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Illegal Diplomacy - Did Nancy Pelosi Violate the Logan Act?
Opinion Journal ^ | Monday, April 2, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT | ROBERT F. TURNER

Posted on 04/06/2007 3:19:45 PM PDT by Uncle Peter

Illegal Diplomacy?

Did Nancy Pelosi commit a felony when she went to Syria?

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may well have committed a felony in traveling to Damascus this week, against the wishes of the president, to communicate on foreign-policy issues with Syrian President Bashar Assad.

The Logan Act makes it a felony and provides for a prison sentence of up to three years for any American, "without authority of the United States," to communicate with a foreign government in an effort to influence that government's behavior on any "disputes or controversies with the United States." Some background on this statute helps to understand why Ms. Pelosi may be in serious trouble.


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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: burqagirl; democrats; dhimmicrats; islamophiles; islamophilia; loganact; muhammadsminions; nancypelosi; pelosi; prosecutepelosi; sedition; syria; treason; wot
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1 posted on 04/06/2007 3:19:46 PM PDT by Uncle Peter
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To: Uncle Peter

Yes!


2 posted on 04/06/2007 3:20:44 PM PDT by RacerX1128
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To: Uncle Peter

She should be arrested. Talk about “culture of corruption”!!


3 posted on 04/06/2007 3:23:10 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Sanjaya 2008. He couldn't be worse than those really running.)
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4 posted on 04/06/2007 3:23:38 PM PDT by Wolverine (A Concerned Citizen)
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To: Uncle Peter

Special Prosecutor Ann Coulter


5 posted on 04/06/2007 3:23:52 PM PDT by CIDKauf (No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.)
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To: Uncle Peter
Obviously.

Will anyone do anything about it?

Obviously not.

6 posted on 04/06/2007 3:25:28 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: Uncle Peter

What difference does it make? George Bush is the president he will never allow the Justice Department go after a fellow politician.


7 posted on 04/06/2007 3:25:42 PM PDT by thiscouldbemoreconfusing
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To: Uncle Peter

Yes. I request an Independent Special Prosecutor look into this and the series of events prior to Nancy’s trip.


8 posted on 04/06/2007 3:25:53 PM PDT by petitfour
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To: Uncle Peter

Probably, but apparently law doesn’t mean much anymore.


9 posted on 04/06/2007 3:26:30 PM PDT by RightWhale (3 May '07 3:14 PM)
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To: Uncle Peter

I just voted yes in the poll. So far its 96% to 4% in our favor.

We need to do everything possible to ensure that Pelosi is charged with a felony.

Write to your representative
http://www.house.gov/writerep/

Also write letters to the editor if you can, it’ll help sway public opinion against Pelosi.


10 posted on 04/06/2007 3:26:53 PM PDT by rob21 (Duncan Hunter 2008)
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To: Uncle Peter

As a member of Congress I believe she is protected by congressional immunity as long as there is no hint of personal financial profit from her wrongdoing.


11 posted on 04/06/2007 3:27:04 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: Uncle Peter

Works for me!


12 posted on 04/06/2007 3:28:16 PM PDT by Renkluaf
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To: Uncle Peter

Very interesting. I would like to hear from a Freeper lawyer give his/her opinion how Nancy could be exempt from the Logan Act. Im sure there is some loophole or angle that would exclude her from prosecution. I mean c’mon! This would just be too good to be true.


13 posted on 04/06/2007 3:29:27 PM PDT by DogBarkTree (The United States failure to act against Iran will be seen as weakness throughout the Muslim world.)
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To: Uncle Peter

Our immigration laws don’t seem to mean anything anymore, so why should something like the Logan Act be any different?

Every single one of our “leaders” is either directly or indirectly systematically destroying this country. And yes, it goes right on up to the President.


14 posted on 04/06/2007 3:31:46 PM PDT by frankiep (Beer - the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems)
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To: Uncle Peter

Yes, she did. However, the Logan Act has never been enforced, and I doubt it will be in this case. Plenty of state governors, members of Congress, and even one ex-President (Carter) have violated the act through the years since it’s been on the books. I think Carter and Pelosi’s violations are the most egregious, but Clinton did nothing about Carter’s meeddling in North Korea, and nothing will be done to Pelosi now. BTW, Jesse Jackson may have violated the Act several times when he negotiated with foreign governments for prisoner releases. In his case, it’s not clear if he had presidential OK’s.


15 posted on 04/06/2007 3:32:02 PM PDT by Wolfstar (When you whip the good guys into rage at the wrong enemy, don't be surprised when the bad guys win.)
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To: thiscouldbemoreconfusing

He would not have a congress left if he used this law. The whole slew of them went over there the last couple years. Just days ago three Republican traitors went over and did the same thing. They all should be in jail. It kills me that the Republicans went....turds!!!!!!!!!!


16 posted on 04/06/2007 3:32:04 PM PDT by napscoordinator (.)
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To: xkaydet65

I believe that as a Democrat member of Congress, she is protected even if there were personal financial profits. In support, I cite the case of Rep. “Cold Cash” Jefferson, D-La. Cold Cash was caught with $90,000 of currency in his freezer. The guy who gave him the frozen dough was convicted of bribery. Cold Cash is free as a bird.


17 posted on 04/06/2007 3:33:20 PM PDT by csn vinnie
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To: newzjunkey
There is no-bod-ee with big enough balls in DOD that will even "look into" the trip, let alone file charges. If they will not do anything about Sandy Burgler, William Jefferson, Chuckie Shumer, et al.......what makes people think that they will even consider, maybe, perhaps looking into violations of the Logan act.

Forget it folks, Sanfran Nan is home free.

18 posted on 04/06/2007 3:33:37 PM PDT by B.O. Plenty (Give war a chance...)
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To: DogBarkTree
I believe this is all a lot of silly talk. She's flying a U.S. military jet whose flights -- especially the international ones -- require numerous approvals from up and down a chain of command in the executive branch of government, which tells me that this trip must have been done with the tacit approval of the White House.
19 posted on 04/06/2007 3:34:50 PM PDT by Alberta's Child (Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
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To: RightWhale

20 posted on 04/06/2007 3:35:11 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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