Posted on 04/10/2018 2:28:12 PM PDT by detective
Department of Justice Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed Northern District of Illinois U.S. Attorney John Lausch to oversee the delivery of more than 1.2 million documents demanded by Congress from the FBI. Congressional investigators claim the FBI has ‘slow-walked’ the release of the information needed for the lawmakers’ investigation and some lawyers are saying the DOJ’s appointment is nothing but “political theater” to avoid contempt of Congress. Sessions and FBI Director Christopher Wray made the decision to tap Lausch over the weekend after a subpoena deadline imposed by Congress on Justice Department Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein passed without action.
President Trump also pressured the DOJ to turn over the documents on Saturday tweeting that the DOJ was “slow-walking” the requests to Congress related to the FBI’s investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private server to send classified information.
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Same as the old FBI.
The FBI continues to defy Congressional Subpoenas and continues to cover up the Clinton/Obama corruption.
Trump better get off his ass and start striking back. They’re playing him. I know he’s smart but they’re coming at all directions including internally.
Start by firing Mueller and Rosenstein, end with and FBI raid on the offices of Mueller, Mueller’s lawyer, Rosenstein and Rosenstein’s lawyer. Then dare them to actually convict him in impeachment proceedings in the Senate.
“Trump better get off his ass and start striking back. They’re playing him. I know he’s smart but they’re coming at all directions including internally.”
6D interuniversal chess, dude
Yea, and it's all part of Sessions secret reverse double secret probation plan right?
I’ve been an ardent supporter of Trump since he announced. I’ll tell you this.
Trump is treading water and his appointments keep tossing him anvils.
They are delaying until the midterm elections hoping the Rats will at least win the House and throw a monkey wrench into everything.
Put me in charge of the FBI. I would start charging for each criminal issue for each email received. I’d get them in jail for jaywalking or tax evasion if needed as long as they are out of the government. There are dozens of people with verifiable hundreds of crimes and these criminals still walk free and not a single criminal charge on them.
I would have cuffed Hillary on the first instance of a 18 U.S. Code violation. With all of the violations under USC 18, she would have been in jail for life. Yet she walks free. Once she is in prison, then pile on every crime you can find on her until there are at least a thousand year sentence.
I’d go one by one until they were all in jail. The government needs to be cleansed of traitors and criminals. Currently they are running the place. We can’t continue much longer this way.
They have a problem: November is still a long way off.
The Republicans are smart to press now because if history is any indication they’ll stall and stall and then open a floodgate where anything actually important will be strategically buried amidst fluff and daily activities. The Democrats will then act as if any inability to find incriminating evidence quickly will mean there is none. That will be mindlessly parroted by the media and their base ... who if we must be honest, and we must, wouldn’t care one jot if a picture of Hillary and Obama holding the pillow over Scalia’s face were found.
Don’t worry, Sarah...Your sources have told you the IG report will be devastating. So keep your chin up, honey.
that should be enough grounds for Sessions to demote Rosenstein, at the very least. But he hasn't. And so this strings out closer and closer to midterms. But nobody's interfering with the elections, right?
Some people haven't been clued in yet.
Sessions is only playing dumb while quietly amassing tremendous amounts of hard evidence on all of the criminals and weasels and seditionists in The Swamp.
He is crossing every 'T' and dotting every 'I'.
Then (maybe in a week or a month, or two, or three) he is going to spring into action and drain the entire Swamp in one fell swoop!
the Founders knew well the character of a political scoundrel and with that they also knew that it will take US citizens to control a corrupted government. The corrupt in DC will never be removed by their corrupted colleagues, ain’t going to happen. End of story.
I’d like to slow walk their salaries.
We have been hearing that for months now.
Sessions is apparently corrupt.
Sessions is a disgrace
Congress is playing the game just as much as the DOJ and FBI. If Congress really wanted answers and Documents, they have the absolute authority to pretty much whatever they please.
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.
Not smelling right.
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