[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 7]
[House]
[Pages 10416-10421]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              {time}  2015
                                AMNESTY

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the Speaker's announced policy of 
January 3, 2013, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Gohmert) is recognized 
for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader.
  Mr. GOHMERT. Mr. Speaker, I want to express my appreciation to the 
Appropriations Committee for the appropriations process. I think we are 
all better when we have open amendments and have a chance to have 
everybody have input. It is a nasty process, but it is a good way to do 
it.
  Input is important, because when you don't listen to proper input, 
you can end up having a judgment, as did the Pelletier case where a 
juvenile court judge in Massachusetts took away custody from her 
parents, and finally a victory yesterday as the court, Judge Joseph 
Johnston, wrote in his ruling:

       Effective Wednesday, June 18, 2014, this care and 
     protection petition is dismissed and custody of Justina is 
     returned to her parents, Lou and Linda Pelletier.

  His first statement there is:

       I find that the parties have shown credible evidence that 
     circumstances have changed since the adjudication on December 
     20, 2013, that Justina is a child in care and protection 
     pursuant to G.L. c. 199, 24-26.

  Clearly, the only thing that had changed was not credible evidence. 
It was a judge who finally did his job, which was not to take parents' 
kids away from them.
  It reminded me of comments made by a daycare director in the Soviet 
Union back when I was an exchange student during college days. The 
daycare director was bragging that the children belonged to the state, 
that parents are only temporary caregivers that serve at the whim of--
she didn't say ``whim''--but basically at the discretion of the 
government.
  Back then, in the Soviet Union, if you ever told your child anything 
negative about the Soviet Union--the Soviet Government, Soviet 
leaders--and they found out, they would whisk in, take your child away, 
and as the director said, give them to more deserving parents.
  It appears that is really what happened in the Pelletier case. Some 
bureaucrats refused to consider all of the evidence as they should have 
and decided that they would play God for a while and give custody of 
this poor child to the State instead of her parents who gave every 
indication of loving her and caring about her, trying to do the right 
thing for her. Instead, the State caused great damage. Unfortunately, 
that happens too often in many different areas when the State thinks 
they know better than the people personally involved.
  What gets even worse is when you have a Federal administration that 
believes they know better than the law, that they don't have to follow 
the law because they are better than the law, which would make them 
right on par with Chavez in Venezuela or pick out the dictator. They 
are right there, because they know so much better than anybody else in 
the country. That is why they are called dictators.
  One of the most shocking things about the lawlessness of this 
administration is that they could have spokespeople with straight faces 
come out and say: We really don't know what is causing this wave of 
humanitarian crises on the border. We just really don't understand why 
this wave is coming now.
  Well, all they have to do is review some of the reports from Border 
Patrolmen, ICE agents--particularly the Border Patrolmen who have been 
interviewing these kids, especially the older ones, 15, 16, 17: Why did 
you come to the United States illegally now? And the Border Patrol 
reports so many of the children just say basically the same thing: It 
is because of your new law that is going to let us come and stay 
legally. It is the new law that we get amnesty, that all we have to do 
is come.
  It is incredible the humanitarian crisis that this administration has 
caused. There is some blame to go around for Republicans as well, that 
have entered into this discussion about providing amnesty, providing 
legal status when, if they would simply listen to the people in the 
field on the border and understand the trauma that they have been going 
through trying to protect this country, they would find out, as Chris 
Crane has said before, he said again yesterday, when people in 
Washington talk about amnesty or legal status, we see a massive influx 
of people coming because they want to get here for the legal status, 
the amnesty. That is why it is so critical that we not talk about any 
kind of legal status or amnesty being awarded to anyone, that we wait 
until we have a President, hopefully a change in this President's heart 
so he will start enforcing the law and start faithfully executing the 
laws of the country.
  It is unconstitutional for anyone in the United States, including the 
President, to say: I don't like the law the way it is. Congress hasn't 
changed it, so here's the new law.
  One rather shocking thing is when the President said, you know, that 
Congress hadn't fixed it so here is the new law on who is going to be 
allowed to stay and be given legal status that we are not going to 
throw out. Here is the new law; here are the new requirements.
  I couldn't believe conservative news media, liberal news media, they 
are all reporting the same thing. Gee, here is the new law. Here are 
the new requirements that the President just pronounced into law.
  Fortunately, there are many levelheaded folks that understand that we 
are supposed to act within a Constitution, who pointed out you can't 
just stand up and say, ``Here's the new law.'' You actually have to 
have it pass through Congress. Yeah, it is a tough thing to do, and 
that is exactly what the Founders intended, because they knew the 
easier it was to pass laws, the quicker Americans would lose their 
liberty.
  Ever since the 17th Amendment was ratified, the States lost their 
check and balance over the Federal Government not usurping the power 
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have incorrectly reported that I want to repeal the 17th Amendment, go 
back to selecting Senators by State legislatures making the selection. 
There were some abuses there. Some legislators figured out how to game 
the system through the Senators they selected. All you would have to do 
is say: All right. We are going to select you to be our Senator, but 
here is our laundry list of things that we want.
  So it was susceptible to being abused as well, but the point should 
not be lost that there has to be a way for States to regain the check 
and balance over the Federal Government usurpation of rights of the 
various States, the powers of the State.
  If the States still had the check and balance over the Federal 
Government, you wouldn't see a report like John Roberts of FoxNews 
reported this week. ``Wave of humanity,'' he reports: ``Border Patrol 
overwhelmed by flow of illegal immigrants.'' He says:

