Posted on 02/17/2020 10:14:44 AM PST by USA Conservative
Democrats only do two things. They harm political opposition at any cost to the citizens, and they advance the Democratic Party at any cost to the citizens. The Democratic Party serves the elite of western civilization, not the citizens of the USA.
John Kerry was the last in the line of Democrats that was accused of violating the Logan Act but he didn’t face any criminal investigation.
The Dems argued that there wasn’t enough evidence.
But now another case surface where we can see a clear example of violating the Logan Act.
Chris Murphy and other Democratic Senators held a secret meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif last week, a high-level source reports.
Via The Federalist: Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut and other Democratic senators had a secret meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Jahad Zarif during the Munich Security Conference last week, according to a source briefed by the French delegation to the conference. Murphy’s office did not respond to repeated requests for comment by press time.
Such a meeting would mean Murphy had done the type of secret coordination with foreign leaders to potentially undermine the U.S. government that he accused Trump officials of doing as they prepared for Trump’s administration. In February 2017, Murphy demanded investigations of National Security Advisor Mike Flynn because he had a phone call with his counterpart-to-be in Russia.
“Any effort to undermine our nation’s foreign policy – even during a transition period – may be illegal and must be taken seriously,” Murphy said in 2017 after anonymous leaks of Flynn’s phone call with Russian ambassador Sergey Kisylak were published. He also strongly criticized the open letter some Republican senators sent Iranian leaders during the Obama administration’s campaign for a nuclear agreement.
A State Department official who spoke on background said that the State Department was not aware of any side meetings with Iranian officials that Murphy was engaged in.
According to a press release from Republican Lindsey Graham, other Democrats at the meeting included Sens. Robert Menendez of New Jersey, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Chris Coons of Delaware.
Former Secretary Of State John Kerry was also at the meeting.
When it comes to Kerry this is nothing new but this time he might answer for his crimes against the government.
This seems the be a clear violation of the Logan Act.
The Logan Act (1 Stat. 613, 18 U.S.C. § 953, enacted January 30, 1799) is a United States federal law that criminalizes negotiation by unauthorized American citizens with foreign governments having a dispute with the United States.
The intent behind the Act is to prevent unauthorized negotiations from undermining the government’s position.
The Act was passed following George Logan’s unauthorized negotiations with France in 1798, and was signed into law by President John Adams on January 30, 1799. The Act was amended in 1994, changing the penalty for violation from “fined $5,000” to “fined under this title”; this appears to be the only amendment to the Act. Violation of the Logan Act is a felony.
Only two people have ever been indicted on charges of violating the Act, one in 1802 and the other in 1852.
These Democrats might be next in line. DOJ please react.
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Who AGREES?
I agree but nothing will ever happen
Dem Senators Held SECRET MEETING With Iranian Leaders – Is This A Violation Of The Logan Act?
No, it’s treason.
Logan act: most violated law for which none have ever been charged.
Can’t we skip the investigation and just take them right to the gallows?
Of course its a no no but come on, we all know NOTHING will happen..they are Dems..so they are immune to pretty much anything..now if Trump had done this to Obama there would be calls for his head on a stick
if you read the fine print in the law, you will understand that it can only be applied against Republicans.
so does hillary et al these dems can get in line - besides no one charges dems with criminal statutes
it’s only a violation If republicans were to do it- that’s the ‘New Law’ according to the left
The Department of Just-Us seems to agree.
how much cash did they promise them?
Because of it’s long and silly history, the Logan Act is not worth talking about.
But, yes, what we have right here surely must be Treason or Sedition. Which is a step up from the Logan Act.
Starts at the 7am hour (2:07:00 mark)
If we don’t know by now that Democrats...ALL Democrats...are domestic enemies who want all real Americans dead or enslaved, then shame on us.
We won’t take care of this through the legal system. Most lawyers, prosecutors and trial judges are Leftists and/or public employees. This will require a different solution.
Absolutely not. The Logan Act is never enforced. If a law is on the books, but is never enforced, then it's not a law and can't be broken. It may as well be repealed.
I'm pretty much at a pissed off level most all the time about our Gobment...and it's swamp dwellers..
The donkeys and the elephants duck and dodge..and want their gravy train circuses..to go on.
Some want our nation to implode...
Nothing IMMEDIATE is going to happen....
FWIW-
No worry Sen Murphy, W Barr’s got yo six -
I agree but nothing will ever happen
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Cause Republiturds are the STUPID PARTY-
-afraid of their own shadows!!! PUSSIES!
“I agree but nothing will ever happen”
At this point it can’t. Within the law, it states:
“...with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States,...”
Being able to establish intent to do these things is not provable until some type of action taken after the fact surfaces. If those senators step to the microphone anywhere and tries to create bills or by subversion try to change the actions of the president, even in the public domain, they are not within the scope of the law. So if they do anything other than a fact finding mission, it violates the law.
They can talk to them all they want. It must, however, be done correctly and with no action, at the time or follow on, detrimental to the US, any way.
rwood
They are democrats, so it is never a violation of the law.
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