Posted on 03/27/2015 3:52:58 PM PDT by detective
Hillary Clinton did not hand over new documents to the House panel investigating Benghazi and wiped her server clean of past emails, the committee’s chairman said in a statement Friday.
Clinton did not provide correspondence or emails to the Select Committee on Benghazi, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), said, even though the former secretary of state was under a subpoena, issued early this month, for all correspondence from Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state that focused on Libya and Benghazi.
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Mr Howdy and crew gave her long enough to destroy and rid herself of the evidence prior to issuing the order to provide.
Imagine that.
The ol reach arounds in DC will never end.
Yes.
Mosaad might help, just to poke The Emperor in the eye
How is it that we can get audio recordings from a plane that was slammed into a mountain at 450 miles per hour.
But we can’t get info via FOIA from a govt employees computer who served in the “most transparent” administration.
Benghazi ping.
Let Republicanprofessor know if you want on or off this ping list.
Don’t know I’d this particular article has been posted on FR but it needs to be kept close to other or posted if not previously
I had forgotten she got rid of documents then. If she gets rid of documents, and takes flack because she did it, that doesn't matter to her - the important fact that matters to her is, if no documents, no indictment, no conviction.
I think she has accomplished that in some way - had someone change out the hard drive so it is genuinely blank. She has money so could pay for the best person to do that and buy his/her silence about it forever.
Government officials have a whole different set of laws than the little people. It's always been that way.
On another thread you said “ALL” Republicans are just talk, talk, talk. So, I suppose you think “ALL” Republicans are “friggin” buffoons. Our true conservatives operate under the name Republican, so since there is no one worthy of your support, why are you here except to denigrate every conservative Republican in office?
“Does anybody know why the Sgt at Arms has not made a collar since the thirties?”
Normally, a Sgt at Arms is appointed to keep order in a session/meeting place. If someone becomes unruly to the point it disturbs the meeting or causes a danger to the meeting members, the Sgt at Arms removes them.
No, I am not a professional makeup artist, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night. :o)
Marcella, thanks. Thanks for shooting at the BS going on around here. It is certainly starting to smell.
I thought at first that it was colossal ignorance, and then I thought maybe just the lofo voter base, but now I think it is willful and tactical. Like Libertarian, maybe— the obnoxious style of some young bully in training.
Why? Because they refuse to become informed on facts and reality. Especially with Trey Gowdy, as if he had any power beyond subpoena. Under a corrupt Justice Department, there will be no enforcement of subpoenas against another Executive Branch department, like State. There will be no seizures of files and servers.
Congress can enforce its subpoenas and does not need the DOJ.
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/
remember, young lawyer Hillary Clinton was thrown off the Nixon investigation team because SHE was determined to be unethical. She knows all about the Nixonian issues.
Congress as a WHOLE has authorities of considerable force.
What you have here is mostly “ANALYSIS”! And, NONE of it applies to your whipping post, Trey Gowdy, as a committee chairman.
Just, STOP, with the diversions.
Blinded to the point that TREY GOWDY is but one man, chairing one committee, under the boot of Eric Holder’s corrupt JD, you make him out to be the arbiter of the WHOLE congress.
He is NOT.
Your litany of powers have nothing to do with the limitations in power of Trey Gowdy, as a chairman of one investigative committee.
Your litany is directed to powers of the Speaker.
Gowdy has already addressed your deposit! Gowdy has SAID that it was something for the WHOLE congress to take up, under the prevue of the Speaker.
My problem is succinct. You slander Gowdy and deny the facts of his limitations. You never stop slandering Gowdy.
Also, there is political timing issue that is rather relative. Hillary Clinton is running for prez. Timing the full court press to take her down is not irrelevant.
Those in charge of the timing are just not going to put your personal gratification at the top of the damn calendar.
prevue - pervue!
Analysis? Supreme Court decisions and the Congressional Record aren’t analysis. The only analysis if footnote 6, the other 5 footnotes are not.
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