       At daybreak in this border town, two women from Guatemala--
     one with a small child strapped to her back--wait patiently 
     on the levy overlooking the Rio Grande.
       They have been instructed by the ``coyote'' who ferried 
     them across the river for an exorbitant fee--as much as 
     $1,000--to simply wait for the Border Patrol to pick them up. 
     After processing, they will likely be given a notice to 
     appear before an immigration judge and a bus ticket to 
     wherever in America they may have friends or relatives.
       That's the way it goes, day in and day out, in what has 
     become ground zero of the latest immigration crisis. 
     Thousands upon thousands of people from Central America 
     exploiting the porous border of the Rio Grande Valley to 
     enter the United States.

  To quote:

       ``If we don't send the message that they can't just come in 
     and stay here, it's gonna continue, this wave of humanity,'' 
     said Texas Representative Henry Cuellar. Cuellar is a 
     Democrat, but an outspoken critic of how President Obama has 
     handled this crisis.

  Another story from Brandon Darby from Breitbart reports:

       Vice President Moran invoked the case of Robert Rosas, a 
     Border Patrol agent who was ambushed by illegal immigrants in 
     2009 in southern California. In that instance, Agent Rosas 
     was dispatched alone to check on a sensor activation. 
     Breitbart News has covered that issue extensively and 
     revealed that one of the men involved had been on supervised 
     release from U.S. authorities. The illegal immigrants wanted 
     Agent Rosas's night-vision equipment, so they lured, trapped, 
     and murdered him, according to the U.S. Attorney's office. 
     ``A repeat occurrence of an incident like this is what we 
     fear, especially now without full staffing in the field,'' 
     said Vice President Moran.

  Shawn Moran is vice president of the National Border Patrol Council, 
the NBPC. He stated:

       ``The administration was already putting budgets before 
     securing the border. Our jobs are immensely dangerous as we 
     interrupt cartel activity on U.S. soil. Their border security 
     policy failures have already reduced the number of agents 
     securing the border, and now they have fewer agents out there 
     to back each other up. The lives of Border Patrol agents 
     should not be pawns in the political games of Washington, 
     D.C., and this administration is literally risking our 
     lives.''

  The loss of Agent Rosas is an example of what happens when an 
administration is lawless. It breeds more lawlessness, and that is 
exactly what we have now on our United States border in the south. The 
story says:

       Though Border Patrol are often heavily grouped in urban 
     areas along the U.S.-Mexican border, they are often alone in 
     desolate rural areas--and most of the U.S.-Mexico border is 
     desolate.

