FBI fails to comply with subpoena deadline on Biden-related docs
Posted on 05/19/2023 12:11:30 PM PDT by Red Badger
The FBI has failed to comply with a Congressional subpoena seeking an FBI-generated "FD 1023 form" that allegedly details a bribery scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden and a foreign national.
Based on whistleblower disclosures, House Oversight Republicans say the Department of Justice and the FBI possess an unclassified FD-1023 form that describes an alleged criminal scheme relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions.
The whistleblower disclosures further state that the document includes a precise description of how the alleged criminal scheme was employed as well as its purpose.
The House Oversight Committee is investigating what many see as the Biden family’s suspicious business schemes involving foreign adversaries to determine if President Biden is compromised, and if there is a national security threat.
The Oversight Committee says it has obtained thousands of pages of financial records related to the Biden family and its associates’ business transactions.
Recently, the Committee revealed one deal that resulted in several members of the Biden family and their companies receiving over $1 million in more than 15 incremental payments from a Chinese company through a third party.
The Congressional subpoena requires the FBI to produce, in unredacted form, all FD-1023s that contain the word “Biden,” and all accompanying attachments and documents.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Rep. James Comer (R-Kentucky) recently issued statements regarding the FBI's non-compliance.
While the FBI has failed to produce the specific document by the subpoena deadline, their offer to provide an accommodation process in response to our legitimate request indicates the document is real. So the question remains, what did the FBI do to investigate very serious allegations from an apparent trusted FBI source implicating then-Vice President Biden? Today’s letter from the FBI raises additional questions, including whether the FBI has an open investigation based on these allegations. The American people pay the FBI’s salaries, and they’re entitled to a fulsome response.”
It’s clear from the FBI’s response that the unclassified record the Oversight Committee subpoenaed exists, but they are refusing to provide it to the Committee. We’ve asked the FBI to not only provide this record, but to also inform us what it did to investigate these allegations.
The FBI has failed to do both. The FBI’s position is ‘trust, but you aren’t allowed to verify.’ That is unacceptable. We plan to follow up with the FBI and expect compliance with the subpoena.”
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They’re going to Indict Trump.
Jack Smith Indicts Trump - Open Secret
Evidently, Jack Smith was hired to get Trump.
Durham was told to figure things out and do a Report.
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I am shocked I say.
They have a department just for Coverup
WTH is an "accommodation process"? Sounds like a big FU in so few words.
Who prosecutes the DOJ and FBI? No one, they are too powerful, therefore they must be dismantled.
Why doesn’t congress dust out their jail and put Garland in it. Yet they are not even making threats. They will do nothing. The fact that the DOJ gets to decide what happens to the DOJ when they commit criminal acts is just preposterous. And what about the USSC ?
If Speaker McCarthy would man up and grow some balls, he could use the JAIL CONGRESS HAS!!!
“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.
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.
They may mean that they will show the docs to certain members of the committee but only at FIB HQ................
I said so in a previous post this very morning...............
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Comer is waiting for McCarthy to do something
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I personally would also like to see a bill introduced in the House to change the headquarters location of the FBI from the WA DC area to say Fairbanks, Alaska. That will get the political insiders attention.
-PJ
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That is what they got.
And the Republicans just shrug and say...
“Well, I guess that’s it” “Where’s dinner & drinks tonite fellas?”
In these lawless times a subpoena has about as much clout as a ‘strongly worded letter’.
The receiver drops the paper into a shredder and yells “Make me!”.
Congress should suspend all funding to the DOJ!
What have you got against Fairbanks? Besides making that their duty location will require them to fly every time they come to DC to explain themselves.
I think it would be a better idea to put FBI head quarters in walking distance from Penn Station -Baltimore-, and forbid them any travel reimbursement for anything but coach on MARC. Basically if they want anything more than walking from their office take the cheap seat on the commuter train, then walk from Union Station to the hearing, they must pay for it themselves.
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