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Exclusive–GOP Rep. Cloud: Homeland Security Agency Is Interfering in House’s Assassination Investigation
Breitbart ^
| 16 Jul 2024
| Neil Munro
Posted on 07/16/2024 5:14:42 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The agency run by impeached migration czar Alejandro Mayorkas is interfering with the House’s investigation into the attempted murder of President Donald Trump, Rep. Michael Cloud (R-Texas), told Breitbart News.
The shooting was “an epic failure,” Cloud told Breitbart News during an interview at the GOP’s national convention, adding, “It is very concerning that right off the bat, we see DHS [Mayorkas’ Department of Homeland Security] obfuscating as opposed to being transparent. This should be something that, regardless of party, we don’t allow this kind of thing in our country.”
The Secret Service agency is part of Mayorkas’s DHS. It is run by sociology graduate Kimberly Cheatle.
Cloud is a member of the House’s oversight committee, which is chaired by Rep. James Comer (R-KY).
“We were scheduled for a first briefing today, just on the facts of the case, what’s going on, what they know now, and DHS has stepped in between the communications now of the Secret Service and the Oversight Committee, and are now trying to control the communication between the two committees,” Cloud told Breitbart News during an interview at the GOP’s national convention
Mayorkas is now rushing to pick people within “days” for a supposedly independent review of the agency’s failure.
Since 2021, Mayorkas has used his independent power within President Joe Biden’s administration to promote the interests of migrants and to aid the migration of roughly 10 million migrants into Americans’ communities, homes, and workplaces throughout the United States. That elite-backed agenda led to his impeachment by the House in February 2024 and has crashed Biden’s polls in the 2024 election.
Cloud continued: “So Chairman Comer is issuing subpoenas to make sure that the Secret Service director...”
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arrestmayorkas; coverup; defunddhs; dhs; dhscoupattempt; hunkerdown; mayorkas
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
GETTING MORE SUSPICIOUS BY THE MOMENT.
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posted on
07/16/2024 5:17:24 PM PDT
by
ridesthemiles
(not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
These people are really walking a very thin wire. One slip and the house of cards will come ahh tumbling down!!
3
posted on
07/16/2024 5:18:15 PM PDT
by
shadeaud
(God gave us the free will and intelligence to choose right from wrong. Use it or lose it!D)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Article “The shooting was “an epic failure”
Yup. The assassin missed.
When you ask the wrong questions you get the wrong answers.
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posted on
07/16/2024 5:19:14 PM PDT
by
cgbg
("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
To: shadeaud
Ahhh-CHOOO!
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posted on
07/16/2024 5:22:16 PM PDT
by
Manic_Episode
(A government of the government, by the government, for the government)
To: shadeaud
they are on a slippery slope. (I kid myself. Give me the drum rim shot)
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posted on
07/16/2024 5:22:44 PM PDT
by
RummyChick
( )
To: E. Pluribus Unum
CONgress has their very own Jail in the basement, for over 150 years now.
“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 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.
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posted on
07/16/2024 5:24:52 PM PDT
by
eyeamok
To: RummyChick
That roof is way too steep for anybody to survive being on it! We need to consider the safety of our agents! LOL!
What a joke The secret service has become.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Should any one be surprised that Mayorkas is playing games with the investigation?
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posted on
07/16/2024 5:26:07 PM PDT
by
llevrok
(“In a time of deceit telling, the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Not to sound like “them”, but we’ve gotta face the fact that DemocRATs are America’s greatest threat.
Period.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
They cannot answer the questions. If they do, they will accidentally reveal that this was a state-sanctioned, Biden-directed assassination attempt.
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posted on
07/16/2024 5:26:51 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(If you are upset the bullet missed, contact me immediately. I'll make sure your bullet doesn't.)
To: RummyChick
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posted on
07/16/2024 5:27:11 PM PDT
by
Allegra
To: shadeaud
Why would you say that? Commy Mayorkas has swatted away any efforts to inquire question or beg answers.
He will not respond to powerful house querrys. Repubs are fun to watch. Can you say Wiley Coyote?
To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...
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posted on
07/16/2024 5:30:18 PM PDT
by
bitt
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
To: ridesthemiles
It was odd on that first night when Joe Biden announced the FBI would be investigating the assassination attempt of Donald Trump, only a few hours after the failed shooting. How did the people around Biden immediately know something went wrong?
Then things got even more sketchy when police reported the assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was spotted and photographed acting suspiciously 30 minutes before the attempted assassination. Unfortunately, they “lost track” of him.
To the commonsense observer, Crooks had to be wandering around the venue for quite a while. I mean, the scheduled start time for the speech was originally 5:00pm, yet President Trump didn’t get started until an hour later 6pm. Obviously, Thomas Crooks would have been doing something for an hour while he waited. What was it?
