Posted on 01/25/2023 1:37:31 PM PST by AnthonySoprano
The National Archives has missed the House Oversight Committee’s deadline to comply with requested documents related to President Joe Biden’s classified document scandal, according to the committee’s spokesperson.
On January 10, the committee demanded the National Archives hand over records detailing the interactions between Biden’s attorneys and the Justice Department on or before January 24.
“The National Archives has not produced the requested documents to the Committee at this time,” the committee spokesperson told reporters Tuesday. “Chairman Comer’s request still stands and anticipates moving forward with a transcribed interview with NARA’s general counsel soon.”
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Aren’t they doing what they accused Trump of doing?
Now, Deadlines and Subpoenas don’t matter.
Raid the Slimy Woke librarians that covered for Hillary and Obama.
That’s where this whole thing started. Who thought they’d
comply if it might taint Biden?
McCarthy should have immediately signed a Warrant for the Arrest and Detainment of the head of the archives, locked him in the Congressional JAIL until the records show up...
“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.
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.
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Excellent!
Thank you!
Like the New Year’s resolutions to lose weight, exercise and lower junk food in our diets, these promises are made to be forgotten later.
Until we prosecute and jail bureaucrats and politicians who break the law without respect to their person or position - we will not see our republic restored.
is there not one Government Agency that is not infested with rat traitors?
HERE IT IS – THE SMOKING GUN:
The 20 Point Email of Classified Information from His Father
that Hunter Biden Sent to Burisma Board Member in April 2014
The Gateway Pundit ^ | January 24, 2023 at 12:46pm | Jim Hoft
Posted on 1/24/2023, 6:28:21 PM by E. Pluribus Unum
As reported earlier by Cristina Laila – According to emails uncovered from the “Laptop from Hell,” Hunter Biden sent his business partner Devon Archer a very detailed email on Ukraine on April 13 12, 2014 – just one week before Joe Biden visited Ukraine to meet with then-Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
It appears that Hunter Biden was emailing Devon Archer information he received from a briefing his father and Vice President Joe Biden held earlier. Or the information may have come directly from top-secret documents.
The Gateway Pundit scoured the bowels of the Hunter Biden laptop and found the document in question.
The images come from the Marco Polo report on Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Rest on FR
“Imprisonment may be coercive or punitive.”
I’d like to go with punitive. Judge, hit him with 25 years.
Call that person to testify before the committee on Monday.
Order them to appear before Congress and send the House Sargent at Arms to arrest them .... at their homes and in front of cameras and their families.
Thanks Liz.
The scope of my comments was intended to address the issue of
classified documents, the most recent scandal they have tried
to lay at Trump’s feet.
The leader at the National Archives complained that Trump
hadn’t turned some documents over to them, and from there
it escalated to the FBI swat team invading Mara Lago.
Now we’re back to the National Archives, and mysteriously
the Archives is not turning over requested documents.
Things have gone full circle on this issue.
Your information was interesting. I appreciate you providing
it.
Did NARA ask the nice teacher for an extension to turn in their homework to Congress?
Easy, don’t funds their agency yearly; fund monthly until they come around.
Thank you for the relevant info! I’m sure some “journalist” will basis a question in a few weeks or slow news day.
Yes, sad but true.
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