Posted on 07/14/2022 1:21:47 PM PDT by Red Badger
Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee want answers about a new Department of Homeland Security policy that lawmakers say requires them to get privacy release waivers from criminal non-citizens accused of terror and assassination plots, in order for DHS to give them information about the threats.
In a letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, obtained by Fox News Digital, Republicans on the committee say the agency "has implemented a new policy requiring Members of Congress to obtain signed privacy release waivers from criminal non-U.S. citizens, including those illegally in the United States, and submit that waiver to the Department before the Department will provide the Committee with general information about the threats posed by such individuals."
They say the policy was communicated to them after they requested briefings about two alleged plots. The first was an alleged ISIS-inspired plot to assassinate former President George W. Bush, and the second an alleged July 4 mass shooting plot by two illegal immigrants.
"It is unconscionable that DHS would implement or maintain any policy or practice to directly or indirectly inhibit Congress’s ability to conduct timely, highly relevant oversight that may require legislative action," the letter by Reps. John Katko, R-NY, August Pfluger, R-Texas, and Mayra Flores, R-Texas, says.
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There is only one solution. Cut their budget.
The side that the democRATs protect tells you all you need to know about them.
It is seditious that DHS would implement or maintain any policy or practice to directly or indirectly inhibit Congress’s ability to conduct timely, highly relevant oversight that may require legislative action.
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Corrected for accuracy.
DHS has gone Rogue.
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Stop complaining and go to court. We need to wage war on the establishment. They are the enemy within.
It is possible that, rather than illegal aliens, this is directed at State Nationals.
State Nationals are patriots that have 'restored' their status by renouncing their 14th amendment UNITED STATES citizenship, while retaining their Citizenship of their state of domicile.
So DHS tells congress what congress xcan and can not do.
Congress is missing a great opportunity to cut the budget. Cut the FBI 20% per annum and the DHS 20% per annum.
Like, to ZERO.... Someone needs to remind these bureaucrats that they report to Congress and not vice versa...
Just how much help were these Republicans we speak of here,
during the Trump administration?
IMO > none at all.
Did they fund the border wall? Enough said.
Now they have another excuse. It’s all they ever have.
Excuses, and grand promises for action as soon as they get
the majority,... and then nothing at all as long as they
have it.
I’m so sick of this dog n pony show.
“It is unconscionable that DHS would implement or maintain any policy or practice to directly or indirectly inhibit Congress’s ability to conduct timely, highly relevant oversight...”
They know you won’t do a damn thing about it, so unless you want these policies and more like them in place forever, stop talking about it and do something to rein in these agencies the next time you get a Congressional majority.
(But I’m certain they will do nothing, even with a supermajority and the presidency, since everyone in Congress seems to be blackmailed by the intelligence agencies)
More decisions made by Federal middle-level bureaucrats implying departmental policy etched in stone.
I thought the recent SCOTUS decision regarding the EPA determined that policy should be legislated for change, not just for Mayorkas' convenience.
Since when is a Federal agency not responsive to the Congress ?
Maybe department heads need to be replaced and fly elsewhere.
I think the rule is to cover for their CIs involved in the plots.
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 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.
DHS was a bad idea from day one.
There is nothing they can do but cut their budget and wait for a Republican appointee.
Fixed it for you......
So these non-citizens can do terrorist acts and ...: 9/11 comes to mind where two agencies didn’t bother to pass on information.
Shut the DHS down completely then rebuild it. Do the same with the DOJ, FBI, and ATF.
They have all become worthless and even harmful to Americans.
I highly suspect that this ne ‘policy’ is aimed at the next Congress that the DHS believes will be Republican....
Deep State controls Congress.
We’ll get no help there.
But ill the Congress, this or the new, wield that power against the DHS?
Not if the DHS has them blackmailed...........
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