Posted on 04/07/2015 6:36:08 AM PDT by lionstar
When it was announced that Hillary Clinton was being asked to testify behind closed doors to Trey Gowdy’s committee investigating Benghazi, I assumed the veteran prosecutor had a strategy. The testimony will be under oath and taken down by a stenographer, so it will be on the record, but the American people will not be watching.
Perhaps the idea is to use the more relaxed environment to get Mrs. Clinton to open up? That hardly seems likely. More plausible is the notion that she will not have at her disposal demagogic tactics, such as her famous rant, “What difference, at this point, does it make?” – which seemed to cow her interrogators at the time, though it has taken on a life of its own as a defining moment for her.
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As long as Clinton is under oath and on the record, I don’t mind if she’s behind a closed door. In fact, I prefer it!hahaha
Trey Howdy “growing in office”....?
My, my, how SOPHISTICATED....?
UH-HUH....
Why is he allowing it? Because that’s the only way he can get her to testify.
They both know damn well that nothing is going to come of this. She's just going to fling feces at him and the American subject and the Men Seeking Men media are going to eat it up.
Because he is afraid of what Hillary has in her copy of the FBI files?
Answer: so he won't actually have to do anything about what, if anything, he learns.
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If she testifies in the open everything will be declared classified and she’ll testify to very little.
Under oath? A Clinton?
yeah right
She won’t get the sympathy this way.
Why does Hillary Clinton always get to set terms?
There could be classified issues which are not related to the seever discussed. I give Gowdy more leeway on this.
Appears Gowdy is just another version of Issa - all talk and no action...and loyal to the Establishment.
Because Hillary is at the top of the political class. Regardless of political affiliation, the political class takes care of their own. It’s very much like a mafia crime family.
The only way Gowdy can effectively cover up the treasonous misdeeds of the Republican Leadership and the Obama Administration is to keep the hearings SECRET and Behind Closed Doors.
He sold us out a long time ago.
Because that’s the only way he can get her to testify.
WRONGO, He can FORCE her to testify and if she refuses he can IMPRISON HER!!
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/
That’s my take as well. Cover-up in motion.....
the “government” is a cesspool of total corruption.
HOW MUCH MONEY DOES IT TAKE TO BUY A SENATE INVESTIGATION
why the special treatment
WHEN WILL THE REPUBS IMPEACH THE TRAITORS...
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