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Pompeo Fights Back

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo today advised (actually schooled) the Democrats, explaining that current and former State Department officials will not testify before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs this week. Pompeo also complained that the committee’s letters (not subpoenas) appeared to be attempts to

The Secretary of State informed these House Democrats that he’s well aware of other letters sent to State Dept. employees outside the expected and “customary” method of communications, which is through the Bureau of Legislative Affairs.

Pompeo’s full letter explains how House Democrats (in their haste to unilaterally create and then ram articles of impeachment against President Trump through the House of Representatives) are

  • violating the constitutional rights of those they want to testify (by denying them the right to have legal counsel present);
  • failing to follow their own House procedures;
  • improperly claiming authority to compel testimony absent subpoenas;
  • refusing to give those requested to testify adequate time to prepare; and
  • demanding of them State Dept. records that “are not theirs to produce,” records which may contain privileged and/or classified information (again, without subpoenas).

More outrageous, the letters threaten current and former officials with obstruction if they do not appear (voluntarily, because there are no legal subpoenas) on the artificially accelerated timeline that is unilaterally imposed by House Democrats.

Make no mistake. This has been planned for a long, long time. House Democrats are using 6 Democrat members of the House, who head these various committees, to overturn the will of the more than 63 million people who voted to elect President Donald J. Trump.

So much for the Democrats’ professed claims to value democracy, fairness, and equality. Republicans and all the citizen whom they represent are totally disenfranchised by this “impeachment inquiry” sham.

If an impeachment inquiry is analogous to a grand jury, which hands down indictments, then this inquiry being unilaterally run by Democrats, much of it in secret without the input of even one Republican, is like having to go before a grand jury that’s been deliberately stacked with people who hate your guts and already believe you’re guilty before they hear even one word of testimony or consider one piece of evidence.

Because of the secrecy involved (on the excuse of protecting the whistleblower’s identity), nobody will ever know what happened during the alleged testimony and there’s nobody but Democrats to oversee the process.

The Democrats will, without doubt, try to charge the President and anybody from his administration that gets in their way with obstruction of Congress and contempt of Congress. In particular, they’ll go for “inherent contempt:

You can read more about it here to see how this “advice” from (where else?) a NBC/MSNBC “legal analyst” helpfully laid it all out for them just a few weeks before the alleged whistleblower’s complaint allegedly was made.

Is there even a whistleblower or is he a composite character, like those in Barack Obama’s fictional autobiography, with the complaint written by a committee of anonymous partisans?

The only fly in the “inherent contempt” ointment is this:

Now, I’m no lawyer but I read this to mean that the full House (the chamber) enforces the “mandate” and only after having passed the resolution of contempt.

Only a lawyer would be able to tell us whether these conditions will have been met regarding House subpoenas, should any actually be issued:

Are any subpoenas sent out by Pelosi’s Star Chamber legally sufficient? Has the chamber (i.e., the full House) authorized the investigation? Have the other conditions been met? Again, only a lawyer (or a judge, or the Supreme Court, perhaps) can enlighten us.

Keep in mind that House committees and subcommittees contain members from each political party. In the past, no single party has unilaterally tried to begin an impeachment inquiry and write articles of impeachment without any input from the opposing party. That would be un-American, anathema to our system of government, wouldn’t it?

Here are some interesting excerpts from Judge Gesell, in a decision during the Watergate scandal:

It is not fair or dignified to hear the head of the impeachment inquiry parodying the telephone conversation at the heart of the accusations against President Trump, instead of simply reading the transcript of the call.

It is certainly not fair and constitutional, in my opinion, to exclude the entire Republican party from the inquiry, thus disenfranchising half, if not more, of the American people from Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Star Chamber.

And it’s certainly not fair to change the rules of the whistleblower complaint procedure after the fact, in order to very suspiciously shoehorn second-hand, unverified gossip and innuendo masquerading as an “urgent” concern into the intelligence community whistleblower process. (Pay particular attention to the timeline of events recounted in this story.)

There is no fair treatment of the accused or public “full disclosure” when an anonymous “whistleblower” is allowed to testify in secret, before only enemies of the President (hardly neutral fact finders), about allegations and accusations made against the President (some already debunked), allegedly made to him by other anonymous, alleged government officials. Are the President’s rights being protected here? Hardly. Will the whole truth emerge from this Star Chamber process? Highly unlikely. The “jury” is rigged.

Remember the ratio

6 Democrat House members / more than 63,000,000 U.S. voters.

President Trump wrote today:

Looks that way to a lot of us, Mr. President.

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Source: https://wtpotus.wordpress.com/2019/10/01/pompeo-fights-back/


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