The judges should be the first to swing.
I really like, and trust, Andrew McCarthy.
The FBI and DOJ and their Cheerleaders, (Democrats and GOP Elite) are again in the spotlight for an almost total redaction of the FISA Documents.
The American Public is patient, but their patience is wearing thin.
It might have been better for the FBI/DOJ to refuse to reveal anything.
Stunning!
We have no nation left to save.
We have no Constitution left to protect.
Watergate was a shoplifted pack of gum compared to this, which is the most massive political scandal in our nation’s history, and the MSM is sitting on it. If the media was fair in this nation, this powerder keg would have exploded all over the Democratic Party, the FBI, the DOJ, and Barak Obama & Co., over a year ago. Instead, most of the nation is sleepwalking through this devastating and catastrophic scandal.
Courts and then prisons should be filled with people from Obama’s Administration and from the FBI.
I said from the beginning that the judges were in on it.
This is more stunning coming from Andy McCarthy, as all along he has not been ant-DOJ. He has been very sympathetic to them. If he is saying this, it is as bad as many of us had assumed.
Trump should appoint a whole new set of FISA judges in the wake of this whole mess.
“””YouGov asked U.S. adults: “Do you believe Donald Trump is being framed by the FBI and the Department of Justice?”
Sixty-one percent of Republicans responded with “Yes, he is being framed.” Just 17 percent said he was not being framed while 21 percent were not sure.”””
This poll was conducted a couple of months ago. It seems that any Republican candidate who is challenging the veracity of the FBI/DOJ will do very well in the November election.
On the other hand the Republican politicians who are Never Trumpers will not do well in November or have already opted to not run such as Paul Ryan and Jeff Flake and others.
Once it was out that the FISA judges had been lied to, you would expect them to drag the FBI back into the court to explain themselves.
But that didn’t happen, which is how you know the judges are complicit.
The judges are complicit. They are in on the game.
Judging by the amount of flak Trump and conservatives are taking, I would say the bombers are over the target. They are insane from everything Trump - the Mueller trip, the Putin Trump meeting, poor dying kids on the border, etc. I have never seen it so rancid.
Do we know who actually did the reduction of the documents? Do we have an individual’s name?
CONGRESS IS THEIR DADDY and has ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY over ALL OF THEM, they are ALL a creation of congress, the ONLY reason they have not acted yet is the Leadership of BOTH PARTIES IS INVOLVED or are actively protecting their buddies, just as bad if not worse.
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.
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. EXCEPT The President and Vice President
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.
What is going on?...not encouraging developments for a big collusion/conspiracy/coordination indictment from Mueller.
Some former federal prosecutors were asked if they saw any messages in Mueller’s move. The takeaway:
<><>”...proves that little if any of what Mueller’s team has generated so far is linked to the special counsel’s mandate,” said Former Prosecutor 1. “Everything that is public so far could, should and typically is handled by either US Attorney offices of jurisdiction; National Security Division attorneys, or even Criminal Division attorneys at Main Justice.”
<><>”Mueller doesn’t have anything on collusion,” said Former Prosecutor 2. “...we would have seen it. I don’t see anything that looks like a crime lurking — maybe he’s got eight indictments under seal, but to me, it makes no sense. All of this says to me there is no there there.”
<><>Former Prosecutor 3 said the investigations passed off — Cohen and Butina — indicate the subject matter is “outside [Mueller’s] jurisdiction.”
So there.