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Grassley’s a bulldog.
He bites down and won’t let go...
Grassley is on the case... that means in 3 years he will make a scornful remark about the FBI that will reallllly sting them!
Hey Senator Grassley, can we also find out what FBI official Aaron Rouse’s role was in whitewashing the Clinton matter?
Until the end of July 2016, Aaron Rouse was a section chief in the FBI Counterintelligence division in DC together with Peter Strzok, where the Clinton email matter was handled.
And what is Aaron Rouse doing now? He is in charge of the Las Vegas shooting investigation, apparently making sure the public learns as little as possible about what happened in Vegas.
The FBI has been thumbing their noses at Congress whenever they’re asked for documents relating to the Mueller witch hunt. How do they get away with it?
A few days ago, House Intelligence committee Chairman Nunez threatend to issue a subpoena. Enough with the threats. Just do it.
And don’t let the CORRUPT FBI decide which emails are relevant and/or to black out the portions of emails they do not want to be seen by Congress. The FBI has long since lost the right for Americans to have ANY confidence in their honesty.
The FBI should be regarded as HOSTILE witnesses are regarded.
Not to impugn Mr. Grassley’s effort, but it’s unfortunate that the these type of demands only serve to highlight what evidence must be destroyed and how much time there is to do it.
my money is on Strzok being on the payroll of the Clinton foundation in some fashion.
Sounds more like the same old Dog and Pony show to me, otherwise All of these “witnesses” would be Rotting in the Congressional Jail!!
The refusal to answer pertinent questions in a matter of inquiry within the jurisdiction of the
Senate, of course, constitutes a contempt of that body, and by the statute this is also made an offense
against the United States.
The history of Congressional investigations demonstrates the difficulties under which the two
Houses have labored, respectively, in compelling unwilling witnesses to disclose acts deemed essential
to taking definitive action, and we quite agree with Chief Justice Alvey, delivering the opinion of the
court of appeals, “that Congress possessed the constitutional power to enact a statute to enforce the
attendance of witnesses and to compel them to make disclosure of evidence to enable the respective
bodies to discharge their legitimate functions;” and that it was to affect this that the act of 1857 was
passed. It was an act necessary and proper for carrying into execution the powers vested in Congress
and in each House thereof. We grant that Congress could not divest itself, or either of its Houses, of
the essential and inherent power to punish for contempt in cases to which the power of either House
properly extended; but because Congress, by the act of 1857, sought to aid each of the Houses in the
discharge of its constitutional functions, it does not follow that any delegation of the power in each to
punish for contempt was involved; and the statute is not open to objection on that account.
Nevertheless, although the power to punish for contempt still remains in each House, we must
decline to decide that this law is invalid because it provides that contumacy in a witness called to testify
in a matter properly under consideration by either House and deliberately refusing to answer questions
pertinent thereto, shall be a misdemeanor against the United States, who are interested that the authority
of neither of their departments, nor of any branch thereof, shall be defied and set at naught. It is
improbable that in any case cumulative penalties would be imposed, whether by way of punishment
merely or of eliciting the answers desired, but it is quite clear that the contumacious witness is not
subjected to jeopardy twice for the same offense, since the same act may be an offense against one
jurisdiction and also an offense against another; and indictable statutory offenses may be punished
as such, while the offenders may likewise be subjected to punishment for the same acts as contempts,
the two being diverse intuitu and capable of standing together.