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Irish_Dem

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5. FB you seem to be contradicting yourself.

Reply to FBaggins (Reply #1)

Fri Jun 27, 2025, 06:03 AM

Jun 27

You say that "Congress has oversight authority and can delegate it to committees (which can send individual members of Congress and/or their staff) [to oversee ICE detention facilities.]."

Then you go on at length about how congress has no power or rights in this matter.

ETA: If the US Congress sits on its hands while American citizens and others on US soil
are kidnapped by masked men off the streets and sent to detention camps without due
process and held indefinitely they are guilty of malpractice.

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I'm afraid that's a nonstarter FBaggins Jun 27 #1

Goldman and Nadler are on the committee looking into this which is why they decided to go Rhiannon12866 Jun 27 #2

He does know... they all know FBaggins Jun 27 #3

Thanks! I once saw Gym Jordan dismiss freshman Dan Goldman and my first thought was "he's smarter than you" Rhiannon12866 Jun 27 #4

FB you seem to be contradicting yourself. Irish_Dem Jun 27 #5

The distinction is between Congress and members of Congress FBaggins Jun 27 #6

As for your final paragraph- you're absolutely correct FBaggins Jun 27 #7