The sense of something sketchy increased exponentially with all the subsequent updates about the police backing down from the roof when the assassin pointed his gun at them. Especially when considering the lack of Secret Service removing President Trump from the known kill box, and the crowd yelling at law enforcement while Crooks was getting into position, a mere 400 feet from Trump.
Then we find out that multinational media conglomerate Blackrock, just coincidentally used Thomas Crooks in one of their PR ads. To top off the suspicious nature of the networks, Blackrock executives are literally in the White House guiding Joe Biden (see the Donilon family). However, even Suspicious Cat could not make up what comes next.
According to the latest CBS report, Thomas Crooks was spotted by a three-man sniper security detail. Crooks was seen using a range finder to view the stage where President Trump was soon to arrive. Then Crooks climbed onto the building that was housing the security detail and it was from that position he fired nine shots at President Trump, taking off part of his right ear.
Folks, we are not suspicious enough about this entire set of events.
VIA CBS – There were three snipers stationed inside the building the shooter used during Saturday’s shooting of former President Donald Trump, a local law enforcement officer with direct knowledge of the incident tells CBS News.
The operations plan had them stationed inside the building looking out windows toward the Trump rally. The information about the three snipers being inside the building was first reported by BeaverCountian.com.
One of the snipers inside saw Thomas Matthew Crooks outside and looking up at the roof, observing the building and disappearing, a local law enforcement officer tells CBS News.
Crooks came back, sat down and looked at his phone. At that point, one of the snipers took a picture of him. Crooks took out a rangefinder and the sniper radioed to the command post. Crooks disappeared again and then came back a third time with a backpack. The snipers called in with information that he had a backpack and said he was walking towards the back of the building.
Officers believe that Crooks might have used an air conditioning unit to get on top of the roof.
By the time other officers came for backup, he had climbed on top of the building and was positioned above and behind the snipers inside the building, the officer said. (read more)
But wait,…. It gets worse….
When justifying why the Counter Snipers were not positioned on the roof, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said Secret Service officials planning security for Trump’s rally considered the warehouse 147 yards away from where Trump spoke to be a risky position for stationing an agent.
Apparently, the Secret Service agent in charge deemed the roof slope too much of a safety hazard to transverse. [LINK HERE]
The roof atop the security counter-snipers was deemed too sloped for safe positioning. The roof behind President Trump was not.
We are not being suspicious enough.
But wait,…. It gets worse….
With all these mounting questions now beginning to become too overwhelming to ignore, even for a few within the mainstream media, something is needed to change the narrative.
Something,…. Anything…. Here comes CNN:
VIA CNN – US authorities obtained intelligence from a human source in recent weeks on a plot by Iran to try to assassinate Donald Trump, a development that led to the Secret Service increasing security around the former president in recent weeks, multiple people briefed on the matter told CNN.
There’s no indication that Thomas Matthew Crooks, the would-be assassin who attempted to kill the former president on Saturday, was connected to the plot, the sources said.
The existence of the intelligence threat from a hostile foreign intelligence agency — and the enhanced security for Trump — raises new questions about the security lapses at the Saturday rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and how a 20-year-old man managed to access a nearby rooftop to fire shots that injured the former president. (read more)
- Don’t look at Blackrock.
- Don’t look at the White House.
- Don’t look at the #1 beneficiary of the assassination plot, Joe Biden. Who is no longer seemingly under convention threat for removal.
- Don’t look at the Secret Service, the FBI or any of the various security systems that “failed.”
Nope, now the five key stenographers who constructed the Trump-Russia collusion story, are saying, look at the Iranians.
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posted on
07/16/2024 5:30:36 PM PDT
by
Bratch
To: RummyChick
Thank you-a “dangerous” 2-in-12 pitch? Mobile homes have that, and people here climb up on them to trim tree limbs all the time...
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posted on
07/16/2024 5:31:20 PM PDT
by
Texan5
("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
To: whistleduck
To: E. Pluribus Unum
As the days go by it’s becoming clear and clearer this was a freaking set up and insight job they wanted to John F Kennedy President Trump! But God got in the way and intervened! The more I see those pictures of the sniper having a direct shot at Trump the more I’m convinced God tilted trump’s head. Consider this the biggest cover-up in a presidential assassination. Why do I say that because there were thousands of people who witnessed it and thousands of cellphone videos of the sniper getting into position ready to take a shot directly towards Trump. And the SS snipers on the opposite roof hesitated to shoot the bastard and did only when three shots were already disengaged killing one innocent man and injuring two and literally by the grace of God missed Trump.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
“The Secret Service agency is part of Mayorkas’s DHS. It is run by sociology graduate Kimberly Cheatle” A security agency commanded by a sociology graduate? Hmm, I might see a problem.
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posted on
07/16/2024 5:31:45 PM PDT
by
kawhill
(kawhill)
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