Posted on 03/23/2017 11:03:37 AM PDT by WENDLE
I just heard with my own ears from the former head of the House Intelligence committee, Peter Hoekstra, on the Rush Limbaugh show guest hosted by Mark Steyn, that the illegal raw wiretap transcripts on the Trump Transition were sent by the intelligence community directly to the OBAMA WHITE HOUSE!! This is far bigger than Watergate.
This Weiner laptop again? I want to see the evidence. I’m tired of these tantalizing rumors from “informed sources”.
And Comey is still digging his own grave.
I got the impression ir is shown on the transmittal cover letter. There is NO DOUBT that these illegal transcripts with unmasked US citizens ( A FELONY) wetre gonig to the obvama White house. !!
Don't kid yourself. Never gonna happen.
It doesn't matter if Obama recorded himself demanding the wiretaps in person (which he never did, I'm certain). Wouldn't matter. They'd claim he was taken out of context, that it doesn't matter, that a wiretap isn't a wiretap, on and on.
Those who like Obama will not be swayed, ever.
Those who like Trump will know the truth.
Tahiti is part of French Polynesia. French Polynesia is a semi-autonomous territory of France with its own assembly, president, budget and laws. France’s influence is limited to subsidies, education and security.
EXTRADITION TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND FRANCE
The President of the United States of America and the President of the French Republic,
Recalling the Extradition Treaty and accompanying Protocol between the United States of America and the Repub-lic of France signed at Paris January 6, 1909 and the Supplementary Convention signed at Paris February 12, 1970 with Exchanges of Letters of June 2 and 11, 1970;
Noting that these treaties continue in force between the Government of the United States of America and the Gov-ernment of the French Republic until entry into force of this Treaty; and
Desiring to provide for more effective cooperation between the two States in the suppression of crime and to facili-tate relations between the two States in the area of extradition by concluding a treaty for the extradition of offenders;
Have decided to conclude a new extradition treaty and have appointed as their plenipotentiaries for this purpose:
The President of the United States of America:
The Honorable, Janet Reno, Attorney General of the United States of America;
The President of the French Republic:
The [*17] Honorable, Jacques Toubon, Minister of Justice;
Who, having communicated to each other their respective full powers, which were found in good and due form, have agreed as follows:
Article 1
Obligation to Extradite
The Contracting States agree to extradite to each other, pursuant to the provisions of this Treaty, persons whom the competent authorities in the Requesting State have charged with or found guilty of an extraditable offense.
Article 2
Extraditable Offenses
1. Acts shall be extraditable if they are punished under the laws in both States by deprivation of liberty for a maxi-mum of at least one year or by a more severe penalty. If extradition is requested for purposes of enforcing a judgment, the time remaining to be served must be at least six months.
2. An offense shall also be an extraditable offense if it consists of an attempt or a conspiracy to commit, or partici-pation in the commission of, an offense described in paragraph 1.
3. For the purposes of this Article, an offense shall be an extraditable offense:
(a) whether or not the laws in the Contracting States place the offense within the same category of of-fenses or describe the offense by the same terminology; or
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(b) whether or not the offense is one for which United States federal law requires proof or an element of proof, such as passage from one state to another, the use of the mails, wire, and other facilities of inter-state or foreign commerce, or the effects upon such commerce, since such an element is required for the sole purpose of establishing the jurisdiction of United States federal courts.
4. Extradition shall be granted for an extraditable offense committed outside the territory of the Requesting State, when the laws of the Requested State authorize the prosecution or provide for the punishment of that offense in similar circumstances.
5. If the extradition request concerns distinct acts, each punishable under the laws of the two States by the depriva-tion of liberty, and if some of the acts do not fulfill the conditions set forth in Paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article, the Requested State shall nonetheless grant extradition based upon such acts.
6. In matters concerning tax, customs duty, and foreign exchange offenses, extradition shall be granted pursuant to the terms set forth in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article.