  It is really tragic what is happening, and this administration wrings 
its hands--well, some do. Some play golf. Some wring their hands. Some 
make sure they have got a good grip on their 7 iron, but others wring 
their hands about the losses of life and the tragedies occurring on our 
U.S.-Mexico border.
  A story from the LA Times, Molly Hennessy-Fisk:

       The call went out on Border Patrol radios just before 
     sundown one day this week: 31 immigrants spotted illegally 
     crossing the Rio Grande on a raft.
       No sooner had the migrants been found hiding in the 
     mesquite brush then another report came in: a woman and boy 
     were walking up riverbank.
       The Rio Grande Valley has become ground zero for an 
     unprecedented surge in families and unaccompanied children 
     flooding across the Southwest border, creating what the Obama 
     administration is calling a humanitarian crisis as border 
     officials struggle to accommodate new detainees.

                              {time}  2030

       Largely from Central America, they are now arriving at a 
     rate of 35,000 a month. Anzalduas Park, a 96-acre expanse of 
     close-cropped fields and woodland that sits on a southern 
     bend of the river, has turned from an idyllic family 
     recreation area into a high-traffic zone for illegal 
     migration. The number of children and teenagers traveling 
     alone from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador is expected 
     to reach up to 90,000 across the southwest border by the end 
     of the year.

  This story was written June 13. We have information that that number 
hit 60,000 by May, and originally 60,000 was expected to be the top. So 
I think it would be a good estimate to expect if we got more than 
60,000 and they are coming faster and faster, and that 60,000 was hit 
by early May or the 1st of May, I think you can pretty well count on 
more than 90,000, perhaps more than 120,000, and that is this year.
  As these teenagers and others are given legal status, then their 
parents, they will be able to be anchors to bring other family members 
in with them. So you are talking about just in 1 year adding maybe 1 
million people when you start looking at all the other ways people are 
coming in.
  We bring in over 1 million people with visas legally every year. No 
other country in the world does that. Countries a number of times our 
size don't allow that many visas. We do because we are an open country. 
But we understand there is an obligation. You have to maintain some 
kind of semblance of order.
  At a time when you have got tens of thousands and hundreds of 
thousands of people coming in illegally, and you don't know who they 
are, you have got drug cartels that are taking advantage of that, as 
ICE and Border Patrol are pointing out. They are taking advantage of 
it, they are moving more drugs than ever. As some have said this week, 
we--Border Patrol, ICE agents--were changing diapers while they are 
stepping up the number of drugs they are bringing in.
  So how is this all happening? It comes back to the administration. If 
you have an administration that is lawless and refuses to enforce the 
law, as this administration has, you are going to reap the whirlwind.
  There is another story from U.S. News, from Hidalgo County, ``Migrant 
Surge Jams Border'':

       Sergeant Dan Broyles once had to battle through the spiky 
     thicket of border vegetation here to find an immigrant 
     illegally sneaking into the country.
       But all he had to do on a recent day was to wait in plain 
     sight along a dirt road, as a group of Salvadoran migrants, 
     including a 7-year-old girl with a pink Hello Kitty backpack, 
     deliberately walked up and surrendered to him a mile north of 
     the Rio Grande.
       ``They're all giving up,'' said Sergeant Broyles, 51-years-
     old, a Hidalgo County Constable's official whose main 
     responsibility is supposed to be serving court papers. As he 
     waited for Border Patrol agents to pick up the migrants, 
     another group was coming up behind them.

  And on and on and on it goes.
  It is what happens when an administration refuses to enforce the law, 
refuses to follow the law themselves. When you have an Attorney General 
that obfuscates and is complicit in the hiding of evidence and keeping 
evidence secret of what happened with a couple of thousand guns being 
forced by the government to be sold to people that never should have 
gotten them in the operation called ``Fast and Furious.'' We have known 
about it for a number of years, but we have always felt like even in 
the John Mitchell Department of Justice, even when there was illegality 
somewhere, even at the top with the Attorney General, that there would 
be good people in the Department of Justice that would stand up and 
say: This is wrong, you are going to destroy our country because we are 
supposed to be the department that ensures justice across the country.
  It seems like what we are doing here in the DOJ is going after 
political enemies of the administration instead of being fair across 
the board. The rest of the world notices these things, and they notice 
that we are not being fair and just and righteous, as we once were. All 
the time this humanitarian crisis, illegal immigrants flooding into

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the country from our south, and the administration saying: We don't 
know why this is happening; why are they rushing here?
  Well, then here is a story this week:

       The White House to honor young illegal immigrants. The 
     White House will honor 10 young adults on Tuesday who came 
     into the United States illegally and qualified for the 
     President's program to defer deportation actions.

