[KayEyeDoubleDee]

Nothing in section 953 [Logan Act], however, would appear to restrict members of the Congress from engaging in discussions with foreign officials in pursuance of their legislative duties under the Constitution.

He wasn't on a Congressional fact-finding mission: He was arguing on behalf of the new Administration which will be sworn in come January.

[savedbygrace]

You might know that. I might know that. Tens of thousands of FReepers might know that.

But if you look at the available evidence that can be proven, you find that there isn’t enough to prosecute. There would have to be a smoking gun tape of the conversation before the Bush administration would consider stirring up that hornet’s nest. Can you imagine what would happen if a sitting Republican president ordered a Dimocrat presidential nominee to be prosecuted for a conversation he had with officials of Iraq while on a Congressional overseas trip?

Doesn’t matter if YOU would call it a fact finding trip or not. That’s what MoC on both sides will say it is, and that’s what these things will always be. And that’s why I say that the Logan Act excludes MoC. There’s a hole in the Act big enough to drive Jerold Nadler through.

Try to separate your wants from political reality.