Article 3
Nationality
1. There is no obligation upon the Requested [*19] State to grant the extradition of a person who is a national of the Requested State, but the executive authority of the United States shall have the power to surrender a national of the United States if, in its discretion, it deems it proper to do so. The nationality of the person sought shall be the nationality of that person at the time the offense was committed.
2. If extradition is refused solely on the basis of the nationality of the person sought, the Requested State shall, at the request of the Requesting State, submit the case to its authorities for prosecution.
Article 4
Political Offenses
1. Extradition shall not be granted by France when the offense for which extradition is requested is considered by France as a political offense or as an offense connected with a political offense or as an offense inspired by political motives. Extradition shall not be granted by the United States when the offense for which extradition is requested is considered by the United States to be a political offense.
2. For the purposes of this Treaty, and in accordance with paragraph 1 of this Article, the following offenses shall not be considered to be political offenses:
(a) a murder or [*20] a willful crime against the person of a Head of State of one of the Contracting States, or a member of his or her family, or any attempt or conspiracy to commit, or participation in, any of the foregoing offenses;
(b) an offense for which both Contracting States are obliged pursuant to a multilateral agreement to ex-tradite the requested person or to submit the case to the competent authorities for decision as to prosecu-tion;
(c) a serious offense involving an attack against the life, physical integrity or liberty of internationally protected persons, including diplomatic agents;
(d) an offense involving kidnapping, the taking of a hostage or any other form of unlawful detention;
(e) an offense involving the use of a bomb, grenade, rocket, automatic firearm or letter or parcel bomb if this use endangers persons; or
(f) an attempt or conspiracy to commit, or participation in, any of the offenses listed in paragraphs 2(b), 2(c), 2(d) or 2(e) of this Article.
3. The Requested State may deny extradition of persons who committed any of the offenses mentioned in para-graphs 2(b), 2(c), 2(d), 2(e), and 2(f) of this Article pursuant to the provisions of paragraph 1 of this Article. [*21]
In evaluating the character of the offense, the Requested State shall take into consideration the particularly serious nature of the offense, including:
(a) that it created a collective danger to the life, physical integrity or liberty of persons;
(b) that it affected persons foreign to the motives behind it; or
(c) that cruel or treacherous means have been used in the commission of the offense.
4. Extradition shall not be granted if the executive authority in the case of the United States or the competent au-thorities in the case of France have substantial grounds for believing that the request was for the purpose of prosecuting or punishing a person on account of that person’s race, religion, nationality or political opinions.
Article 5
Military Offenses
Extradition shall not be granted if the offense in respect of which it is requested is exclusively a military offense.
Article 6
Humanitarian Considerations
This Treaty does not prevent the executive authority in the case of the United States or the competent authorities in the case of France from denying extradition when surrender of the person might entail exceptionally serious conse-quences related to age or health.
Article [*22] 7
Capital Punishment
1. When the offense for which extradition is sought is punishable by death under the laws in the Requesting State and is not punishable by death under the laws in the Requested State, the Requested State may refuse extradition unless the Requesting State provides the assurance that the death penalty will not be imposed or, if imposed, will not be carried out.
2. In instances in which a Requesting State provides the assurance in accordance with this Article, the death penal-ty, if imposed by the courts of the Requesting State, shall not be carried out.
Article 8
Prior Prosecution
1. Extradition shall not be granted when the person sought has been finally convicted or acquitted in the Requested State for the offense for which extradition is requested.
2. Extradition shall not be refused on the grounds that the authorities in the Requested State have decided not to prosecute the person sought for the acts for which extradition is requested, or to discontinue any criminal proceedings which have been instituted against the person sought for those acts.
Article 9
Lapse of Time
1. Extradition shall be denied if prosecution of the offense or execution of the penalty has [*23] been barred by lapse of time under the laws of the Requested State.
2. Acts in the Requesting State that would interrupt or suspend the prescriptive period are to be taken into account by the Requested State to the extent possible under its laws.
Article 10
Extradition Procedures and Required Documents.
