Posted on 04/19/2016 2:55:22 PM PDT by Nachum
During a hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Tuesday, Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R., Utah) said that he believed that Jonathan E. Meyer, the deputy general counsel for the Department of Homeland Security, had overseen the intimidation of a witness who had talked to the committee.
“When the committee attorneys asked the witness whether they had been discouraged from speaking with the committee, both the agency and the department attorney repeatedly refused to allow the witness to answer the question, even going so far as to interrupt when the witness appeared willing to answer. How does the department justify this?”
“As I told Mr. Mica, the questions were requesting him to discuss what attorneys advised him. That’s subject to the attorney-client privilege, so our attorneys asked him not to respond and suggested that we discuss it in a different setting and try to get the Committee the information they want,” Meyer said.
This did not satisfy Chaffetz.
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Being from Utah and living here now, I can say I trust Chaffets over Hatch, Lee or Love any day of the week...
Mike Lee and Harry Reid are being tied into a trial here in Utah..
We’ll have to see how that works out, this Shallow guy has already been found guilty, but he wants another trial because he ‘found out more stuff’ probably getting heat because people found out about the connection of Mike and Harry...
Only in Utah...
Just another DOG AND PONY SHOW!
If He or They were SERIOUS, an Immediate Vote for CONTEMPT of CONGRESS would be Taken, and then the Attorney should have been LOCKED UP FOR CONTEMPT. 6 Months ought to do the trick.
QUIT LYING, You Have ALL the Necessary Tools and Authority to get to the Bottom of ANYTHING you so Desire.
These SENATORS and CONGRESSMEN have the ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY to get All the Answers they wish and they can act on those answers as they wish. Instead they JUST WHINE AND BITCH, while DOING NOTHING!:
Congress has ALL the power in washington, the executive and judicial branch operate according to the whims of CONGRESS!
Congress can Remove the President
Congress can remove the head of every executive agency Congress can remove ALL of their employees
Congress can Abolish every agency they so choose
Congress can remove EVERY JUDGE IN AMERICA, including every supreme court justice.
Congress can abolish every federal court except the supreme Court
Congress can decide which cases the Judicial Branch can hear and decide
CONGRESS can Imprison ANYONE they want for any reason they so desire for as long as they wish.
Congress can declare WAR
No other governing body has even 10% of the power CONGRESS has!!
CONGRESS IS ALLOWING ALL OF IT!!!
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/
Forgot the links:
Excellent post. We just have oligarchy. We have lost out vote. Its all rigged.
Work for Trump your Blackballed
In other news, the Chihuahua jumped through a flaming hoop.
This is actually very useful. Harry Reid is about to come up under similar charges of whistleblower intimidation. Nice to know Chafetz is clean. Mike Lee and Orin Hatch are not.
I would say that they did, but again, I am just one of Obama’s Bitter Clinger.
What do you have against Mike Lee? He seems like one of the good guys.
There are two major bribe investigations in Utah against Harry Reid. They were held up by Mike Lee and Orin Hatch. There’s a lot more that I can’t say.
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