Posted on 10/15/2018 4:38:32 PM PDT by conservative98
With the refusal of Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson last week to comply with a congressional subpoena, the deliberate destruction of congressional subpoena power is laid bare.
The blame should fall squarely on Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Why have Simpson, FBI lawyer Lisa Page, Christine Blasey Ford (who accused now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault) and many others refused to cooperate or attempted to dictate the terms and timing of their own testimony? Because Congress has given up the power to compel them.
As I described in my book “The Deep State,” one of the key moments that led to my early departure from Congress and the House Oversight Committee came when Sessions inexplicably refused to prosecute subversions of congressional authority. I knew what that decision would cost Congress and the public.
Without enforcement of congressional subpoenas, the impotence of Congress to compel evidence is revealed. And the ability to perform substantive oversight is compromised.
Anyone could have seen this coming. The moment Attorney General Sessions told me he had no intention of prosecuting Clinton IT aide Brian Pagliano, I knew the battle was lost. Pagliano refused to even appear before Congress – not once, but twice.
Up until that point, congressional subpoenas had not been optional except in cases of executive privilege. That’s why President Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder faked an executive privilege claim to protect documents in the Fast and Furious investigation. At the time, it was the only way to subvert congressional authority.
But thanks to Jeff Sessions, that is no longer the case. Once one witness got away with flouting a congressional subpoena, other witnesses followed suit, confident that the Sessions Justice Department will do nothing to enforce congressional authority.
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Just a few weeks to go and Sessions will be history after the midterms.
Yup. He’s gotta go.
Chaffetz is playing fast and loose with the facts. Congress gave up its own ability to punish for contempt around 1935, turning it over to the DOJ.
No one’s been punished for it since a Republican in 1983.
Ask Lois Lerner and Bryan Pagliano.
Sessions recused himself from anything having to do with Hillary Clinton.
Sessions also assiduously avoids the vicinity of Fort Marcy Park.
Trump’s worst cabinet appointment, and I was initially a Sessions supporter.
What a flaming bag of dog poop that turned out to be.
Chaffetz was worse.
Chaffetz was worse.
Yes, I don’t really understand what was the deal with Session.
He will be arresting Hitlery by the weekend.
I’ll take that bet.
Yep. That's the way it goes when playing 3-D chess. 3-D or whatever it is now, 4-D, 5-D, 44-DD?
Sessions is on tape with his cheek-chillers on and rodent lube in hand.
He’s decided that sacrificing America is preferable to that tape being outed....
Where’s EZ E?
The rapper? Not sure.
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