1. All requests for extradition shall be submitted through the diplomatic channel.
2. All requests shall be supported by:
(a) documents, statements, or other types of information which state the nationality, probable location, and also describe the identity of the person sought in order to establish that the person is the subject of the prosecution or conviction;
(b) information describing the facts of the offense and the procedural history of the case;
(c) the text of the provisions describing the offense for which extradition is requested; and
(d) the text of the law prescribing the punishment for the offense.
3. A request for extradition of a person who is sought for prosecution shall also be supported by:
(a) in the case of a request submitted by the United States, a duly authenticated copy of the warrant or order of arrest and the charging document; or
(b) in [*24] the case of a request submitted by France, an original or a duly authenticated copy of the warrant or order of arrest and such information as would justify the committal for trial of the person if the offense had been committed in the United States.
4. A request for extradition relating to a person who has been found guilty or convicted of the offense for which ex-tradition is sought shall also be supported by:
(a) in the case of a request by the United States, if the person has been convicted, the original or a duly authenticated copy of the final judgment of conviction, or, if the person has been found guilty but has not yet been sentenced, a statement by a judicial authority that the person has been found guilty, and a duly authenticated copy of the warrant of arrest;
(b) in the case of a request by France, the original or a duly authenticated copy of the final judgment of conviction;
(c) in all cases where a sentence has been imposed, a statement of the remainder of the sentence to be served; and
(d) in the case of a person who has been found guilty in absentia, the documents required by paragraph 3.
Article 11
Admissibility of Documents
The documents which accompany [*25] an extradition request shall be received and admitted as evidence in extra-dition proceedings if:
(a) in the case of a request from the United States, they are transmitted through the diplomatic channel;
(b) in the case of a request from France, they are certified by the principal diplomatic or principal consu-lar officer of the United States resident in France, as provided by the extradition laws of the United States, or they are certified or authenticated in any other manner accepted by the laws of the United States.
Article 12
Translation
All documents submitted by the Requesting State shall be translated into the language of the Requested State.
Article 13
Provisional Arrest
1. In case of urgency, a Contracting State may request the provisional arrest of the person sought pending presenta-tion of the request for extradition. A request for provisional arrest may be transmitted directly between the United States Department of Justice and the Ministry of Justice of the French Republic, by means of the facilities of the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), or through the diplomatic channel.
2. The application for provisional arrest shall contain:
(a) a description [*26] of the person sought and information concerning the person’s nationality;
(b) the location of the person sought, if known;
(c) a brief statement of the facts of the case, including the location and approximate date of the offense;
(d) a description of the laws violated;
(e) a statement of the existence of a warrant of arrest or a finding of guilt or judgment of conviction against the person sought; and
(f) a statement that a request for extradition for the person sought will follow.
3. The Requesting State shall be notified without delay of the disposition of its application and the reasons for any denial.
4. A person who is provisionally arrested may be discharged from custody upon the expiration of sixty (60) days from the date of provisional arrest pursuant to this Treaty if the Requested State has not received the formal request for extradition and the supporting documents required by Article 10.
5. The fact that the person sought has been discharged from custody pursuant to paragraph 4 of this Article shall not prejudice the subsequent rearrest and extradition of that person if the extradition request and supporting documents are delivered at a later date.
Article [*27] 14
Additional Information
1. If the Requested State considers that the information furnished in support of a request for extradition is not suffi-cient to fulfill the requirements of this Treaty, that State may request that additional information be furnished within such reasonable length of time as it specifies. Such additional information may be requested and furnished directly be-tween the United States Department of Justice and the Ministry of Justice of France or through the diplomatic channel.
2. If the person sought is under arrest for purposes of extradition and the additional information furnished is not suf-ficient or is not received within the time specified, the person may be released from custody. Such release shall not pre-clude the Requesting State from making another request in respect of the same or any other offense.
3. When the person is released from custody in accordance with paragraph 2, the Requested State shall notify the Requesting State as soon as practicable.
Article 15
Decision and Surrender
1. The Requested State shall notify as soon as possible the Requesting State of its decision on the request for extra-dition.
