power Congress may imprison a person for a specific period of time or an indefinite period of time, except a person imprisoned by the House of Representatives may not be imprisoned beyond adjournment of a session of Congress.
Imprisonment may be coercive or punitive.
Some references
[1] Joseph Story’s Commentaries on the Constitution, Volume 2, § 842 http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/print_documents/a1_5s21.html
[2] Anderson v. Dunn - 19 U.S. 204 - “And, as to the distance to which the process might reach, it is very clear that there exists no reason for confining its operation to the limits of the District of Columbia; after passing those limits, we know no bounds that can be prescribed to its range but those of the United States.” http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/19/204/case.html
[3] Jurney v. MacCracken, 294 U.S. 125 http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/294/125/case.html 73rd Cong., 78 Cong. Rec. 2410 (1934) https://archive.org/details/congressionalrec78aunit
[4] McGrain v. Daugherty, 273 U.S. 135 - Under a warrant issued by the President of the Senate the Deputy to the Senate Sergeant at Arms arrested at Cincinnati, Ohio, Mally S. Daugherty, who had been twice subpoenaed by the Senate and twice failed to appear. http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/273/135/case.html
[5] Rules of the House of Representatives, Rule IV Duties of the Sergeant at Arms - [] execute the commands of the House, and all processes issued by authority thereof, directed to him by the Speaker. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/HMAN-105/pdf/HMAN-105-pg348.pdf
[6] An analysis of Congressional inquiry, subpoena, and enforcement http://www.constitutionproject.org/documents/when-congress-comes-calling-a-primer-on-the-principles-practices-and-pragmatics-of-legislative-inquiry/
In 1857, a New York Times reporter refused to say which members of Congress had asked him to get them bribes (protecting his “sources” just as various Judith Millers today protect the people who feed them proven lies that costs thousands of lives), so Congress locked him up until he answered and then banned him from Congress.
In 1924 an oil executive appeared but refused to answer certain questions, so the Senate held — literally held — him in contempt. Senator Thomas Walsh of Montana argued that this question of contempt was of the gravest importance, and that it involved “the very life of the effective existence of the House of Representatives of the United States and of the Senate of the United States.” The matter was taken to court, and the witness fined and imprisoned.
I’m late to the party but HOW ABOUT briefing her with disinformation and see what leaks....That would be splendid because we all know she can’t keep her mouth shut and also who she has around her as her aides who would blab.
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