Political Quotes

“Mr. Chief Justice, I send a question to the desk for the House floor managers. The CHIEF JUSTICE. Thank you. The question from Senator Wyden for the House managers: The Intelligence Community is prohibited from requesting that a foreign entity target an American citizen when the Intelligence Community is itself prohibited from doing so. In 2017, during [Director] Mike Pompeo's confirmation hearing to be the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, he testified that ``it is not lawful to outsource that which we cannot do.'' So when President Trump asked a foreign country to investigate an American when the U.S. government had not established a legal predicate to do so, how is that not an abuse of power? Mr. Manager SCHIFF. It is absolutely an abuse of power. And what is more, if you believe that a President can essentially engage in any corrupt activity as long as he believes that it will assist his reelection campaign and that campaign is in the public interest, then what is to stop a President from tasking his intelligence agencies to do political investigations? What is to stop him from tasking the Justice Department? If it can come up with some credible or incredible claim that his opponent deserves to be investigated, their argument would lead you to the conclusion that he has every right to do that, to use the intelligence agencies or the Justice Department to investigate a rival. And when they become a rival, it is even more justified. But you are absolutely right.…”