Rep Ted Lieu (Progressive-CA)
Posted on 04/28/2018 2:18:07 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) said on Saturday that the House Intelligence Committee's now-defunct investigation into Russia's role in the 2016 presidential election may have been a "waste of time."
In an interview on CNN, Lieu said that Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the chairman of the intelligence committee, had never been serious about conducting a thorough investigation, and tainted the probe early on with political maneuvers.
"It was already compromised from the very beginning," Lieu told CNN's Ana Cabrera. "So I could agree with you that it was a big waste of time, because Devin Nunes simply was not serious about this investigation."
That report, authored by the committee's Republicans, declared that there is no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, and placed blame on the U.S. intelligence community for failing to properly assess Moscow's efforts to disrupt the election.
The report was denounced by Democrats as an effort by Republicans to muddy the waters around the Russia investigation and protect Trump from further scrutiny.
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So is Mueller’s. And the FBIs.
The comparative intelligence, not to mention integrity of Devin Nunes and Ted Lieu, a lib hack with not a single original thought in his head, is at least 3 standard deviations. Watch the next few days for the top ten most shameless goofballs they’ll be sending out, and remember that list.
Rep Ted Lieu (Progressive-CA)
The committee did not create the conclusions he wanted it to create.
Well for Commie loons like Lieu, the investigation will NEVER end because they don’t want it to end..this is all about ONE THING and ONE THING only, the left cannot admit that they LOST..they can’t stand it..after 8 years of Obama they figured America would become 100 percent Communist, they were wrong and they are behaving like spoiled lil p*ssies who are throwing a massive temper tantrum because they LOST
Translation: He did not want to get Trump.
Watch the drive-bys scream, wail and moan over that!
Since it is now Declassified maybe the Quisling Demonrats could show us some actual evidence to back up their claims
There is NO SUCH RIGHT to withhold sources, they have been LYING about this forever.
“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.
Hey Ted you are right...we should be going after the Awans...oh wait..I get it.
I think we can all agree Mueller’s Special Counsel investigation is a waste of time and a huge waste of taxpayer’s dollars.
It didn't come to the same conclusion they wanted it to, i.e. they didn't nail Trump for Russian collusion.
Life's tough when you don't get everything you wish for.
Thanks. As I said, I intend to publish this on FR many times with the hope that someone with the power to make the change will see it.
This must be how the Dems view it.
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