Posted on 05/26/2019 10:05:28 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Rep. Liz Cheney said Sunday anti-Trump text messages exchanged between then-FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page reminded her of a coup and suggested it could be treason.
“I think what is really crucially important to remember here is that you had Strzok and Page who were in charge of launching this investigation and they were saying things like, 'We must stop this president, we need an insurance policy against this president,'” the Wyoming Republican said during an interview with ABC News' “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.”
"That in my view when you have people that are in the highest echelons of the law enforcement of this nation saying things like that, that sounds an awful lot like a coup and it could well be treason.”
The U.S. Constitution defines treason as assisting U.S. enemies or “levying war” against the U.S.
Cheney, who is the Republican Conference chairwoman and the third-ranking House GOP lawmaker, referred to a key criticism of Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Strzok and Page have long been at the center of some Republicans' "investigate the investigators" strategy.
Attorney General William Barr this month ordered a federal prosecutor to investigate the origins of the Russia investigation. The inquiry is the third known federal investigation trying to uncover information about the start of the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia that later turned into special counsel Robert Mueller’s federal Russia investigation.
Strzok was a lead investigator in the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's unauthorized private email server and also worked on special counsel Mueller’s investigation when James Comey was FBI director.
He and Page, who were involved in an extramarital affair, attracted scrutiny after it was revealed in December 2017 that the two exchanged text messages...
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Liz comes around. Where’s Dick?
Dick likely still has his head up W’s butt.
Stay quiet Dick, stay out of sight. No one wants to hear or see you, ever.
When the Soviets once punished a traitor, you know what they did to him..?
They threw him into a furnace of molten steel.
Sedition not treason.
Gee Liz, welcome to the party. Nothing we here didn’t know 3 years ago.
Here is exactly what Penkovsky did for us (ratted out the Russians for Cuban Missiles, and much more) and what they did to him after he was caught:
It is a damn coup.
Just being my strict-constructionist self, I don't think it's "treason", more like "sedition".
TheEspionage Act of 1917 was created for exactly this sort of heinous behavior that for technical reasons falls short of actual treason.
The Espionage Act of 1917 made it a crime to interfere with the war effort, disrupt military recruitment, or to attempt to aid a nation at war with the U.S. Wartime violence on the part of local groups of citizens, sometimes mobs or vigilantes, persuaded some lawmakers that the law was inadequate. In their view the country was witnessing instances of public disorder that represented the public's own attempt to punish unpopular speech in light of the government's inability to do so. Amendments to enhance the government's authority under the Espionage Act would prevent mobs from doing what the government could not.[7]The Sedition Act extensions were used against high-visibility Communists at the time:
In June 1918, the Socialist Party figure Eugene V. Debs of Indiana was arrested for violating the Sedition Act by undermining the government's conscription efforts. He was sentenced to ten years in prison. He served his sentence in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary from April 13, 1919, until December 1921, when President Harding commuted Debs' sentence to time served, effective on December 25, Christmas Day.[22] In March 1919, President Wilson, at the suggestion of Attorney General Thomas Watt Gregory, released or reduced the sentences of some two hundred prisoners convicted under the Espionage Act or the Sedition Act.[23]Sadly, the Sedition Act extensions to the Espionage act were repealed at the end of WW1, but the Espionage Act still stands, and I believe Assange has just been charged under it.
What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
The last time they tried to remove a President. It appears it is time to enforce it again? http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NR_THk0hPaQ/VocobZjzoUI/AAAAAAAAKME/JgaUDNV0r4s/s1600/Execution%2Bof%2Bthe%2BLincoln%2Bconspirators%252C%2B1865%2B6.jpg (I can never figure out how to post the Pix, to old to learn now.)
They are going to be over charged so they can plea deal down to sedition. 20 years each in the federal hoosgaw- no early release
Frog March+Gallows+Commons+PayPerView= Justice+Catharsis
Sedition requires force. See 18 U.S. Code § 2384. Seditious conspiracy.
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how bout if the "small group" cabal (crossfire hurricane) attempted a coup d'etat in which foreign nations (fisa fiveye +) were complicit? didn't trump sign a declaration of national emergency or war early on in his term in office? wouldn't this qualify as treason?
I would think that attempting a coup against a sitting President would be an act of war against the US.
Nonsense. It's a very simple tag, much easier than posting links. It's {image source="X"} were the { are really < like all other HTML tags, and the X is the name of the file, ending in .jpg or other known picture formats.
Here it is in use:
I would think that attempting a coup against a sitting President would be an act of war against the US.
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Agree with you
#2 you are going to need a diagonal support or someone might get hurt at the hanging : )
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