2. If the request is denied in whole or in [*28] part, the Requested State shall provide an explanation of the reasons for the denial. The Requested State shall provide copies of pertinent judicial decisions upon request.
3. If the request for extradition is granted, the authorities of the Contracting States shall agree on the date and place for the surrender of the person sought. The Requested State shall also notify the Requesting State of the length of time the person has spent in detention for purposes of extradition.
4. If the person sought is not removed from the territory of the Requested State within the time prescribed by its law in the case of the United States, or in the case of France within 30 days from the date set for the surrender in accordance with paragraph 3 of this Article, that person may be discharged from custody, and the Requested State may subsequent-ly refuse extradition for the same offense.
5. In the event circumstances beyond the control of either Contracting State prevent the surrender or reception of the person sought, the Contracting States shall agree on a new date for the surrender, and the provisions of paragraph 4 of this Article shall apply.
Article 16
Temporary and Deferred Surrender
1. If the [*29] extradition request is granted in the case of a person who is being prosecuted or is serving a sentence in the Requested State, the Requested State may temporarily surrender the person sought to the Requesting State for the purpose of prosecution. The person so surrendered shall be kept in custody in the Requesting State and shall be returned to the Requested State after the conclusion of the proceedings against that person, in accordance with conditions to be determined by mutual agreement of the Contracting States.
2. The Requested State may postpone the extradition proceedings against a person who is being prosecuted or who is serving a sentence in that State. The postponement may continue until the prosecution of the person sought has been concluded and any sentence has been served.
Article 17
Requests for Extradition Made by Several States
If the Requested State receives requests from the other Contracting State and from any other State or States for the extradition of the same person, either for the same offense or for different offenses, the executive authority in the case of the United States and the competent authorities in the case of France shall determine to which State [*30] the person will be surrendered. In making its decision, the Requested State shall consider all relevant factors, including but not limited to: whether the requests were made pursuant to treaty; the place where each offense was committed; the respec-tive interests of the requesting States; the gravity of the offenses; the nationality of the person sought and the victim; the possibility of further extradition between the requesting States; and the chronological order in which the requests were received from the requesting States.
Article 18
Seizure and Surrender of Property
1. To the extent permitted under its law, the Requested State may seize and surrender to the Requesting State all ar-ticles, documents, and evidence connected with the offense in respect of which extradition is granted. The articles, doc-uments, and evidence mentioned in this Article may be surrendered even when the extradition cannot be effected be-cause of the death, disappearance, or escape of the person sought.
2. The Requested State may condition the surrender of the property upon satisfactory assurances from the Request-ing State that the property will be returned to the Requested State as soon as practicable. The [*31] Requested State may also defer the surrender of such property if it is needed as evidence in the Requested State.
3. The rights of third parties in such property shall be duly respected.
Article 19
Rule of Speciality
1. A person extradited under this Treaty shall not be detained, tried, convicted, punished, or subjected to any re-striction of his freedom in the territory of the Requesting State for any act prior to the person’s surrender, other than the offense for which extradition has been granted, except in the following cases:
(a) when the Requested State has given its consent. A request for such purpose may be submitted, to-gether with the documents listed in Article 10, and any statements made by the person extradited con-cerning the offense for which the consent of the Requested State is requested; or
(b) when, having had the opportunity to do so, the person extradited did not leave the territory of the Re-questing State within 30 days of his final release, or returned to the territory of the Requesting State after having left it.
2. If the denomination of the offense for which a person has been extradited is altered during the proceedings under the laws of the Requesting [*32] State or such a person is charged with a differently denominated offense, the person shall be prosecuted or sentenced provided the offense under its new legal description is:
(a) based on the same set of facts contained in the extradition request and its supporting documents; and
(b) punishable by the same maximum penalty as, or a lesser maximum penalty than, the offense for which he was extradited.
Article 20
Reextradition to a Third State
1. When a person has been surrendered by the Requested State to the Requesting State, the Requesting State shall not surrender the person extradited to a third State for an offense prior to the person’s surrender, unless:
(a) the Requested State consents to such surrender; or
(b) the person extradited, having had the opportunity to do so, did not leave the territory of the Request-ing State within 30 days of the person’s final release, or returned to the territory of the Requesting State after having left it.
