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MENS REA”: On January 16, 1944, the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., and one of his deputies, Randolph Paul, personally visited the President Franklin D. Roosevelt in order to coerce him to finally act and do something to help refugees escaping The Holocaust. More diplomatic efforts had failed, so Morgenthau's approach strengthened. The report brought to the President reveals a desperate and necessary act to coerce a response from an administration that was systematically and overtly preventing both private and official help for the victims escaping Hitler. The report documents a pattern of attempts by the State Department to obstruct rescue opportunities and block the flow of Holocaust information to the United States. Morgenthau warned that the refugee issue had become “a boiling pot on [Capitol] Hill,” and Congress was likely to pass the rescue resolution if faced with a White House unwilling to act. Roosevelt understood the deep implications and pre-empted Congress by establishing the War Refugee Board. The result was “Executive Order 9417” creating the War Refugee Board, issued on January 22, 1944. – A.E. Samaan	added by AlvaroSiman 3 years ago
I think it's important to point out that the Biden approach was very different in the sense that it looks, as far as we can tell, that it was inadvertent, that these documents were in these locations, when they were discovered, they were immediately provided to the archives or to the Justice Department. There was no effort to hold on to them, no effort to conceal them, no effort to obstruct the Justice Department's investigation. – Adam Schiff	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Senate Republicans have made very clear they will block legislation to fund the government if it includes bipartisan permitting reform, they've chosen to obstruct instead of work in a bipartisan way to achieve something they've long claimed they wanted to do. – Chuck Schumer	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
In pursuing the investigation, prosecutors have asked and the school district certainly agrees, and we have made the commitment not to do or say anything that would confuse, interfere with or in effect obstruct their pursuit of justice on behalf of the victims of these criminal acts, the school district is honoring that commitment. – Tim Mullins	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The opprobrium from the Defense Department, from the White House, from the State Department, is frankly laughable, right now, they have done everything to obstruct the situation. – Peter Meijer	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
They're understandably nervous but they've been focused on getting justice for a long time so they're ready, there's definitely that fear of enablers doing things to try to obstruct justice. But we're confident in the evidence and we're confident in the jury. – Gerald Griggs	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Every engagement in diplomacy has been designed to further the nuclear program, not to find a way out... I just urge people not to let the tactical ambiguity obstruct the strategic clarity about North Korea that we have, so we should not be overly encouraged if suddenly (North Korea leader Kim Jong Un) proposes dialogue tomorrow, nor should we be overly surprised, or discouraged, if there’s an ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) launch by Sunday. – Antony Blinken	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The objects we see that obstruct ink in the printing process include mostly debris from the printing floor. This debris rarely stays affixed to the notes, and this is no debris; it is a foreign object that should have never made it onto the printing floor. – Dustin Johnston	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Right now, we don't know whether it will be abused, if they're going to use it to obstruct absolutely everything, then I'm prepared to change my mind. – Chuck Schumer	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Gregory McMichael phone call shows from day one there was an attempt by these defendants to influence and obstruct the investigation of this case. – Jesse Evans	Found on CNN 5 years ago
That is not the standard the court must look at, prosecutor Jesse Evans must look at whether the defendant had the intention of obstructing and influencing the investigation, and that is the purpose of Gregory McMichael phone call, to show that he wanted to influence and obstruct this. – Jesse Evans	Found on CNN 5 years ago
House Republicans' sad stunt shows that their only focus is to delay and obstruct urgently-needed action to meet the needs of American workers and families during the coronavirus crisis. – House Republicans	Found on CNN 6 years ago
2019 came close to being the year of executing the innocent, our courts and public officials too frequently flat out ignore potentially deadly mistakes, and often take steps to obstruct the truth. – Robert Dunham	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Our courts and public officials too frequently flat out ignore potentially deadly mistakes, and often take steps to obstruct the truth, that is one of the reasons why public support for the death penalty continues to fall. – Robert Dunham	Found on CNN 6 years ago
Weve argued that American families deserve better than this partisan paralysis where Democrats literally obsess over impeachment and obstruct everything else, this very morning, for example, the Speaker gave a speech on national television to push forward her rushed and partisan impeachment. Not one word, not one word on the outstanding legislation the American people actually need. Nothing on USMCA or the NDAA or funding for our armed forces. Its all impeachment, all the time. – Mitch McConnell	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
If he continues to obstruct Congress and flout the law, Donald Trump will leave Congress in my view with no choice but to initiate impeachment proceedings, that would be a tragedy, but a tragedy of his own making. – Joe Biden	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
If he continues to obstruct Congress and flout the law, Donald Trump will leave Congress in my view with no choice but to initiate impeachment proceedings. – Joe Biden	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
It is clear that any other American would have been prosecuted based on the evidence Robert Mueller uncovered in Robert Mueller report, corey Lewandowski and Rick Dearborn were prominently featured in the Special Counsel's description of President Trump's efforts to obstruct justice by directing then-White House Counsel Don McGahn to fire the Special Counsel, and then by ordering him to lie about it. – Jerry Nadler	Found on CNN 6 years ago
Impeachment is the most extraordinary remedy the Constitution affords Congress, as a former prosecutor, I do not take this lightly. But the President continues to put his own interests above America's. He is lawless. His relentless attacks on our rule of law and numerous efforts to obstruct justice and Congress have reached such a point to require extraordinary action. It's time for Congress to open an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. – Eric Swalwell	Found on CNN 7 years ago
The Trump Administration has demonstrated repeatedly that it is willing to disregard the Constitution, defy decades of clear precedent, and invent frivolous new arguments to delay and obstruct Congress' oversight authority, and Attorney General( William) Barr and Secretary( Wilbur) Ross are complicit in this cover-up, both Secretary Ross and Attorney Attorney General -LRB- William -RRB- Barr are refusing to comply with duly authorized subpoenas from Congress. – Elijah Cummings	Found on CNN 7 years ago
The President is not above the law, and I don't accept the notion that because The President is the head of the executive branch The President can't ever obstruct justice in connection with executive branch activities, that's just crazy and a recipe for lawlessness. – James Comey	Found on CNN 7 years ago
The president will do anything and everything that he can to obstruct justice ... to shut down an investigation. – Maxine Waters	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Yesterday, President Trump declared to the entire country that President Trump would obstruct Congress and order all White House officials to defy lawful subpoenas from Congress, today, the Trump Administration went even further by expanding this policy to employees at federal agencies — even when the subpoenas are bipartisan and supported by Republican Members of Congress. – Elijah Cummings	Found on CNN 7 years ago
Apart from whether the acts were obstructive, this evidence of non-corrupt motives weights heavily against any allegation that the president had a corrupt intent to obstruct the investigation. – Donald Trump	Found on Reuters 7 years ago

