Posted on 11/08/2017 12:00:38 PM PST by detective
As of November 7, there has been no report that the FBI has delivered documents sought by the House Intelligence Committee since last May – and, by subpoenas, since at least August 24. 2017.
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This is just like the investigation of the IRS.
People responsible at the FBI need to arrested and locked up until they comply and start obeying the law.
Where are the documents? Where is Jeff Sessions?!
Trump should order the AG and FBI director in writing and publicly to turn them over immediately. If they fail to do so and he doesn’t discipline them, the problem is Trump.
Where is Jeff Sessions?
Shredder? Ashes in a furnace? Bottom of the ocean? In Iran? George Soros office?
Shhhhh! Not so loud! It’s a sting operation, dontchaknow? Trump, Mueller and Sessions are laying low. Gonna let the Democrats hang themselves! Gonna be great, just wait and see....
When the FBI, or any Government agency, can ignore Congress, our Government is broken.
“Devin Nunes wrote to Attorney General Jeff Sessions September 1, 2017, reminding him of the subpoenas“.
Why does Nunes have to remind him? Sessions should have a subpoena spreadsheet projected on a screen reviewed daily with his staff. WTF?
Seriously! WTF is going on with this guy? Trump needs to fire him and get someone on recess appt. someone with balls who gets results and quickly. CLinton, Podesta, Abedin, Clinton, Wasserman-Shlitz, hell the whole Dem apparatus.
FBI to the House Intelligence Committee. “FU! The FBI *is* the law.”
Agreed......but our “law and order” president appointed a worthless POS to be Attorney General.
Please don’t expect any justice to occur during this administration. It won’t. Our government is too corrupt.
oh...ohhhh k,..... i’ll just keep real quiet and hide in the bushes over here and wait till they pounce on ‘em dastardly Democrats.
One explanation is that a lot of people are about to be arrested
The other explanation is that lots of people need to be arrested
I hope that's sarcasm, because if that was the plan they would be hanging already.
Benedict Arnold Sessions is probably burning them.
All of this is nothing more than an elaborate Dog and Pony Show. Congress has an Unbelievable amount of Power to compel Witnesses to testify and Evidence to be produced
Paul Ryan or Mitch McConnell could each Sign a WARRANT and have the FBI Director brought Before them and Put in JAIL if he does not have the Documents, and keep going right down the line til they are all in Prison or they cough up the documents.
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.
> House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes wrote to Attorney General Jeff Sessions September 1, 2017, reminding him of the subpoenas
Jeff Sessions is no longer asleep. He’s actively obstructing.
It normally takes a lot for me to take the side of anyone in Congress, but Nunes and Grassley appear to have 10 times the integrity of every publicly known current or former FBI employee combined. Their reputation is basically irreparable at this point, and they know it, is probably why they’re hunkered down.
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