Former independent counsel Kenneth Starr, who headed the investigation that led to Clinton’s 1998 impeachment, argued that it did not rise to the level of witness intimidation … Throughout the Global War on Terror we have heard repeatedly from our military and civilian leaders that this was a new kind of war, a war that requires new methods, new ideas, "thinking outside the box." And wouldn’t you know it, the president hit both spaces on the “Shit Trump Will Pull During the Impeachment Inquiry” bingo card on Friday.

Posted by Desta BishuEthiopian ReviewAugust 5th, 2009 Major David J.R. Frakt gave a blistering argument, a virtual indictment of Cheney, Rumsfeld and Gonzales for enabling war crimes in his request for pre-trial dismissal in the case of United States v. Mohammed Jawad, the 12 year old child that was tortured by the United States then […] Sen. Lindsey Graham talks with reporters in the senate subway before the continuation of the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump on Jan. 28. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler and the other House Democratic impeachment managers walk through the Capitol Rotunda as work resumes in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 24. . Police in New York clashed with protesters, arresting at least 50 of them on Wednesday night following earlier demonstrations calling for a full count of all ballots cast. Personal attorney to President Donald Trump, Jay Sekulow, speaks during the impeachment trial against President Donald Trump in the Senate on Jan. 27. Henry Major.com. “That the Constitution would empower thousands of state and local prosecutors to embroil the President in criminal proceedings is unimaginable,” they wrote in their filing. ambassador, says he’s not resigning (Washington Post), Warren details how she'd transition country to 'Medicare for All' (Politico), How Deval Patrick and Michael Bloomberg Could Alter the 2020 Race (NYT), Ex-WeWork CEO Adam Neumann eyes $45M penthouse on Park Avenue (NYP), “He does nothing without a quid pro quo” (Politico), T-Mobile CEO John Legere isn’t taking the WeWork CEO job, sources say (CNBC), U.S. court rules Kentucky man can get “IM GOD” license plate (AP), A Nutella Hotel Is Opening in California (KCTV), 3 Indiana Judges Suspended After White Castle Brawl That Left 2 Of Them Wounded (NPR), — The strangely familiar nightmare of impeaching Trump— Clues to the identity of Anonymous, who wrote the explosive White House op-ed— Former Fox News staffers demand to be released from their NDAs— Why crypto-crooks have their sights set on Iceland— A sustained booing reveals Trump’s true face— From the archive: A portrait of Kim Jong Un, part man, part myth. Holmes previously told lawmakers in a closed-door deposition last week that he and two other State Department staffers joined Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, for a July 26 lunch in the Ukrainian capital. Senate Democrats seized on a letter by Mueller complaining that Barr’s short report to Congress “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of this office’s work and conclusions” and therefore threatened to “undermine a central purpose” of the special counsel: to ensure “full public confidence in the outcome of the investigations.”. Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) speaks to reporters as he walks toward the Senate chamber after a break in the impeachment trial of President Trump at the U.S. Capitol, on Jan. 23. They are of a nature which may with peculiar propriety be denominated political, as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself.” Congress can conclude that the same conduct raised in the Mueller report justifies removal from office, even if it is not criminal. The Gateway Pundit, a conservative blog, twisted reporting in The Washington Post to falsely accuse Vindman of coordinating with the whistleblower to initiate an “attempted coup of President Trump.”. The ambassador said he also had “no reason to doubt that this conversation included the subject of investigations,” but claimed he did not recall “discussing Vice President Biden or his son on that call or after the call ended.”, Trump last week assailed Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, as she testified before House impeachment investigators, tweeting that the countries where the career foreign service officer was previously stationed “turned bad.”. Criminal Law and Procedure Section 35-45-2-1. In this image from video, the vote total, 52-48 for not guilty, on the first article of impeachment, abuse of power, is displayed on screen during the impeachment trial against President Donald Trump in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Feb. 5. In this Tuesday, Feb. 4 photo, President Donald Trump greets Chief Justice John Roberts as he arrives to deliver his State of the Union speech, at the Capitol in Washington. Successful witness intimidation or murder renders a witness unavailable, which means that the witness's testimony is likely to be inadmissible in court.

He put on the court record the outrageous duplicity before congress and criminal acts of Donald Rumsfeld.

As Marie Yovanovitch testified that she was “devastated” to learn that Trump had trashed her to Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky, calling her “bad news” and saying, ominously, that she was “going to go through some things,” the president tweeted: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1195356198347956224, After reading the statement aloud to Yovanovitch, committee chairman Adam Schiff asked her to respond, to which she expressed worry that Trump’s cyberbullying, whether intentionally or not, would scare off potential witnesses who might come forward.

President Donald Trump on Thursday appeared to level another real-time attack against a witness in the House impeachment inquiry, questioning the testimony of …

resent [Trump’s] un­or­tho­dox style and his intrusion on their ‘turf,’ ” Johnson wrote to the top Republicans on the House Oversight and Intelligence committees. Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., from left, with Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas and Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind., speaks to reporters at the Capitol on Jan. 27, during a break in the impeachment trial. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) called the tweet “witness intimidation in real time by the president of the United States.” The articles of impeachment for Presidents Bill Clinton and Richard M. Nixon both included charges based on attempts to manipulate witness testimony. This one was prepared by the NSC’s Ukraine expert,” deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley said in a statement that implicitly referred to Vindman. White House lawyers were to resume their defense of President Donald Trump at his Senate impeachment trial Monday as explosive revelations from former national security advisor John Bolton increased pressure on Republicans to call him as a witness. House Democratic impeachment manager and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y. arrives at the Senate with carts of documents as work resumes in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2020. I … “Then she should meet with the other Never Trumpers, who I don’t know & mostly never even heard of, & work out a better presidential attack!” he wrote around midday. The Republicans are given no due process whatsoever.

White House adviser and former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks during the impeachment trial on Jan. 27. After the conclusion of the call, Holmes said he asked Sondland “if it was true that the President did not ‘give a s--t about Ukraine,’” an assessment with which Holmes said Sondland agreed.

Per the Washington Post: The filing by the president’s private lawyers represents a historic moment that will test the court and highlights the Constitution’s separation-of-powers design. [2][3], Witness tampering is a criminal offense even if the attempt to tamper is unsuccessful. The attacks resumed as Vindman prepared to testify in public. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters during the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress on Jan. 23 on Capitol Hill in Washington. Schiff obviously agreed, commenting that “some of us here take witness intimidation very, very seriously,” which some interpreted as a reference to another article of impeachment. JAG Fract, by winning this case with this damning evidence has put into the legal record, a basis for trying Yoo, Cheney, Rumsfeld and other high level Bush administration officials as … The U.S. case against Stone—the last person charged during Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s 22-month investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election—included evidence that President Donald Trump knew about WikiLeaks’ plans to release emails damaging to his rival, Hillary Clinton. Bemba had separately been convicted of crimes against humanity and war crimes arising from atrocities committed in the Central African Republic in 2002 and 2003, for which he was sentenced to 18 years in prison. California’s authority to set such standards dates back to the Clean Air Act of 1970. But critics wrongly challenge Barr’s and Mueller’s declination to prosecute. Several witnesses in the inquiry have already faced aggressive smear campaigns fueled by Trump and his allies.