Rep Barney Frank & The FBI
Monday, May 29, 2006
Who would have thought that Barney Frank rep from Massachusettes would be the only same person in the House of Representatives. Below is a transcript of him on the floor regarding the FBI and House investigations. It really pissed me off that Hastert can sit by while this administration tramples all our civil liberties but cry when a member's office is searched with a warrant. I really hope this blows up in his face and he ends up on the receiving end of an investigation. If there was a warrant, go right ahead and search, no rep or senator is above the law. The law is the law and if I have to live by it so do you. As for rep Jefferson, he better get out and explain how $90,000 was found in his freezer, otherwise I say kick him out, I don't care if he is a dem or not...........................................
Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Madam Speaker, I disagree with the bipartisan House leadership criticism of the FBI's search of a Member's office. I know nothing specifically about the case, except that the uncontroverted public evidence did seem to justify the issuance of a warrant.
What we now have is a Congressional leadership, the Republican part of which has said it is okay for law enforcement to engage in warrantless searches of the average citizen, now objecting when a search, pursuant to a validly issued warrant, is conducted of a Member of Congress.
I understand that the speech and debate clause is in the Constitution. It is there because Queen Elizabeth I and King James I were disrespectful of Parliament. It ought to be, in my judgment, construed narrowly. It should not be in any way interpreted as meaning that we as Members of Congress have legal protections superior to those of the average citizen.
So I think it was a grave error to have criticized the FBI. I think what they did, they ought to be able to do in every case where they can get a warrant from a judge. I think, in particular, for the leadership of this House, which has stood idly by while this administration has ignored the rights of citizens, to then say we have special rights as Members of Congress is wholly inappropriate.
Posted by mardenhill 5/29/2006 03:22:00 PM
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