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Gowdy: Committee Lacks the Authority to Subpoena Hillary Server
breitbart.com ^ | 16 Apr 2015 | by Jeff Poor

Posted on 04/16/2015 9:42:45 AM PDT by eyeamok

Trey Gowdy (R-SC), chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, said his committee lacks the authority to subpoena former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s server

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I told you all Trey Gowdy was on the Take, he just admitted he will Not Use the Authority the House has to do anything except COVER IT ALL UP. He goes on to tell the American he doesn't have the authority, but we know he does.:: LYING POS

Where is Congress in this investigation? Darrell Issaa? “”

Doing every thing humanly possible to COVER IT ALL UP, ISSA AND GOWDY ARE COMPLICIT in all of this, as is The entire leadership of BOTH Parties, including Juan McCain.

Appearing before CONGRESS you have NO RIGHTS, You have the right to answer truthfully, that is all, you HAVE NO RIGHT against Self Incrimination, You Have NO RIGHT to say no, YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS AT ALL BEFORE CONGRESS, those are for the Judicial Branch of Government.

They dont have to, CONGRESS can do it on their Own!!

Congress has ALL the power in washington, the executive and judicial branch operate according to the whims of CONGRESS!

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. 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/

1 posted on 04/16/2015 9:42:45 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: eyeamok

Kabuki, ad nauseum, ad infinitum......


2 posted on 04/16/2015 9:45:45 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: eyeamok

LYING POS

That’s all the little jerk is.

Man, he’s something else. Always hot and bothered, jumping up and down and then....nothing.

A complete Southern Fried Fraud.


3 posted on 04/16/2015 9:46:23 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: eyeamok

Neutered! Go home, Gowdy. You’re drunk.


4 posted on 04/16/2015 9:46:39 AM PDT by dware (The GOP is dead. Long live Conservatism.)
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To: eyeamok

Unfortunately, you are most likely correct on all fronts. (His hands are tied - my foot.)

The real Question is what are “We the People” going to do about it.

The governing body with even more authority than Congress - We the People!


5 posted on 04/16/2015 9:47:33 AM PDT by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery ea)
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To: eyeamok

I don’t imagine South Carolinians will take this lying down. I respectfully suggest the good Chairman reconsider.


6 posted on 04/16/2015 9:47:48 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: eyeamok

Well thank goodness he can still write letters when he gets really, really mad.


7 posted on 04/16/2015 9:47:49 AM PDT by itsahoot (55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs. RIH-GOP)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Why doesn’t congress go the **** home. Useless group of people. Just useless.


8 posted on 04/16/2015 9:48:04 AM PDT by magua
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To: itsahoot
Go on Greta and threaten Hillary again.

What were you doing for all those years

9 posted on 04/16/2015 9:49:16 AM PDT by scooby321
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To: magua
"Useless group of people. Just useless."

Useless and expensive.

10 posted on 04/16/2015 9:49:27 AM PDT by Flag_This (You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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To: itsahoot

Issa trained him well.


11 posted on 04/16/2015 9:51:47 AM PDT by grania
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To: stephenjohnbanker; Slyfox
Perhaps the RED GLOVE Brigade ......should proceed to make plans to enter this fray??


12 posted on 04/16/2015 9:53:31 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

And people wonder why I will never believe or trust anything a Government Lawyer/ Prosecutor says!


13 posted on 04/16/2015 9:53:57 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: eyeamok

The fix is and was before it started.


14 posted on 04/16/2015 9:55:02 AM PDT by sport
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To: eyeamok
Somebody has gotten to him. He must have some skeletons in his FBI files closet.
15 posted on 04/16/2015 9:55:49 AM PDT by McGruff (Maybe my comments are too nuanced for some.)
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To: All

Well this just opened the door for every politician, state department official, etc... to have their own private email servers, to conduct Official Business, to conceal and obfuscate.


16 posted on 04/16/2015 9:56:19 AM PDT by Klemper
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To: eyeamok

Let’s stipulate that, right or wrong, Gowdy thinks he cannot subpoena the server. So, my question is, “what are you going to do about it?” Throw up your hands and let it go at that? Or, are you going to deliver the speech of a lifetime attacking Hillsry Clinton as totally I fit for ANY office because she holds the law and the people’s representatives, and therefore the people, in utter contempt? Will you not hold daily press conferences attacking her and go on every radio and TV show attacking her?”

If he believes he doesn’t have subpoena power, anything less than what I outlined would eliminate all doubt that he is bought and paid for.


17 posted on 04/16/2015 9:59:44 AM PDT by JewishRighter
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To: eyeamok

Oops. totally unfit.


18 posted on 04/16/2015 10:00:40 AM PDT by JewishRighter
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To: eyeamok
Why do I say America is finished? Just because of this. Congress is a pile of shi! and the entire federal government is useless and does not represent us the people. AMERICA IS DAMN WELL FINISHED!!! Time for the civil war to start.
19 posted on 04/16/2015 10:00:44 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: eyeamok
Tits on a bull.

5.56mm

20 posted on 04/16/2015 10:01:42 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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