MENS REA”: On January 16, 1944, the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., and one of his deputies, Randolph Paul, personally visited the President Franklin D. Roosevelt in order to coerce him to finally act and do something to help refugees escaping The Holocaust. More diplomatic efforts had failed, so Morgenthau's approach strengthened. The report brought to the President reveals a desperate and necessary act to coerce a response from an administration that was systematically and overtly preventing both private and official help for the victims escaping Hitler. The report documents a pattern of attempts by the State Department to obstruct rescue opportunities and block the flow of Holocaust information to the United States. Morgenthau warned that the refugee issue had become “a boiling pot on [Capitol] Hill,” and Congress was likely to pass the rescue resolution if faced with a White House unwilling to act. Roosevelt understood the deep implications and pre-empted Congress by establishing the War Refugee Board. The result was “Executive Order 9417” creating the War Refugee Board, issued on January 22, 1944.

– A.E. Samaan

added by AlvaroSiman
3 years ago

I think it's important to point out that the Biden approach was very different in the sense that it looks, as far as we can tell, that it was inadvertent, that these documents were in these locations, when they were discovered, they were immediately provided to the archives or to the Justice Department. There was no effort to hold on to them, no effort to conceal them, no effort to obstruct the Justice Department's investigation.

– Adam Schiff

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Senate Republicans have made very clear they will block legislation to fund the government if it includes bipartisan permitting reform, they've chosen to obstruct instead of work in a bipartisan way to achieve something they've long claimed they wanted to do.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

In pursuing the investigation, prosecutors have asked and the school district certainly agrees, and we have made the commitment not to do or say anything that would confuse, interfere with or in effect obstruct their pursuit of justice on behalf of the victims of these criminal acts, the school district is honoring that commitment.

– Tim Mullins

Found on CNN
4 years ago