Bertrand Daily Report
The War For Our Mind & Soul Continues
Subject: McCain and Graham Violated the "Logan Act"
February 11th, 2017
Ed
Note: Both McCain and Graham have clearly violated the "Logan Act" by
conducting state business with foreign leaders, and in their
case....their attempt to launch Ukraine into a war with Russia.
President Trump must rein-in these two goons fast with indictments.
McCain and Graham's only agenda is to cause Trump to react against
Russia. ---D. Bertrand
Contributor: ThePowerHour
McCain And Graham Caught Inciting Ukraine To Attack Russia
A
video has surfaced online in which warmongers John McCain and Lindsey
Graham are caught meeting with the Ukraine military, encouraging them to
launch an offensive against Russia and restart hostilities, all the
while describing Russia as the “aggressor” that must “pay a heavier price.”
Lindsey Graham delivers an incendiary speech in the video, egging on the Ukranian troops to re-start hostilities with Russia.
“Your fight is our fight, 2017 will be the year of offense. All of us will go back to Washington and we will push the case against Russia. Enough of a Russian aggression. It is time for them to pay a heavier price.“
John McCain was no less provocative:
“I believe you will win. I am convinced you will win and we will do everything we can to provide you with what you need to win.”
(Video below – Graham begins speaking at 1:10)
Seems like President Trump was right when he singled these two Senators out as “warmongers looking for ways to start WW3.”
Inside Russia reports:
In the past few days, renewed heavy fighting has broken out in
Ukraine’s Donbass region between government troops (and allied militias,
though they are supposed to be nationalized) and the separatists.
Naturally
both sides claim the other started it, but it does not take a genius to
see who has something to gain from renewed hostilities, and who has
nothing at all to gain.
Russia
and Vladimir Putin derive no benefit from an armed conflict on Russia’s
border, one which Russia is being blamed and punished for by Europe and
the United States. And it was Moscow who forced the separatists to the
table at Minsk, just when they had the upper hand on the battlefield
following Kiev’s massive defeat in the Debaltsevo Pocket.
Now,
with the coming to power of Donald Trump as president of the United
States, the putschists in Kiev have lost their principal sponsor. Trump
has made clear his intention to prioritize relations with Russia – and
European statesmen such as leading French presidential candidate
François Fillon have begun to echo him. Germany is losing enthusiasm for
this headache.
The Ukrainian government is about to find itself isolated with no friend either to the East or to the West.
Enter the malevolent minions of mischief, US senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham.
The
dastardly duo made a trip to the Donbass front line just after the new
year, where they gave incendiary speeches egging on Ukrainian troops to
restart hostilities.
We
do not know what else McCain and Graham promised Ukraine out of sight
of the cameras. But lo and behold, within weeks of this trip, Kiev
started a new round of shooting.
The
only possible motive for this outbreak of hostilities is a desperate
attempt to regain the lagging sympathy of the world – a world long tired
of Kiev’s crying wolf over “aggression” and looting billions of money
intended to boost its economy. It is also another attempt to sabotage
any US-Russian reconciliation.
John
McCain and Lindsey Graham are two men totally bought and paid for by
the military-security establishment. They serve the CIA and the Neocon
ideologues who want to spread American influence by force and believe in
provoking conflict where necessary.
And just before Trump’s inauguration McCain confessed
he had passed a defamatory “report” filled with salacious fake intel to
the FBI, doubtless in hopes of wrecking his own president’s new foreign
policy toward Russia.
Donald
J. Trump is now president of the United States. The president is head
of state, and he directs foreign policy. Period. Yes the senate has the
right to “advise and consent” on treaties and appointments, under the
constitution. But the constitution does not grant congress the right to
conduct an independent foreign policy.
In
fact, under the Logan Act, it is a felony for any US citizen to
interfere in US foreign policy without “the authority of the United
States.” Here is the full text of the act:
§ 953. Private correspondence with foreign governments.
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.
In United
States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp., 299 U.S. 304 (1936), Justice
Sutherland, writing for the Court, observed that the authority to
represent the country abroad lies entirely with the president:
[T]he
President alone has the power to speak or listen as a representative of
the nation. He makes treaties with the advice and consent of the
Senate; but he alone negotiates. Into the field of negotiation the
Senate cannot intrude; and Congress itself is powerless to invade it. As
Marshall said in his great argument of March 7, 1800, in the House of
Representatives, ‘The President is the sole organ of the nation in its
external relations, and its sole representative with foreign nations.
John
McCain and Lindsey Graham do not have the “authority of the United
States” to represent the country abroad. They do not have the authority
to promise weapons to Ukraine, or to suggest US support for a new
offensive. That authority belongs exclusively to the president and his
duly appointed officers within the executive branch. (In general, the
secretary of state, ambassadors, and members of the foreign service.)
There is no indication then-president Barack Obama granted them such
authority. And President Donald Trump certainly will not.
The
Logan Act has often been discussed in cases of politicians abroad
appearing to interfere in the president’s foreign policy positions. That
said, though the law has been on the books since 1799, there has only
ever been one prosecution under the act, and it failed.
I say it’s never too late to start.
There
has been a power change in Washington. Senators McCain and Graham, and
all of their allies in the congress and on K Street, better get with the
program. Globalism is finished. Neoconservatism is yesterday’s news.
Trump and his advisors still believe in American power. But they realize
some degree of cooperation with other great powers – principally Russia
– is going to be necessary.
Evidently, President Trump needs to make an example out of some people for them to get the message.
During the campaign, Trump’s supporters chanted about Hillary Clinton, “Lock her up!”
That should now be changed to, “Lock them up!”
John
McCain and Lindsey Graham are morally depraved warmongers. It is high
time they be prosecuted for their crimes and put behind bars.
From The Desk of Capt. Dave Bertrand (Ret.)
Int'l Airline Freight Captain (DC-8 & B-727 & First Officer
DC-10), U.S. Army Veteran Sergeant, Law Enforcement Background. Political Analyst and Activist to help "Make America Great Again.
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