2. Before granting a request under paragraph 1(a) above, the Requested State may request the documents referred to in Article 10, and any statements made by the person extradited with respect to the offense for which the consent [*33] of the Requested State is requested.
Article 21
Transit
1. Either Contracting State may authorize transportation through its territory of a person surrendered to the other State by a third State. A request for transit shall be made through the diplomatic channel or directly between the United States Department of Justice and the Ministry of Justice of the French Republic. The facilities of INTERPOL may also be used to transmit such a request. It shall contain a description of the person being transported and a brief statement of the facts of the case. A person in transit may be detained in custody during the period of transit.
2. No authorization is required where air transportation is being utilized by one Contracting State and no landing is scheduled on the territory of the other Contracting State. If an unscheduled landing occurs on the territory of the other Contracting State, that Contracting State may require the request for transit as provided in paragraph 1. That Contracting State shall detain the person to be transported until the request for transit is received and the transit is effected, so long as the request is received within 96 hours of the unscheduled landing.
Article [*34] 22
Representation and Expenses
1. The Requested State shall advise and assist the Requesting State in connection with a request for extradition. Such advice and assistance shall be rendered in accordance with the provisions of the accompanying agreed minute, which shall form an integral part of this Treaty.
2. The Requesting State shall bear the expenses related to the translation of documents and the transportation of the person surrendered. The Requested State shall pay all other expenses incurred in that State by reason of the extradition proceedings.
3. Neither State shall make any pecuniary claim against the other State arising out of the arrest, detention, examina-tion, or surrender of persons sought under this Treaty.
Article 23
Consultation
The United States Department of Justice and the Ministry of Justice of the French Republic may consult with each other directly or through the facilities of INTERPOL in connection with the processing of individual cases and in fur-therance of maintaining and improving procedures for the implementation of this Treaty.
Article 24
Application
1. This Treaty shall apply to offenses committed before as well as after the date it enters into force. [*35]
2. Upon the entry into force of this Treaty, the Treaty of Extradition between the United States of America and the Republic of France signed at Paris January 6, 1909 and the Supplementary Convention signed at Paris February 12, 1970 with Exchanges of Letters signed at Paris June 2 and 11, 1970, shall cease to have effect between the United States of America and the French Republic. Nevertheless, the 1909 Treaty, as supplemented in 1970, shall apply to any extra-dition proceedings in which extradition documents have already been submitted to the courts of the Requested State at the time this Treaty enters into force.
Article 25
Ratification and Entry into Force
Each Contracting State shall notify the other of the completion of the constitutional procedures required for the rati-fication of this Treaty. The Treaty shall enter into force on the first day of the second month following the date of re-ceipt of the last notification.
Article 26
Termination
Either Contracting State may terminate this Treaty at any time by giving written notice to the other Contracting State through the diplomatic channel, and the termination shall be effective six months after the date of receipt of such notice. [*36]
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed this Treaty.
DONE at Paris, in duplicate, this 23rd day of April, 1996, in the English and French languages, both texts being equally authentic.
Agreed Minute on Representation
It is agreed that each country wishes to provide the other with the greatest degree of legal representation and legal advice (at no cost to the other) as would be permitted under its constitution and laws.
In the spirit of this agreement, the two countries further agreed to provide each other legal advice and representa-tion (including representation in court) at least equal to that given to any other country pursuant to an extradition rela-tionship whether existing at the present time or entered into in the future.
For the United States, the agreement means that, at a minimum, the United States will provide legal counsel to re-view each request for extradition submitted by France with a view to advising and counseling France concerning strengths and weaknesses in its case. Further, to the extent necessary and appropriate, the legal counsel will work with France to improve the documentation in order to increase the likelihood of France’s being successful [*37] in its request for extradition. Further, the United States undertakes to provide representation for France in all courtroom litigation arising in connection with a request for extradition and all pre-hearing and post-hearing matters connected therewith. Finally, the United States undertakes to provide representation for France in connection with all appellate and “Habeas Corpus” actions in regard to a request for extradition.
