"Can I get me a protection fatwah here?"
Posted on 05/06/2014 8:02:19 AM PDT by Nachum
Secretary of State John Kerry has been subpoenaed to testify on Benghazi on May 21st. However, in the daily State Department press briefing on Monday, deputy spokesperson Marie Harf said that Kerry will be out of the country on that day and won’t comply with the subpoena to testify on that particular date. Harf said that Kerry “has been made aware” of the subpoena, but still plans to be out of the country and in Mexico on the 21st. She said the State Department was “surprised” that Darrell Issa skipped over offering an invitation and went straight to issuing a
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He has every responsibility to comply with ANY lawful Subpoena. He should be compelled to attend, by force of arms if necessary. If for no other reason than to show that regardless of political position and personal wealth, no one is above the law.
Flight Risk — And impound his yacht.
Simple solution:
In the FY 2015 budget, allocate ZERO dollars to any Federal department or agency which has not responded to subpoenas.
After all, all budgets MUST originate in the House. . . and if Justice, State, HHS, etc decide not to comply with the lawful requests of the House. . . .shut them down. Completely.
On the other hand. contempt for Congress is an intelligent position..
Most hold contempt for them, or could care less..
That is..... the citizens that even KNOW there is such a thing as Congress..
You know...... the Congress that financed all Barry Half-Whites treason..
THAT CONGRESS..
Kerry considers himself to be above the law.
John Kerry was in Vietnam, you know.
Her spend Christmas in Cambodia and still has the hat. /s
Not if your a RAT/MARXIST.
Drag this POS into court by his chin. Shouldn't be too hard.
Supposedly this was a pre-scheduled trip and Issa didn’t check before issuing the summons. I would imagine the SOS would publish a calendar, but maybe not, in this admin.
In any case, it should be easy enough to determine whether Kerry’s trip was already scheduled or not.
"Can I get me a protection fatwah here?"
Was that appealed? Did they ever comply?
Interesting in the ruling….
“...must provide all nonprivileged documents related to…”
For all we know he was invited by back-channels and refused.
re: State Dept.: Kerry Will Not Comply with Benghazi Subpoena
And just why should he?
Because Gowdy already has all the evidence in his possession, now he is just documenting obstruction of justice and the cover up.
Kerry Will Not Complywith Benghazi Subpoena
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of course not We (the royal we) We are above the law..
Kerry The Prince..
Agreed on all points. In the meantime, let Issa issue a contempt citation (which we know will go nowhere) and wait until Gowdy's special committee subpoenas Kerry too. When/if he refuses to comply with that one, arrest him.
People have been screaming “DEFUND” for a long time, but the stinkin’ Republicans don’t have the nuts to do it.
Nothing is going to change until they are willing to risk their “lives, fortunes, and sacred honor.”
Fat dang chance.
“If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.” ~ Barack Hussein Obama
ROFLMAO!
Stop his paycheck and expense money till he complies. Let ketchup girl pick up the tab.
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2008/aug/01/bush-aides-subpoenas-upheld/
This article is two months past the original ruling, so the Bush Admin was supposed to comply with this ruling, and I can’t find anything to say they did not or did....you may ask your congressman, since the question applies to Obama WH now.
The Bush ruling would have been a precedent case for the current ruling, so Obama WH should be told to comply.
Similarly, the Rand quote -
“When you see [that] your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - you may know that your society is doomed”
Yup, only I don't think they are all on the same side on this one. More like jostling to see who can be hung first to make this all go away.
Tell them State Department appropriations will stop until compliance is achieved.
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