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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(135,697 posts)
Wed Sep 1, 2021, 02:55 PM Sep 2021

MTG threatened to 'shut down' telecoms companies if they hand over Republicans' phone records to the

January 6 commission

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed on Tuesday that any telecommunications company that complies with a request to hand over Republicans' messages to the January 6 commission would be "shut down."

The House committee is investigating the circumstances surrounding the Capitol riot.

On Friday, the group asked social-media companies to turn over records related to the riot. On Monday, it asked 35 social-media and telecommunications companies to "preserve" records from a list of Republicans in Congress, former President Donald Trump, and Trump's family.

Several Republicans described those requests as a form of authoritarian overreach, a theme that dominated Greene's appearance on Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight" on Tuesday.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/marjorie-taylor-greene-threatened-shut-121049237.html

Who's going to shut them down, you and your beer bellied Rambos?
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MTG threatened to 'shut down' telecoms companies if they hand over Republicans' phone records to the (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2021 OP
Now Is The Time wyn borkins Sep 2021 #1
Looks like someone.is afraid. Texaswitchy Sep 2021 #2
she thinks she has powers that don't exist. spanone Sep 2021 #3
Considering she doesnt sit any committees, you're correct hahaha... Volaris Sep 2021 #8
So was she OK when Trump DOJ subpoenaed Democratic Congress members records mackdaddy Sep 2021 #4
IOKIYAR TheRealNorth Sep 2021 #5
Will she stamp her little feet and hold her breath until she turns blue? gratuitous Sep 2021 #6
There is nothing little about her feet. NameAlreadyTaken Sep 2021 #12
And why is she not arrested for obstruction yet? Marius25 Sep 2021 #7
They don't have to have the power if the companies just roll over and refuse to honor The subpoena Fullduplexxx Sep 2021 #9
The phone companies should kick her off of their networks gulliver Sep 2021 #10
The company presidents... lame54 Sep 2021 #11

wyn borkins

(1,372 posts)
1. Now Is The Time
Wed Sep 1, 2021, 03:03 PM
Sep 2021

For an enterprising young attorney (perhaps just out of law school) to promulgate a pleasant lawsuit against MTG for her threat to obstruct justice by closing a telecommunications business for simply complying with a legal congressional subpoena.

mackdaddy

(1,976 posts)
4. So was she OK when Trump DOJ subpoenaed Democratic Congress members records
Wed Sep 1, 2021, 03:20 PM
Sep 2021

That seems to have evaporated.

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/trump-doj-apple-subpoena-leaks/

Former President Donald Trump’s Justice Department reportedly secretly seized the phone records of Democratic members of Congress, their aides, and family members in an effort to hunt for leaks from stories about Trump’s associates’ ties to Russia.

The explosive story, first reported by the New York Times, details an extraordinary effort by the Trump administration to use the investigative power of the Justice Department to carry out the then-president’s bidding as it sought the sources of politically damaging stories.

The two members of Congress are Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), both of whom were members of the House Intelligence Committee. At least a dozen people’s records were subpoenaed. No charges seem to have resulted.

Investigators reportedly debated closing the case based on lack of evidence and other factors, but following the ouster of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, his successor, William Barr, revived it, the Times reports.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
6. Will she stamp her little feet and hold her breath until she turns blue?
Wed Sep 1, 2021, 04:19 PM
Sep 2021

Someone sounds frightened.

gulliver

(13,985 posts)
10. The phone companies should kick her off of their networks
Wed Sep 1, 2021, 07:33 PM
Sep 2021

Trump too. No voice; no data; no text. Why should a private company carry a single byte of data for someone who threatens them?

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