I’m afraid I don’t understand this concept.
A congressional investigating committee doesn’t have the power to compel a witness to produce evidence? Really?
Yes, but the DOJ has the right to seize the Server, and they have the power and the right to investigate this to the fullness of the law
Uniparty eunuchs doing the DC Kabuki theater?
What if the server is under control of the Secret Service? Who paid for it? Who is paying the monthly/yearly fees or for its maintainance?
Is it personal property, or was that server paid for by the GSA and provided to former president Clinton? Who paid for the server?
I guess Hillary must have spoken with him.
Because if she does she is done!
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/
I am rooting for the Anonymous kids, on this one... let’s hope they’re on it.
Whether Gowdy or Issa - these hearings have been jokes. They even make real prosecutions less likely, if that is possible. Bring back the independent prosecutors.
Oops, there goes that boating accident.
Sad......I knew they weren’t going to do a thing, but to see it in print is awful.
“I don’t know why she doesn’t just turn the server over.”
Gee, I do.
A Lot of things can happen in that amount of time....
Then get rid of the committee, because it apparently has no useful function.
Funny... the IRS can seize anything they want to seize..
and Congress can seize nothing?..
SOMEONE... is playing hockey with a warped puck.. with no ice.. and a bent stick..
Gowdy: the proverbial tits on a boar.
There he is folks, give him a hand....Trey Gowdy once again doing what he does best, talking tough the day previous, protecting DC the day of.
This guy has not produced shit, literally nothing but sound bites to stoke his ego on the nightly news cycles. Playa’s like him are going to be left wondering just what the hell happened in 2016 when turnout plummets. WE gave them the seats, THEY piss it away in DC playing theater and cozying up to the dem’s behind closed doors (and you better damn well believe these selfish pricks do it)