espionage?
“Quick. More mass shootings!” — Uniparty media.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.............
Only two possibilities; It's true and nothing happens, it's false.
This is going to be the destruction of the FBI.
We can only hope...
How is this not a seditious conspiracy to overthrow the government between the FBI and their accomplices?
-PJ
Evidence.
EVIDENCE.
E-V-I-D-E-N-C-E.
Do I believe this happened..no, I dont know this guy from a hole in the wall but IF its true its 100000 percent unconstitutional and totally illegal
Meadows was an original party to the Georgia case, which should now throw the entire thing into federal court to resolve these issues, if this story is true.
-PJ
Nothing surprises me any more but this is what Trump will have to deal with if he gets a second term.
Nothing surprise me anymore, entirely plausible and good chance it’s true. Our New Speaker has the tools necessary to take care of this if he has the balls to do it.
“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.
Illegality of it won’t matter. They’ll just cherry pick recordings and use it against trump in an effort to stop a “dangerous tyrant.” The Constitution is dead when no one is held to account for violating it. Just the way they want it.
Very likely false
“This is quite a claim...”
Nothing to it. The FBI did a thorough investigation and found they were squeaky clean.
Dave Daleiden in on trial for years in California for the same damn thing....Taping people without their consent.....He caught planned parenthood selling baby parts and the dems have been after him for years.......
And just who is going to destroy the FBI??
Oh!, Oh!, I know!, I know!
The SS was in on it too!
I suppose we’re waiting for the FBI to investigate themselves again. I wonder if Bill Barr knew about it. Also, Grenell and Ratcliffe were Directors of National Intelligence when Meadows was Chief of Staff.