Posted on 08/22/2015 6:19:33 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
The ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee is launching an investigation into the anti-abortion-rights group that has targeted Planned Parenthood with a series of undercover videos.
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) sent a letter to the Center for Medical Progress on Thursday, demanding details to show whether the group broke state or federal laws when it secretly recorded videos of Planned Parenthood staff without consent.
The Center, led by the anti-abortion activist David Daleiden, established a fake company to gain entry into clinics and meetings with Planned Parenthood officials a move that Democrats, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), have blasted as potentially illegal. The group has also been asking for donations as a nonprofit charitable organization for the last two years, which Cummings said contrasts with its current self-identification as a group of citizen journalists.
Cummings warned that if Republican leaders of the committee decide to hold hearings on Planned Parenthood, he will ask Daleiden to testify.
"Any legitimate and balanced congressional investigation must also address your group's role in these activities," Cummings wrote.
The Maryland Democrat launched his probe into the group shortly after the GOP leaders of the House Oversight Committee announced they would be investigating Planned Parenthood.
Nearly a dozen states have already launched investigations into Planned Parenthood, several of which have already ended without finding evidence of wrongdoing.
Several states including California, where the group is based have also pledged to investigate the Center for Medical Progress and its staff.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch has pledged the Department of Justice will review all evidence, but declined to say if any formal investigations will take place.
I still don’t know why Cummings isn’t in prison.
This Dem action is almost as disgusting and evil as what all those PP Beezlebubs did. I hope they all fry in Hell for all eternity.
The most worthless POS in Congress!
This Cummings has been given over to a reprobate mindset. . . . unfortunately he is not interested in the truth about Margaret Sanger’s intentions.
He’s gonna have a hell of a time when he meets God.
Literally.
That makes sense. Unless Republicans ok it, no investigation and they better not ok it.
That only applies when the rest of the ENEMEDIA and our LORDS AND BETTERS in the OBUNGHOLE offices of the REICHSSICHERHEITSHAUPTAMT (Reich Security Main Office) and the RASSE-und SEIDLUNGSHAUPTAMT (Race and Resettlement Main Office) agree with the investigation and reporting.
You have been on FR long enough to know that.
If I were the Center for Medical Progress....I might start my own probe of the House Democrats involved in this and carry a camera around to capture their ‘moments’. If you simply suggested that you might probe Cummings...he’d start to be very careful in what he said or did in public.
...... Ya ..... But .... THEY .... fail to understand that there are those of us who actually remember when America’s media and reporters were in place ... and supposed to exist to keep the Governments powers in check with our freedom ...... THEY have now become ... a pawn of the Devil who plays them ..... and now work against the freedom that once gave them utterance .... They now have no true voice. They are now captive to their master.
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