Come hell or high water Nancy Pelosi wants the phone records of the leaders of the MAGA movement.
Earlier this week, Congress voted to hold former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in contempt and sent a criminal referral to the Justice Department. The vote followed Meadows' decision to stop cooperating with the House select committee investigating the United States Capitol attack.
Meadows had previously complied with the committee. His attorney and the committee said they had understood how the exchange of information would proceed.
However, he and his lawyer found the subpoenas overly broad and a violation of executive privilege. (RELATED: Judge to Hear Trump's Case Against Jan. 6 Committee)
For Meadows, it was a bridge too far.
Meadows sued the committee and Speaker Pelosi after Congress' contempt vote.
The American Spectator's Melissa Mackenzie explains in a special report:
In retaliation, the committee read out texts, and doctored texts, on Monday between Meadows and Fox News hosts and the president's son. It was lost on Democrats and the media that the text messages actually prove there was no attempted coup from within the Trump administration or his family.
SEE ALSO: Jan. 6 Committee Admits Text Was Doctored
Meadows' lawsuit is serious but will D.C.'s political judges allow it to be heard on its merits or the politics of post-January 6?
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Nearly one-third of the complaint is dedicated to a subpoena Verizon received that Meadows seeks to quash. It's going overlooked by nearly all in the media — and that includes conservative media. This part of the complaint has the most profound civil liberties implications not just for those being deposed by the select committee but for all Americans.
SEE ALSO: Cheney Raises Possibility of Criminal Charges Against Trump
It's been reported, by CNN (which seems to be a dumping ground for committee members and their staff violating the secrecy laws they're bound by), that more than 100 others have had their cell phone records seized by this committee. Other telecoms besides Verizon have had records requested from them but Verizon seems to be the only company notifying named subscribers. Are other cell phone providers just turning over this information without notifying their customers?
Mackenzie continues in chilling detail why the Verizon subpoena represents a threat to every American's civil liberties.
Read the full article here.
Perhaps there should be a counter suit for Pelosi’s phone records?. I still haven’t read anything about how her husband found out about a secret military contract causing him to buy stock in said company that only brought him $11,000,000 when it was announced. Only in one month too!
Couldn’t be insider trading, could it? Nahhhh!
First that NSA thing with Tucker, now this. Privacy may be gone – but the flouting of the law by these people is a real issue…
There is an age old saying , “if you do not want anyone to hear what you say keep your mouth shut.” The committee actually should have the power to make those talk, because of the National Security of this USA is in peril because of the Jan 6 actions, there could be limited immunity offered for anything that incriminates the people testifying.
Now unless I was taught wrong in law school, you can only invoke the5th if it involves you in what ever the investigation is about.
Whats the big deal about Meadows contempt charge, hell, over half the country holds congress in contempt. Can we have them arrested and thrown in jail? We could start with Nancy and go on from there.
I’d like to see the phone records between her and her husband before they committed insider trading and made themselves rich! Somebody should look under this woman’s skirt because I’ll bet you’ll find the biggest set of balls, you ever saw. No wonder they’re always spouting off about transgender crap. Nancy’s probably been on testosterone since her last child was weaned. What gall, this woman needs put in jail, NOT voted into another term.
Note: Hard to read what you wrote on this site. Light grey italics is how it comes up on my screen. Never any comments showing and and once you hit ADD, it disappears never to be seen again. What utter BS.