Posted on 04/22/2018 9:20:25 AM PDT by janetjanet998
WOW!!, looks like things are heating up!, but is Nunes really up to the Job??
Congress has ALL the power in washington, the executive and judicial branch operate according to the whims of CONGRESS!
“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. One has to wonder how a previous Congress might have responded to Alberto Gonzales’s endless recitations of “I do not recall.”
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/
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.
What would have been the source of this info?
Five eyes is an intel community scam. It was illegal for US DOD spy agencies like NSA to spy domestically.
They came up with the concept that the Brits spy on US citizens, we spy on theirs, and as need be they “turn over” information they have on our people.
Then they could swear they do not spy domestically.
Has anyone seen Jeff Sessions lately?
5.56mm
Has anyone seen Jeff Sessions lately?
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He’s still considering whether a second special counsel is warranted. So far, that’s a no.
It’s astounding that there have been soo many extraordinary songs and lyrics that seem to resonate with virtually everyone and,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, nothing.
Some people, “LOVE that Song” and have NO clue what the words mean.
“She works hard for the money” is about Prostitution and I’ve worked with people that didn’t know that, and used that song to promote their business.
“Babooshka”
“If you Like Pina Coladas”
I recently worked with a guy that was the sales manager and was very good at what he did. For some reason he introduced the song “If you like Pina Coladas” into his sales meeting.
Understand, this is a guy that’s in a band himself, knows music a Christian and is an exceptional manager.
I asked him if he realized what that song was actually about?
I told him, “It’s about Cheating on your Spouse”.
He had no clue. Even though he had played that song hundreds of times as a DJ or in his band.
Thankfully, I ruined that song for him.
I find it very troubling that there are more and more people, good people, that don’t listen anymore.
Not sure who said it best, but this comes close.
Missing Persons - Words
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IasCZL072fQ&list=RDIasCZL072fQ
It is all fine and dandy, yet Congress has an even greater power it has abdicated, just as sitting on its hands when investigating the executive branch amounts to a de facto abdication.
The greater power Congress has largely abdicated is that Constitutional it has the sole power of being the sole author of ALL federal legislation. It has abdicated the larger body of “federal law” to the regulatory state, and gives but a perfunctory rubber stamp - without a blink and a nod - to what the regulatory state adds to the “federal register.” The executive branch then becomes policeman, prosecutor and judge and the vast majority of what the regulatory state has added to the “law”.
Additionally, Congress has abdicated its law-making authority to the executive branch with a two-fer. It starts by writing laws that are not transparent, and sits on its hands as the DOJ and other agencies “interpret” the law and with those interpretations write additional law via “settlements” it has coerced companies and citizens into making, lest they be pursued by the DOJ all the rest of their days - no court, no judge, no transparent law, just an interpretation - de facto law - written by the executive branch while the legislature sits on its hands.
If we were to be true to the Constitutional intent, their would be no DOJ “settlements”. If the law was not clear and transparent such that “prosecution” was clear and needed no “interpretation”, then the DOJ should be required to turn to Congress for additional legislation clearly defining legislative intent. But if the law was transparent and prosecution was equally clear in the law, then the federal government should be required to bring its case to court and pay the losers costs if it loses the case. Their in court the defendant has all their rights and the federal executive cannot act alone as prosecutor and judge, even for a “settlement” which would in this case be a court required settlement not one merely imposed by the DOJ.
‘Probable cause’ is the key phrase. To imagine all of this distance covered in 16-odd months...with no probable-cause?
What I’ll wonder about is if they had intel communications, but sent them around via unclassified emails (they’ve proven to have been this stupid on other things). If we get another ten days into this, and suddenly unclassified emails exist, this will turn into a bigger mess.
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Spot on analysis. Either they started the Russia investigation based on no evidence whatsoever... which would be very bad. Or they’re holding back on an incriminating memo, which would be very bad. My bet is they just started the investigation and pretended thee was a reason... other than their real reason which was to get Trump.
It is now known that Hillary Clinton and/or her long-time associates were pulling the strings of the investigation launched against her political opponent through the State Department.
“We are not supposed to spy on each other’s citizens, and it’s worked well,” he said. “And it continues to work well. And we know it’s working well because there was no intelligence that passed through the Five Eyes channels to our government. And that’s why we had to see that original communication.”
State department is going down. And now the rats won’t approve Pompeio for State? So first things first. Who ordered the military to stand down at Benghazi?
“It’s starting to get to a large amount of evidence for Trump to fire”, AND PROSECUTE, “ the remaining employed perpetrators.”
The noise you are hearing is the screaming, weeping and gnashing of teeth of D.C. liberals.
Where does the RNC hiring Fusion GPS during the primary fit, or not?
One person we keep forgetting is Valerie Jarrett, living in DC in Obama house, Hillary and Valerie would love to take our country away, not today, MAGA
Foreign governments meddling in our elections?!!
cause of the constant denigration of California/Californians on these boards one must be constantly reminded of the great work done by Californians. First and foremost is the very boards we post on which are based in California’s Central Valley in the city of Fresno. Thanks Jim!
The list of Conservative Californians and their contributions to America’s greatness is long and distinguished. Nunes is currently at the top of this list...even though he is the target of leftists, and may have a tough re-election season this year. (Nancy Pelosi (A transplanted Maryland witch) will certainly throw tons of Democrat dollars at his opponent to prevent his re-election and the continuing exposure of DNC corruption. like every other courageous Republican we need to support these people with letters of appreciation and campaign contributions. Get the bad ones out and keep the good ones.
The Free Beacon, funded in large part by the New York hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer, hired the firm, Fusion GPS, in 2015 to unearth damaging information about several Republican presidential candidates, including Mr. Trump. But The Free Beacon told the firm to stop doing research on Mr. Trump in May 2016, as Mr. Trump was clinching the Republican nomination.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee had begun paying Fusion GPS in April for research that eventually became the basis for the dossier.
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