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Panetta: 'Constitutional crisis' if Trump allows memo to be released over FBI objections
The Hill ^ | 2/1/18 | John Bowden

Posted on 02/01/2018 5:43:44 PM PST by markomalley

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To: The Antiyuppie

“If someone poots, the Dems call a constitutional crisis. Go right ahead. We are all crisised out.”

Damn straight. Watergate has been over a long time. And they are now the badguys.


61 posted on 02/01/2018 6:09:29 PM PST by Luke21
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To: markomalley

So the Swamp brought in a heavy hitter, and this is the best he could come up with?

Sad.


62 posted on 02/01/2018 6:09:36 PM PST by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: markomalley
We have check and balances. But you have to establish ways for those checks and balances to work," the former Obama administration official continued.

Funny thing, Leon, but it seems those checks and balances didn't come into play when your Democrat pals were illegally surveiling their opponents.

63 posted on 02/01/2018 6:11:29 PM PST by Major Matt Mason (The U.S. Senate - where American freedom goes to die.)
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To: markomalley

Hey Leon. You are an Idiot. Bing “Congress for Kids” - I don’t google. The checks and balances in the Constitution refer to the three branches of our government, Congress, The Courts, and The Executive. Not the President, FBI and the Justice Department which are all part part of the Executive branch.

Bet Baron could have told you that!


64 posted on 02/01/2018 6:11:33 PM PST by 386wt
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To: markomalley

You are spot-on. The letters FBI in sequence, all caps, appears nowhere in the Constitution. If it ceased to exist, it would not foment a crisis. And, now that I mention it, maybe it should be zeroed out.


65 posted on 02/01/2018 6:11:37 PM PST by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: markomalley

The day of reckoning has come and those under judgment are squealing. They never thought this day would come but it has.


66 posted on 02/01/2018 6:11:55 PM PST by DarthVader ("The biggeest misconception on Free Republic is that the Deep State is invulnerable")
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To: markomalley

Constitutional crisis?

The left has tortured the Constitution until it is beaten, scarred, and bloodied.

The left sees a right to murder babies in the Constitution.

The left sees a right to sell pornography in the Constitution.

The left sees a right to homosexual sex in the Constitution.

The left sees a right to homosexual marriage in the Constitution.

The left sees a right for homosexuals to foster and adopt children in the Constitution.

The left sees a right to punish anyone who dissents in the Constitution.


67 posted on 02/01/2018 6:12:36 PM PST by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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To: markomalley

Where are these people coming up with this stuff? Chief executive exercising his prerogatives over and executive agency is hardly a con-cri.


68 posted on 02/01/2018 6:12:51 PM PST by Fhios (1987 - Where's Waldo. 2017 - Where's Jeff Sessions?)
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To: markomalley
and you were OK with blowjob berry announcing binladin's death before we would could capitalize on the information recovered in the raid?
69 posted on 02/01/2018 6:13:36 PM PST by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: markomalley

A Constitutional crisis is having a man acting as President that the Constitution says cannot be President.
Like the last eight years.


70 posted on 02/01/2018 6:13:57 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: markomalley

PU-LEEZE.


71 posted on 02/01/2018 6:13:59 PM PST by madison10 (Pray for President Trump.)
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To: savedbygrace

The Dims are throwing a hysterical gaslighting tantrum as a warning to not escalate this issue. If they tantrum over a memo imagine what they will do over a special prosecutor and a perp walk?


72 posted on 02/01/2018 6:14:18 PM PST by lodi90
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To: markomalley

Seems like it would be more of a Constitutional crisis if the memo is not released to the People.


73 posted on 02/01/2018 6:16:57 PM PST by mom.mom (...our flag was still there.)
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To: markomalley

You are correct.

The memo was sent to the White House by congress, or a committee authorized by congress and the president chooses to act on that memo.

All exactly as the Constitution requires.

Panetta was a Clinton associate for so long he can’t get over it.

And I would not be surprised if he ends up with swamp scum on him.

I always put him in the same category as Podesta.


74 posted on 02/01/2018 6:17:16 PM PST by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so terrible, so disgraceful, that the federal government can not make worse)
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To: markomalley; All

Exactly!

The Deep State is in pure in panic mode.

This is when they are most dangerous.

I’m worried about a possible False Flag. Sort of like train incident? They will want a major distraction to prevent the memo from being released.

We have the Super Bowl coming up this Weekend. I’m very concerned they may use this event as a distraction.

Scary times...


75 posted on 02/01/2018 6:17:19 PM PST by Enlightened1
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To: jimfree

LOL!!!


76 posted on 02/01/2018 6:18:01 PM PST by savedbygrace
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To: markomalley
Yep, it's right there in the Constitution.

Article II, Section 5:

"The President may not take any Action against the Advice of the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation."

Case closed.

/s

77 posted on 02/01/2018 6:20:42 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: markomalley

Link to Meet the Press twitter on Panetta with video. Been up for a short while, but already accumlating negative comments =>

https://mobile.twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/959199539977773059


78 posted on 02/01/2018 6:22:17 PM PST by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: markomalley

Panetta really doesn’t like IC oversight, does he? I bet he fantasizes about having run the KGB, STASI or Gestapo. Oh, to have such power! Unlimited and unaccountable to the “small people!”


79 posted on 02/01/2018 6:22:58 PM PST by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: markomalley

“Now come the overnight calls for Nunes to recuse, followed tomorrow afternoon by stmts from ‘watchdog groups,’ all based on claims that no one can verify.”

7:53 PM - 31 Jan 2018

https://twitter.com/omriceren/status/958911187101593601


80 posted on 02/01/2018 6:25:07 PM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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