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Kimberley Strassel: Obtaining phone logs of political rivals is a stunning abuse of congressional power
The Wall Street Journal ^ | 12/7/2019 | Kimberley A. Strassel

Posted on 12/07/2019 6:26:13 AM PST by george76

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To: george76

The republicans have three ongoing investigations of the rats. Why don’t we use the same power that the rats used and obtain their phone records?

If they can do it to us, then we should do it to them. Get a judge to over-rule our obtaining of records and use the courts to push back at the rats. Nip this BS in the bud now, otherwise, it will get worse.


61 posted on 12/07/2019 9:00:25 AM PST by Dacula (Epstein did not kill himself.)
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To: george76

Political games is exactly why the NSA was started.


62 posted on 12/07/2019 9:07:02 AM PST by bgill
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To: RegulatorCountry

Then, Schiff should be the face of how We the People decide to deal with such corruption.
I would propose a photo of Schiffty, a rope, and a DC lamppost, all connected together, distributed far and wide.


63 posted on 12/07/2019 9:28:58 AM PST by Fireone (Build the gallows first, then the wall!)
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To: george76

If Adam Schiff was the president and he did these things, he would be impeached.


64 posted on 12/07/2019 10:43:09 AM PST by murron
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To: george76

In “Rules For Radicals” you accuse the ones you call your enemies of doing what you have done and/or planning to do so that when your subjects find what you are doing your inoculated against their spent outrage.


65 posted on 12/07/2019 10:43:16 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: george76

The guess is that he used another player that used an NSF to get the phone logs. No judge required but it has to be national security.


66 posted on 12/07/2019 11:36:54 AM PST by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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To: Sacajaweau
Let’s see what judge issued the warrant.

Like the liberal wiener on the View, you apparently do not know, Congress doesn’t need a judge to sign a subpoena. Congress has the power to issue issue their own subpoenas, and it can delegate that power to a committee, or to a committee chair or individual congreeman, if the committee chair or congressman has been granted that power by the House in a resolution.

67 posted on 12/07/2019 2:12:58 PM PST by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigot!)
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To: budj
That's the problem: these congressional committees have their own subpoena power. No judge was involved.

AT&T should have demanded a warrant, signed by a judge. Shame on them.

All it takes is an anti-Trump puke at Verizon and AT&T who agrees with the Democrats that Trump should be impeached who will say we can skip the legal department and send out what ever they want, who cares about legal niceties like “Do they have the authority to ask for these data or not? Who are the numbers assigned to, and does it invoke privilege?” That any legal beagle would immediately inquire. Nope, just some low level manager probably got served and caved, gleefully.

68 posted on 12/07/2019 2:23:29 PM PST by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigot!)
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To: griswold3

https://youtu.be/SKOCmBXrVY8

Nazi show trial.


69 posted on 12/07/2019 2:32:06 PM PST by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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To: Truth29

Didn’t someone say on FOX that was a mere matter of asking AT&T to produce the records and it was done? Nothing was said about a warrant that I heard...


70 posted on 12/07/2019 3:28:42 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Swordmaker

I’m afraid the Democrats are trying to run the clock because they have plans to end this presidency by any means necessary and they are doing their best to stall his progress. I am deeply worried about the President ‘s safety and the fate of all Americans. The Left is spinning out of control and they aren’t afraid of consequences for their actions.


71 posted on 12/08/2019 1:42:35 AM PST by binreadin
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