I haven't seen even a single match head of this inferno. Stop promising - hold the head of the FBI for contempt of Congress.
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And so on.
How many deadlines has Nunes given to the DOJ?? Yet DOJ has continued to disregard and go along their merry old way of obstruction.
It should be 9am Monday morning. The DOJ has had enough time to have those documents ready, why give them anymore time?
MORE Kabuki!
Sheesh! It’s well past time for the Congress to reassert its oversight rights and get this crap out in the open.
Sessions could help, but he’s still pondering his navel somewhere.
Three ‘deadlines’ and still the DOJ is thumbing its nose at the Congress critters.
We have NO reason to believe this new deadline is anything but another mile-marker on the slide toward oblivion.
It wasn’t “spying.” LOL They’ve already said repeatedly they were not SPYING. They were just protecting candidate Trump.
“Your crossed my red line so,” (draws another red line), “I double dog dare you to cross THIS one.”
IMHO, the Gateway Pundit ‘article’ is next to worthless.
Yawn. I’m convinced nothing significant will happen until somebody’s in jail. Words against the RATS are useless.
Or else what?
“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.
First it was Wednesday. Then it was Friday.
Of course all the months that has gone by.
I don’t blame Nunes.
He has been a strong fighter.
What more can he do if the RINO Ryan does not have his back.
Get rid of Ryan.
Correct my history if necessary.
Stalin, “How many divisions does the Pope have?”
Andrew Jackson, “The Court has made it’s decision, now let them enforce it.”
In the ‘honest’ America of one hundred, or even fifty years ago, there is no doubt that the righteous wrath of the American people would have severely punished ALL the Deep State violators and subversion, of their oath to the Constitution.
They are almost too many to mention.
Nunes almost certainly has the information that he seeks - at this point he’s just figuring out who’s going to get jailed.
OK ... 5 p.m. tomorrow (I presume that’s EDT), Mr. Nunes has one final opportunity to protect and defend the Constitution (i.e., the rule of law). That’s it, then!
About time have ax will use.
Sigh. “OR WHAT?”
I’ve shown over and over Congress has NO authority to do anything to DOJ. Impeachment is a long process with seven distinct stages, requiring FULL Senate cooperation. Does anyone see that happening?
Defunding is fine, but can’t be done til next budget cycle.
Either way, DOJ is safe from anything Congress can do for nearly a year.
...Or what, another tersely worded letter threatening another letter?
Or else what? Send the House Sergeant at Arms over to arrest them?
Or what, another deadline threat? Ooooooo, now that’s scary!
I haven't seen even a single match head of this inferno. Stop promising - hold the head of the FBI for contempt of Congress.
just pull the trigger on hell to pay