"Army Major (Hasan) Played Role in Presidential (Obama) Transition"
Posted on 04/26/2013 10:09:37 AM PDT by Lucky9teen
Unfortunately, because of who handles the actual removal from office, that won't happen, since they are just as complicit. But impeachment....it's a start.
It’s a fantasy and a pipe dream.
Obama WILL NEVER get impeached OR convicted with this Congress.
Hell, they won’t even oppose him on policy - instead they go along with him.
You think Boehner is going to even allow such a measure to come to his floor??
Pure fantasy. Never will happen.
94. Having his much overweight wife, without any authority, attempt to change eating and food habits of our children and for calling American children FAT while not looking at herself in a mirror.
95. Having his wife be attended to by at least 42 people for her daily dress, hair, and miscellaneous treatment at taxpayer expense.
96. Allowing his wife and family, at tax payer expense, go on extravagant and highly expensive vacations and retreats.
97. Being unable to throw the first pitch all the way to the catcher instead of after 1 or two bounces.
Someone’s been busy....nice work.
That.
This article is just as damning if not moreso to the elected Republicans who have held office since Nov 2008 than it is to Obama.
John Boehner and co need to go.
The problem here is that the IMPEACHMENT PROCESS have never EVER EVEN ONCE resulted in the removal of a President from office, by that Constitutional procedure in the ENTIRE HISTORY of the country.
It sounds good, in theory, but it’s NEVER WORKED ONCE in practice. The last example of it “in action” was with Clinton and it was a MISERABLE FAILURE!
Zero has committed impeachable crimes but this not a serious list. There are a lot of unprovable accusations.
I don’t think you can impeach a President with “unprovable” accusations.
I say, LET’S ROLL!
Magical thinking is cute for children....in adults? Not good.
98) Faggotry.
Dereliction of Duty during Benghazi, and the carefully orchestrated lies coordinated with the media to minimize damage to 0bama’s re-election are enough to get 0bama impeached.
Grand results of all this...........crickets! Ain’t nuthin’ gonna happen to THE one. Sorry damn state of affairs.
Hear, hear! Our fathers would have thrown him out a long time ago. Sadly our fathers would never have elected him. We get the _king_ that we desire. YHWH said we wouldn’t like it, but we insisted on having a king, like the other nations...
I wonder how many of these violations fit into the definition of treason??
Giving aid and comfort to enemies of the United States seems to be his strong suit.
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To avoid the abuses of the English law (including executions by Henry VIII of those who criticized his repeated marriages), treason was specifically defined in the United States Constitution, the only crime so defined. Article III Section 3 delineates treason as follows:
Iva Toguri, known as Tokyo Rose, and Tomoya Kawakita were two Japanese Americans who were tried for treason after World War II.
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
However, Congress has, at times, passed statutes creating related offenses that punish conduct which undermines the government or the national security, such as sedition in the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts, or espionage and sedition in the 1917 Espionage Act, which do not require the testimony of two witnesses and have a much broader definition than Article Three treason. For example, some well-known spies have been convicted of espionage rather than treason.
The Constitution does not itself create the offense; it only restricts the definition (the first paragraph), permits Congress to create the offense, and restricts any punishment for treason to only the convicted (the second paragraph). The crime is prohibited by legislation passed by Congress. Therefore the United States Code at 18 U.S.C. § 2381 states “whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.” The requirement of testimony of two witnesses was inherited from the British Treason Act 1695.
One of American history’s most notorious traitors is Benedict Arnold, whose name is considered synonymous with the definition of traitor due to his collaboration with the British during the American Revolutionary War. However, this occurred before the Constitution was written. Since the Constitution came into effect, there have been fewer than 40 federal prosecutions for treason and even fewer convictions. Several men were convicted of treason in connection with the 1794 Whiskey Rebellion but were pardoned by President George Washington. The most famous treason trial, that of Aaron Burr in 1807 (See Burr conspiracy), resulted in acquittal. Politically motivated attempts to convict opponents of the Jeffersonian Embargo Acts and the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 all failed. After the American Civil War, no person involved with the Confederate States of America was tried for treason, though a number of leading Confederates (including Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee) were indicted. Those who had been indicted received a blanket amnesty issued by President Andrew Johnson as he left office in 1869.
The Cold War saw frequent associations between treason and support for Communist-backed causes. The most memorable of these came from Senator Joseph McCarthy, who accused the Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman administrations of “twenty years of treason.” As chosen chair of the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee, McCarthy also investigated various government agencies for Soviet spy rings; however, he acted as a political fact-finder rather than a criminal prosecutor. The Cold War period saw few prosecutions for treason. On October 11, 2006, a federal grand jury issued the first indictment for treason against the United States since 1952, charging Adam Yahiye Gadahn for videos in which he appeared as a spokesman for al-Qaeda and threatened attacks on American soil.[27]
I wonder if I can bet on this in Vegas. The odds will suck, but it’s a sure bet he won’t be impeached.
very well explained - thank you!
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