Posted on 04/16/2015 9:42:45 AM PDT by eyeamok
Trey Gowdy (R-SC), chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, said his committee lacks the authority to subpoena former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s server
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Where is Congress in this investigation? Darrell Issaa? “”
Doing every thing humanly possible to COVER IT ALL UP, ISSA AND GOWDY ARE COMPLICIT in all of this, as is The entire leadership of BOTH Parties, including Juan McCain.
Appearing before CONGRESS you have NO RIGHTS, You have the right to answer truthfully, that is all, you HAVE NO RIGHT against Self Incrimination, You Have NO RIGHT to say no, YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS AT ALL BEFORE CONGRESS, those are for the Judicial Branch of Government.
They dont have to, CONGRESS can do it on their Own!!
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/
Kabuki, ad nauseum, ad infinitum......
LYING POS
That’s all the little jerk is.
Man, he’s something else. Always hot and bothered, jumping up and down and then....nothing.
A complete Southern Fried Fraud.
Neutered! Go home, Gowdy. You’re drunk.
Unfortunately, you are most likely correct on all fronts. (His hands are tied - my foot.)
The real Question is what are “We the People” going to do about it.
The governing body with even more authority than Congress - We the People!
I don’t imagine South Carolinians will take this lying down. I respectfully suggest the good Chairman reconsider.
Well thank goodness he can still write letters when he gets really, really mad.
Why doesn’t congress go the **** home. Useless group of people. Just useless.
What were you doing for all those years
Useless and expensive.
Issa trained him well.
And people wonder why I will never believe or trust anything a Government Lawyer/ Prosecutor says!
The fix is and was before it started.
Well this just opened the door for every politician, state department official, etc... to have their own private email servers, to conduct Official Business, to conceal and obfuscate.
Let’s stipulate that, right or wrong, Gowdy thinks he cannot subpoena the server. So, my question is, “what are you going to do about it?” Throw up your hands and let it go at that? Or, are you going to deliver the speech of a lifetime attacking Hillsry Clinton as totally I fit for ANY office because she holds the law and the people’s representatives, and therefore the people, in utter contempt? Will you not hold daily press conferences attacking her and go on every radio and TV show attacking her?”
If he believes he doesn’t have subpoena power, anything less than what I outlined would eliminate all doubt that he is bought and paid for.
Oops. totally unfit.
5.56mm
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