  I might remind, Mr. Speaker, that this is the President's program 
where he decided to change the law unilaterally, without Congress, to 
say he didn't like the existing law, so he pronounced new law into 
existence.
  The story from Rebecca Shabad says:

       Each person has qualified for the government's Deferred 
     Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which delays removal 
     proceedings against them as long as they meet certain 
     guidelines.
       They were honored as ``Champions of Change.''

  So the White House is glorifying people that came in illegally and 
then is shocked that more people want to come in and be glorified for 
coming in illegally.
  There is another story from Reuters of New York:

       A New York lawmaker wants to grant many of the rights of 
     citizenship to millions of illegal immigrants and noncitizen 
     residents, including the right to vote in local and State 
     elections, under a bill introduced on Monday.

  So let's give benefits, let's give a place to stay, let's give food, 
let's give legal counsel, as this administration is doing all, and 
let's give them incentives. Let's give them the right to vote so that 
they can vote for more people to come in illegally. Because once you 
give the right to vote to people who have not respected the law, and 
you give them that right to vote before they can be educated on the 
importance and the responsibility of maintaining a republic--madam, if 
you can keep it--you are going to lose that republic, you are going to 
lose the ability to have a government of the people, by the people, and 
for the people. It becomes lawless. Might makes right.
  A story from Breitbart this week:
  Pro-Bono Lawyers: Most Unaccompanied Border Children Eligible for 
Amnesty.
  A story by Sylvia Longmire:

       Under the authority of the Homeland Security Act, the 
     federal government transfers custody of illegal immigrant 
     children who are apprehended alone at our borders to the 
     Department of Health and Human Service's Office of Refugee 
     Resettlement. Their primary goal is to reunite them with a 
     family member or legal guardian already here in the U.S.

  So, as U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen has said, now we are engaging 
in human trafficking.
  This is a good lesson in how you lose a great nation because you 
refuse to enforce your laws. This country has never had perfect laws, 
never will have perfect laws. They are made by man. But the thing we 
are supposed to internally perpetually strive for is making them better 
and better.
  You don't have to study all that much history to understand that no 
nation ever lasts forever. They never have, they never will, not in 
this life.
  So the question is: How long are you able to sustain a great nation? 
Some have gone for hundreds and hundreds of years. The United States 
has never been, will never be, an empire like the Greek or Roman empire 
or the British empire because the United States has never been 
imperialistic.
  When we go in and fight for freedom, Americans die for freedom, 
people still speak their same language, still have their same currency. 
We help them to set up a government. Well, it is time we quit nation-
building.
  Now Iraq. So many of us warned about this, and after my last visit to 
Iraq, Dana Rohrabacher and I pointed out problems to Prime Minister al-
Maliki, and he didn't like it. We each pointed out promises that were 
made and had been broken, and he didn't like it. Even 3 or 4 years ago, 
it was very clear to us that Maliki was either going to totally sell 
out to the Iranians, who had been killing Americans who were there, or 
he would get knocked off, just like in Afghanistan. President Karzai is 
either going to have to sell out to the Taliban or he is going to be 
killed, or he can take money that people say he has not actually 
embezzled that maybe some of his family has, take off with the money 
and try to live on that somewhere outside of Afghanistan.
  We don't have to nation-build. We should just make it clear to a 
country: Look, you can pick whatever government you want, but when you 
are a threat to us and you announce you want to destroy us as the great 
Satan, destroy Israel as the little Satan, and you are working on the 
bomb that will do that, then we need to take your government out. We 
need to take out all of your areas where you are working on nuclear 
weapons and keep bombing until we have satisfactorily done that, and 
then let the nation pick whatever government they want. But if it is 
one that wants to come after us again, as the Khomeini administration 
has, then we need to take them out too.
  The problem is this administration has been floating ideas of working 
with Iran, which had been killing American soldiers the entire time 
that U.S. soldiers were in Iraq, providing IEDs, providing weapons, 
providing the means and people to help kill Americans, and which has 
made clear they want to wipe our country off the map, wipe Israel off 
the map, and this administration has people who say: Let's work with 
Iran to control Iraq.
  That is sheer insanity. Who is thinking of these things? Allies of 
the United States all over the world are asking: Are we the next ally 
to be thrown away as the United States continues to embrace its enemies 
and throw away its friends?
  Take your pick of the way nations have been lost over time, great 
nations have lost what freedom they had, what self-control they had. 
Look at the way they have been lost. Some have lost it internally. They 
spent too much money on themselves, overspent, they lost the country, 
became a bankrupt nation. Or sometimes they let their defense down and 
people came in and overwhelmed the nation. Or sometimes they were 
attacked by armies who destroyed their power, their government. 
Everywhere you turn, it appears we are taking the steps--this 
administration and Congress is not doing enough yet to stop them--but 
it appears the administration repeatedly is taking all of those roads 
that lead to destruction.