For France the agreement means that at a minimum, France agrees to the following:
1) to include in the file presented to the Chambre d’Accusation any memoranda or document transmitted by the U.S. Government in support of its extradition request in order to allow the United States Government to conduct a con-tinuing written defense of its extradition request;
2) to request that the United States provide supplementary information or explanations as deemed necessary;
3) to communicate to the U.S. Government the notice of transmittal of the extradition request to the Parquet Gen-eral of the Chambre d’Accusation;
4) to seek to postpone the ruling and to transfer the case to another session of the Chambre d’Accusation, in order to allow the U.S. Government, if necessary, [*38] the opportunity to argue its position and to submit additional memo-randa in response to the oral arguments put forward by the defense. This postponement would be within a strict time limit and could be pronounced automatically or at the request of the Parquet;
5) to receive communications from a U.S. Consular official or official of the U.S. Department of Justice designated to represent the United States interests in matters related to the extradition request. The names of these officials will be given to the Ministry of Justice and, if necessary, the prosecutor in question, for each extradition request;
6) to provide the authorized representative of the United States an opportunity, as soon as the extradition request is made, to furnish by note to the Ministry of Justice, all legal or factual data that he or she deems useful to support the request;
7) to communicate to the U.S. Government, by means of notice from the Ministry of Justice to the Embassy of the United States in Paris, that the request has been transmitted to the appropriate public prosecutor’s office;
8) to notify the Embassy of the United States in Paris the date of the first hearing during which the extradition re-quest [*39] will be examined by the Chambre d’Accusation;
9) to provide an opportunity for the authorized representative of the United States to furnish, before the hearing, an additional note within a sufficient time period for the interested party to be notified and for the note to be added to the file;
10) to provide an opportunity for the authorized representatives of the United States to communicate, in a timely fashion, through the Ministry of Justice, to the same degree permitted to the Ministry of Justice, with the parquet gen-eral prior to the hearing examining the extradition request.
Nunes has the transcripts!!To hell with Comey. Comey needs to resign or be fired NOW!
Oh you just KNOW they did ....... does Tahiti have an extradition agreement with the US? /sarc
Of course.
If they could pack us off to crematoria, I assure they would.
All that stops them is the Second Amendment, don't ever forget that.
Possible indeed. How about this?
The Obamas just got an advance on a book deal, valued at $60 million. They put the money in Michelle’s name, so she can channel it out of the country to Qatar or the UAE, neither of those countries have an extradition treaty with the US.
Obama is on an island. He boards a yacht and sails to Indonesia, which also does not have an extradition treaty with the US.
From there, he flies to Qatar or the UAE, and he lives high on the hog, making sure he stays in countries that can’t extradite him (mostly Muslim countries).
Anthony Weiner was the Nexus of the Universe. Apparently.
Does Tahiti have extradition agreements with the US?
If Obama still has his Secret Service detail then they can arrest him
It is absolutely proven— These are intelligence agency transcripts !! They have notations they were sent to the “ WH”!! Bombshell!!
Nunes said yesterday at his WH press conference that intel reports on Trump transition went to the Obama White House.
I want to negotiate treaties with France.
And be paid by the word.
It is getting to the point that it seems the deep state can only be defeated by eliminating the intelligence community and starting over. Spooks could apply for their jobs back and the good ones might pass a lie detector and review process. But getting rid of a few people at the top won’t solve the problem.
Trump will be lining up new FBI Director candidates to interview.
Grabbed this from Wikipedia (which isn’t the gold standard of accuracy).
Polanski’s case is a bit different from Snowden’s. Polanski is a French citizen, Snowden is a US citizen. France and the US do have an extradition treaty, and it is Polanski’s French citizenship that seems to be the only thing keeping him secure (France does not extradite its own citizens).
The question now is whether a full scale surveillance of Obama and all his minions would be justified. I say yes.
The question is...Would they arrest him or have a beer with him?
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