Posted on 04/16/2017 10:32:15 AM PDT by blueyon
The opposition research firm that hired a former British spy to dig up dirt on Donald Trump last year is refusing to answer questions recently posed to it by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The firm, Fusion GPS, is protected by attorney-client privilege and the First Amendment, its attorneys said in a letter to the committee.
The chairman of the Senate panel, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, sent a letter to Fusion GPS last month inquiring about the Trump research project.
Fusion GPS, which was founded by former Wall Street Journal reporter Glenn Simpson, hired ex-MI6 agent Christopher Steele in June to uncover any Trump ties to Russia. Steele produced a series of memos laying out various allegations about Trumpworld’s ties to Russian government officials. For its part, Fusion GPS was on the payroll of an unidentified Democratic ally of Hillary Clinton’s.
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Oh, if only we had a rack.
Keep pushing....do NOT let them put you off...or they will forever.
An opposition research outfit enjoys attorney-client privilege? That’s a neat theory.
I’ll give you one guess.
Jeb Bush. John McCain. Both faithfully serve as an ally to HRC.
So tired of unnamed sources showing up in every column produced.. on both sides.
The firm, Fusion GPS, is protected by attorney-client privilege and the First Amendment, its attorneys said in a letter to the committee
In front of the Judicial Branch of Government YES, in front of CONGRESS, NO!!!
Congress has ALL the power in washington, the executive and judicial branch operate according to the whims of CONGRESS!
“U.S. CODE
TITLE 2—THE CONGRESS
CHAPTER 6—CONGRESSIONAL AND COMMITTEE PROCEDURE; INVESTIGATIONS
Sec. 193. Privilege of witnesses
No witness is privileged to refuse to testify to any fact, or to produce any paper, respecting which he shall be examined by either House of Congress, or by any joint committee established by a joint or concurrent resolution of the two Houses of Congress, or by any committee of either House, upon the ground that his testimony to such fact or his production of such paper may tend to disgrace him or otherwise render him infamous.”
Simply look up Hinds Precedents, especially chapters 53 and 51, and Cannon’s Precedents, especially chapters 184-185. You’ll find numerous detailed cases of Congress asserting its power, arresting people, holding them until they agreed to answer questions, and then releasing them. Some of these people did not refuse to appear, but simply failed to satisfactorily answer questions. One has to wonder how a previous Congress might have responded to Alberto Gonzales’s endless recitations of “I do not recall.”
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/
In 1857, a New York Times reporter refused to say which members of Congress had asked him to get them bribes (protecting his “sources” just as various Judith Millers today protect the people who feed them proven lies that costs thousands of lives), so Congress locked him up until he answered and then banned him from Congress.
In 1924 an oil executive appeared but refused to answer certain questions, so the Senate held — literally held — him in contempt. Senator Thomas Walsh of Montana argued that this question of contempt was of the gravest importance, and that it involved “the very life of the effective existence of the House of Representatives of the United States and of the Senate of the United States.” The matter was taken to court, and the witness fined and imprisoned.
Sick the EPA on them and their homes. confiscate their bank accounts for not responding, and massive IRS audits and fines.
We need to attach with the Swamp.
Attorney-client privilege?
Are they claiming to be attorneys?
My thought too.
Issue a subpoena, then go clean out the offices, every p.c., every phone and file cabinet, every shelf, drawer, trashcan, rubber machine in both transsexual restrooms.
Then put the Senate staff to work on the docs, and wait for the firms attorneys to call.
Cheryl mills pulls the same crap. Works for Clinton as a weasel and then when anything gets incriminating claims attorney client relationship. So only hire hit men that are lawyers.
Hiding criminal behavior
The First Amendment does not protect you from unlawful activity.
Attorney client privilege does not protect you from having to testify, just because you informed your attorney of unlawful activity first.
Plead the 5th. Fine. You’re scared to death and that’s your Constitutional right. These other excuses are baseless.
This is goble-de-goop legalese.
What part of the Constitution contains the attorney-client privilege? I know ObamaCare has done away with (as in killed) Doctor-Patient confidentiality. So why are lawyers special.
Read that the group included John McCANE , Mitt Romney mc Muffin and another person who they claimed was the head of the “Mormon Maphia”
When I Looked up MM it stated it was a group that went back to MLK’’s murder and included several FBI and CIA members loyal to the church.
Definitely deserves looking into!
Wish ALL of the Congressional Committee would read your post and do what they are supposed to do, assert their authority!
That is really good, thanks for posting. The only problem is that we need a real Congress. What we have now, for the most part, are a bunch of sniveling babies who’s only priority is to get reelected.
Sure haven’t heard much from Ol’ MItt ever since his meeting at Trump Tower.
Must be still trying to get his Magic Underwear off of his head from that Atomic Wedgie he likely got.
How are they protected by atty client pricked get?
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