                              {time}  2045

  You cannot keep punishing your friends, rewarding your enemies. You 
cannot keep encouraging your enemies and allowing them to develop 
weapons that will destroy you. You cannot leave your borders open when 
people have made clear: We are bringing drugs in, and we are coming in 
with weapons now. We are taking over gangs in your cities. We are going 
to destroy you from within.
  You can't keep doing that. Then, all that time, we are cutting 
spending on our defense to keep evil out. We are still overspending.
  Sure, we have given some and helped wonderful companies like Solyndra 
and paid $600 million or so for a Web site for ObamaCare and friends of 
the administration when we are told: gee, you could have done a better 
Web site for $4 million.
  Sure, we have spent it on all kinds of things like that, but the 
spending of future generations' money has to stop because you can lose 
the country just in that way as well.
  Just when you think the lawlessness of the administration could not 
get any worse--just when you think, wow, it is absolutely incredible--
it is very clear now that this administration's Internal Revenue 
Service was using IRS laws to persecute political opponents of the 
administration, so they could not be effective and do again in 2012 
what they did in 2010.
  Guess what? It worked. At first, we were told: No, they were going 
after liberal groups and conservative groups the same way.
  Well, now, we know that is not true. They were going after 
conservative groups, and when any administration has IRS officials that 
send out questions asking about the content of your prayers, it is time 
to start firing people right and left.
  Since that hasn't happened, it tells you that there is a disease 
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through this administration, a cancer that needs to be stopped.
  We know that the Attorney General himself is in contempt of Congress, 
and we know that he sat there and told me that I was not to ever think 
it was a big deal for him to be found in contempt, when he knew that a 
year before he told ABC it wasn't a big deal to him because he didn't 
have any respect for people in Congress that voted to hold him in 
contempt. He couldn't even get his story right when he was testifying 
before Congress.
  He needs to go. Since the administration has refused to move out an 
Attorney General who has repeatedly failed to do his job, has 
repeatedly failed to do justice, has repeatedly allowed the law to be 
used to go after political enemies while protecting political friends, 
while they have refused to go after people who believe that this 
country ought to be part of a great radical Islamist caliphate--and we 
protect those people.
  Not only do we protect them, according to Egyptian periodicals that 
were controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood, they bragged about the 
people in this administration who were in positions of power, 
amazingly--maybe it shouldn't be that amazing--but eventually, truth 
does have a way of coming forward.
  Yes, we have the IRS, at this point, losing emails. Of course, that 
triggered ideas in my head because there are criminals laws about 
obstructing Congress. There are criminal laws about obstructing 
investigations. There are criminal laws about IRS agents abusing their 
positions.
  So anyone anywhere in the administration that is in any way assisted 
or encouraged in any way the losing or the reported loss of emails--
this active coverup that is going on--they committed a crime, and it 
isn't just a 6-month statute of limitations, and they should be 
worried.
  So the IRS, despite the laws regarding redundancy, despite the 
requirements that they are to keep records, they haven't done so.
  There was a great letter that was sent by an attorney for True the 
Vote, one of the persecuted conservative groups. Cleta Mitchell, the 
attorney, writes to the counsel for the IRS and says:

