As found on the NoQuarter site: Comment by Andrew below.
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Comment by Andrew | 2008-07-24 15:06:14
Obama has violated the Logan Act.
He must be punished.
Contact your Senator or Representative and demand charges be brought against Senator Obama.
No one has the right to make a mockery of the United States on foreign soil.
Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
This section shall not abridge the right of a citizen to apply himself, or his agent, to any foreign government, or the agents thereof, for redress of any injury which he may have sustained from such government or any of its agents or subjects.
1 Stat. 613, January 30, 1799, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 953 (2004).
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Comment by navyvet48 | 2008-07-24 15:49:55
Energy has a well thought out and written Call to Action for all to participate in involving the Logan Act.
Go to the following website:
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Here is more on that action:
President Bush-First your Seal/Now your Negotiating Powers? by energy
July 24, 2008 · 4 Comments
Update: 072308
Contact these six members of the ‘US Senate Select Committee on Ethics’ and respectfully request each and everyone of them to begin an investigation of Senator Barack Hussein Obama (D-Ill) in regards to:
(1) Obama’s visit with the Iraqi government discussion of withdrawal time lines of American troops from the region and public disclosure LOGAN ACT-does it apply
(2) Obama campaigning on foreign soil as illustrated via a flier written in German with his ‘logo’ and ‘Paid for by Obama for America’ insignia and
(3) Obama’s intentional defacement of the Great Seal of the United States.
‘The Select Committee on Ethics’ can be contacted at:
220 Hart Building, United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510.
Telephone: (202) 224 - 2981
Fax: (202) 224 - 7416
ethics.senate.gov
MEMBERS
Barbara Boxer, California, Chairman
Mark Pryor, Arkansas
Ken Salazar, Colorado
Republicans
John Coryn, Texas, Vice Chairman
Pat Roberts, Kansas
Johnny Isakson, Georgia
Posted: 072208
The article below is a motivator to contact every Republican Congressman and President Bush to immediately have the Democratic presumptive nominee Senator Barack Hussein Obama(D-Ill) cease and desist his visit to Europe and the Middle East and be held accountable for engagement in foreign policy talks with world leaders.
Furthermore, action needs to be taken to charge Obama with behavior unfit for a sitting US Senator, impersonating the duties of the Commander-In-Chief regarding US foreign policy with foreign leaders and a possible threat to US National Security, through a congressional investigation.
I cannot think of a more powerful opportunity to have Obama accountable to the State Department;President of the United States;citizens of the USA and removed as the presumptive Democratic nominee and held accountable for overstepping his Senatorial duties. Opportunity and timing is ours right now. Carpe Diem Folks!
Action to contact President Bush that he needs to take formal action against Obama needs to be implemented immediately.
Contact the White House at:
Mailing Address
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Phone Numbers
Comments: 202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414
FAX: 202-456-2461 TTY/TDD
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Please send your comments to comments@whitehouse.gov
CNN VIDEO
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
CNN Reporters: Obama “Presumptuous” & Negotiations Overstep His Authority as a Senator
Last night on Anderson Cooper 360, two CNN political analysts charged that Senator Obama overstepped his authority as a United States Senator in acting as a negotiator with the Iraqi government and publicly disclosing statements made during those interviews.
During an interview with Anderson Cooper, David Gergen, CNN’s Senior Political Analyst stated,
“Barack Obama made the first mistake of his trip, in my judgment, in releasing a statement in which he said exactly what Maliki had said in those conversations.
We have a long tradition in this country that we only have one president at a time. He’s the commander in chief and the negotiator in chief.
I cannot remember a campaign which a rival seeking the presidency has been in a position negotiating a war that’s under way with another party outside the country.
I think he leaves himself open to the charge tonight that he’s meddling, that this is not his role, that he can be the critic, but he’s not the negotiator.
We have a president who does that. So, I think the underlying facts support him, but I think it would be a real mistake — and I think it was a mistake — to get into these conversations and let it be used politically. “
Gergens comments were later echoed by a second CNN Analyst, Gloria Borger, who charged,
“I do agree with David. And Candy, in her earlier piece, talked about walking the fine line between being this candidate and being presumptuous. And I think that he may just have crossed that, because, you know, it is a tradition.
You don’t talk about these private conversations. And it’s not up to Barack Obama right now to negotiate troop withdrawals.
It’s up to Barack Obama to be on a fact-finding mission, which is indeed what he has said he was on. “
Gergen and Borger have it right, Senator Obama is not the President and in fact is not even the official presidential nominee of his party. Obama’s trip to Iraq is a taxpayer funded “Fact-Finding” mission in which he has no authority granted to him by congress nor the administration to engage in negotiations.
His actions yesterday were indeed ‘presumptuous’ and violated his duties as a United States Senator.
The President of The United States is responsible for the course of foreign policy, and although Obama has the right to question or criticize that foreign policy, he has no constitutional authority to act in a negotiative role with foreign dignitaries.
The current administration is in ongoing negotiations with the Iraqi government concerning the role of US forces in assisting that government; a government that has been strengthened by a ’surge’ that Barack Obama opposed and claimed would fail.
Obama overstepped his role as a Senator and potentially undermined ongoing negotiations by engaging in diplomatic negotiations for his political gain.
Obama actions yesterday should be condemned by other members of congress, just as former President Carter’s actions in Palestine earlier this year were condemned by congressional members.
Obama is not the President and he is on a taxpayer funded fact-finding mission.
Senator Obama’s actions in Iraq yesterday clearly demonstrated his use of this trip for political purposes; the military should immediately pull funding for the trip and charge the Obama campaign for the millions of dollars that this overseas farce is costing.
No Congressional Member has the authority to engage in negotiations or dictate US foreign policy.
Yesterday’s actions show a clear arrogance and lack of respect for the office of the presidency and state department.
J Brown
