Posted on 03/17/2015 2:41:12 PM PDT by Nachum
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, a former State Department official, sidestepped questions about Hillary Clinton's exclusive use of a private email address in testimony today on Capitol Hill:
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
To every liar...squirm squirm squirm
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Jack Lew is giving Obama’s people time to find and destroy every email about Barry
Here’s the cycle. Liberals make laws (Lord do they make laws), liberals ignore the laws they made. Liberals are caught breaking the laws they made. Liberals call for new laws to be made in response of the law that they broke. The MSM nods their head in approval. Liberals say that that thing (the lawbreaking) is old news and it is time to move on. Liberals then say that everyone does it, and that it is Bush’s fault. Repeat as needed.
You left out Deny, Deny, Deny….Delay Delay Delay….. THEN its “old news, we have answered all of that a long time ago, the American people want us to move on.” then - the Media nods in approval.
"I never heard of no emails."
I cannot respond in other way but that you are right. Insert that into my ‘cycle’. I will give you a footnote.
Not telling the Whole truth is the same as lying, the Weekly Standard just told a Whopper. Jack Lew is not refusing to testify, CONGRESS IS ALLOWING HIM TO NOT TESTIFY:
Congress has ALL the power in washington, the executive and judicial branch operate according to the whims of CONGRESS!
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/
...slippery as an eel
WRONG, CONGRESS is, see #9
Congress can do all but with Bonehead blocking, nothing will happen. All Republican controlled committees are useless because they do not use the power they have. The Republicans are cowards and all they do is talk. Prove me wrong!
The Republicans are cowards “
I disagree, they are not cowards, they were not out smarted, they weren’t played either. This is the Ruling Class firmly in place of Both Parties leadership, flexing their muscle. STOP MAKING EXCUSES for these Quisling Bastards, they are just plain EVIL.
“Lew essentially claimed he couldn’t remember if he knew that Clinton’s email was private.”
Lewis learned well from his old boss.
I hate to burst your bubble, because I can’t stand these liberals, either but.....
You are incorrect.
Article [V.]
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Congress is a bunch-o-bums.
Hillary in the WH will only bring about more division and scandal. Americans have had enough of that already.
You are wrong, I am right on this, what you are talking about is the JUDICIAL Branch of Government, Standing before CONGRESS, YOU HAVE NO SUCH RIGHTS, AT ALL. Your only right is to TELL THE TRUTH! CONGRESS is Above ALL such Laws and Rights.
Try reading the cases mentioned in the links of my post.
Same jerk who squirmed during Benghazi hearings.
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