ENOUGH WITH THE LAWYERLY WEASEL WORDS ...

One Citizen Speaking...

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ENOUGH WITH THE LAWYERLY WEASEL WORDS ... Posted: 21 Mar 2015 03:55 PM PDT Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ~ George Orwell Has anyone noticed the preponderance of attorneys in government service, not only elected officials but within their staffs. President Barack Obama is said to be a constitutional attorney, yet his actions on many occasions appear to violate the Constitution of the United States, the concept of the rule of law, his oath of office to faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and he relies on tortured legal opinions crafted by partisans as his guidelines. What is wrong with lawyers … Lawyers are taught to ignore issues of right and wrong and to serve as advocates for their client. The are able to speak out of both sides of their mouth and parse sentences to gain the most favorable interpretation – the law, truth, and justice be damned. How else can you explain the classic lawyerly comment of Bill Clinton when he said … "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If the--if he--if 'is' means is and never has been, that is not--that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement....Now, if someone had asked me on that day, are you having any kind of sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky, that is, asked me a question in the present tense, I would have said no. And it would have been completely true."  Lawyers are taught to pervert the English language in ways to shade meanings and to create litigable loopholes. Using referential language to hide true meanings and to discourage a clear understanding of the issue. An example can be found in most legislation that refers to other legislation and makes it impossible for any legislator to read, understand, and act upon a bill within the timeframe presented by the leadership. An example of this torturous construction … "Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to replace the term "navigable waters," throughout the Act, with the term "waters of the United States," defined to mean all waters subject to the ebb and flow of the tide, the territorial seas, and all interstate and intrastate waters and their tributaries, including lakes, rivers, streams (including intermittent streams), mudflats, sandflats, wetlands, sloughs, prairie potholes, wet meadows, playa lakes, natural ponds, and all impoundments of the foregoing, to the fullest extent that these waters, or activities affecting them, are subject to the legislative power of Congress under the Constitution." <Source> Many lawyers defend allegedly despicable and illegal acts by pointing to other illegal acts or the behavior of other in the past as if that somehow justifies their client’s bad behavior. Rep. Elijah Cummings [a lawyer] of Maryland, the top Democrat on the Benghazi panel, said [Committee member Trey] Gowdy's letter seemed "designed to spark a fight with a potential presidential candidate rather than follow the standard practice in congressional investigations." When congressional Democrats investigated emails sent by White House staffers under President George W. Bush from accounts at the Republican National Committee, they did not demand access to RNC servers or backup tapes, Cummings said. "We should follow this responsible approach to resolve any remaining questions" about the Clinton emails, he said.  <Source> What Representative Cummings did not say was that he was conflating and confusing the issue to pursue his continued protection of Hillary Clinton from potential criminal and civil charges. The White House staffers mentioned by Cummings were not high officials, they did not create and maintain a private email server to conduct official government business, and they did not conduct official government business using private email accounts at the Republican National Committee, but were compelled under the law [the Hatch Act] to use a separate RNC email account for political purposes. And, let us not forget the lawyers at the Department of Justice under the direction of the hyperpartisan and corrupt Attorney General Eric Holder, himself under a congressional contempt citation. Meantime, the Justice Department said this week that it shouldn't be required under the Freedom of Information Act to provide emails from Clinton that were sent from or received by her private account. Government lawyers said in a filing to a federal appeals court late Thursday that the FOIA law "creates no obligation for an agency to search for and produce records that it does not possess and control." The Justice Department acted on the State Department's behalf in a lawsuit by Freedom Watch, a conservative group led by Larry Klayman, who has filed dozens of lawsuits against the Clintons in the past. Klayman asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to hold the former secretary and top aide Cheryl Mills in criminal contempt in relation to its request for documents. Klayman says the court also should issue a subpoena for the seizure and production of the computer file server that was used to store and process Clinton's emails. The Justice Department said the requests should be denied. <Source> To review: we have Hillary Clinton, the Secretary of the Department of State, creating, using, and maintaining her own private email server to conduct government business. A server that appears to be used by other staffers in her department for the sole purpose of keeping certain official documents out of the public record and to hide a pattern and practice of corruption, malfeasance, and possibly criminal actions. To say that this server is not accessible by the government is ludicrous as it contains government data that is the rightful property of the United States government and “We the People.” Bottom line … Enough with lawyers, enough with political corruption, and enough with Hillary “old news” Clinton and her scandals. -- steve