Posted on 07/22/2018 10:30:09 AM PDT by conservative98
A top Republican on Sunday criticized President Trump for missing a “good opportunity” to confront Moscow about election meddling during his controversial news conference with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
“The president missed, I think, a really good opportunity to distinguish the United States from any other country, but especially from Russia,” Rep. Trey Gowdy, the chair of the House Oversight Committee, said on “Fox News Sunday.”
The South Carolina lawmaker urged Trump to listen to his advisers and the intelligence community when they tell him the Kremlin interfered in the 2016 presidential election.
If he doesn’t listen, they should step down, he said.
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Gowdy is an old hand at missed opportunities.
GOP filth.
/spit
Rep. All-hat-no-cattle speaks
Why do people think the know what Trump has said to Putin behind closed doors? He needs to say something tough publicly like Obama did, well not really, which amounted to nothing?
Hey Gowdy, you POS, look at the missed opportunity you have on your head, Oh I forgot YOU WERE INVOLVED IN THE ATTEMPTED OVERTHROW OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT and THE IRS ABUSES, otherwise you would have exercised your Authority to get the TRUTH out there.
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.
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. EXCEPT The President and Vice President
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.
So many presidents, and so few statesmen.
I only clicked on this to write that very acronym.
Trey, you are dead to me.
Bttt
What Russian meddling Gowdy? Hilary and the U1 deal? Gowdy was a major disappointment to me.
Yes we should place meddling as a higher priority than past presidents failures with Russia.
Put a cork in it Gowdy, you’re done.
What a fool who thinks we are fools.
You have no idea what the President & President said at their private meeting but you are going to tell POTUS what he should have said?
Your masters think its more important to get Russia & America’s relationship back to a cold war than to advance the possibility of a less adversarial relationship with limited mutual goals? Why are you on this bandwagon when it is documented that America has done so much worse than a few ads and mild disinformation. Our interference in the Middle East & Latin America is legendary. But shame shame Russia for pretty much par for the course meddling.
Rather Shame on us for using password for password, for zero for standing down, for tolerating years of Clinton leaving our intelligence agents and sensitive information dangling in the breeze. Muh Russia Muh Foot!
Because you are so great at confronting problems VERBALLY.
Then, after the VERBAL confrontation, you, sir, are a wuss.
Well, President Trump isn’t that shallow. He confronts in a meaningful way.
Trey, take that idiot Rubio and move to TV shows that suit you better.
I am glad this “top Republican” is quitting.
Our “intelligence community” tried to prevent US from electing President Trump. They are not on the side of the citizens, the Constitution or the rule of law.
Bush League Republicans MUST become extinct before the Republic does.
Gowdy: Roosevelt and Churchill missed ‘good opportunity’ to confront Stalin. We could’ve nailed that mass-murdering communist dictator and allowed Russia to be totally destroyed way back in 1941.
Gowdy knows all about missed opportunities.
Hiltery Rotten Clinton has never been criminally prosecuted for her crimes against American security.
Gowdy a big talker and full of posturing at those hearings. But a worthless tin can when it came to doing anything to hold people accountable.
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