       As you know, True the Vote filed its lawsuit in the above-
     referenced matter on May 21, 2013. By the time True the Vote 
     filed its suit, the Internal Revenue Service and its 
     employees and officials were on notice of the commencement of 
     several congressional investigations.
       The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the 
     House Committee on Ways and Means, and the Senate Finance 
     Committee have each provided notice to the IRS of their 
     ongoing investigations into the IRS and, specifically, 
     defendant Lois Lerner and her activities related to the 
     issues involved in the True the Vote litigation for over a 
     year now.
       Late Friday, the IRS apparently advised the Ways and Means 
     Committee that the IRS has ``lost'' Lois Lerner's hard drive, 
     which includes thousands of Defendant Lerner's email records.
       However, several statutes and regulations require that the 
     records be accessible by the committees and, in turn, must be 
     preserved and made available to True the Vote in the event of 
     discovery in the pending litigation.
       Those statutes include the Federal Records Act, Internal 
     Revenue Manual section 1.15.6.6, IRS Document 12829, 36 CFR 
     1230, and 36 CFR 1222.12.
       Under those records retention regulations and the Federal 
     Records Act generally, the IRS is required to preserve emails 
     or otherwise contemporaneously transmit records for 
     preservation.
       Therefore, the failure for the IRS to preserve and provide 
     these records to the committees would evidence further 
     violations of numerous records retention statutes and 
     regulations or obstruction of Congress.
       Federal courts have held, in the context of trial, that the 
     bad faith destruction of evidence relevant to proof of an 
     issue gives rise to an inference that production of the 
     evidence would have been unfavorable to the party responsible 
     for its destruction.

  It then cites a Federal case. That is called the doctrine of 
spoliation.

       The fact that the IRS is statutorily required to preserve 
     these records, yet nevertheless publicly claimed that they 
     have been ``lost'' appears to be evidence of bad faith.
       18 USC 1505 makes it a Federal crime to obstruct 
     congressional proceedings and covers obstructive acts made 
     during the course of a congressional investigation, even 
     without official committee sanction.

  It cites authority for that proposition.

       Further, by letters dated September 17, 2013, True the Vote 
     provided notice to counsel for the individual IRS defendants 
     in this litigation. The individual defendants are: Steven 
     Grodnitzky, Lois Lerner, Steven Miller, Holly Paz, Michael 
     Seto, Douglas Shulman, Cindy Thomas, William Wilkins, Susan 
     Maloney, Ronald Bell, Janine L. Estes, and Faye Ng.
       True the Vote's September 17, 2013, correspondence reminded 
     you and your clients of the individual defendants' obligation 
     ``not to destroy, conceal, or alter any paper or electronic 
     files, other data generated by and/or stored on your clients' 
     computer systems and storage media, e.g., hard disks, floppy 
     disks, backup tapes, or any other electronic data, such as 
     voice mail.''
       We identified the scope as encompassing both the personal 
     and professional or business capacity of your clients and 
     involving data ``generated or created on or after July 15, 
     2010.'' See attached letters to Ms. Benitez and Messrs. 
     Lamken and Shur.
       As the D.C. District Court has found, ``a party has a duty 
     `to preserve potentially relevant evidence . . . '' once that 
     party anticipates litigation.'''''

  It cites the authority for that.

       In fact, ``that obligation `runs first to counsel, who has 
     a duty to advise his client of the type of information 
     potentially relevant to the lawsuit and of the necessity of 
     preventing its destruction.''' It ``also extends to the 
     managers of a corporate party, who `are responsible for 
     conveying to their employees the requirements for preserving 
     evidence.'''
       By letter dated September 25, Ms. Benitez acknowledged 
     receipt of our ``litigation hold'' letter and vociferously 
     objected to our having the temerity to send such a letter, 
     ``rejecting'' our characterization of documents to be 
     preserved.
       Indeed, Ms. Benitez, you indicated that you took great 
     offense at having been put on notice to preserve and maintain 
     documents related to the issue of this litigation.
       You further advised, however, that you would continue to 
     advise ``your clients as appropriate and, as always, will 
     abide by my legal and ethical obligations.''
       The public reports released late on Friday, June 13, 2014, 
     stated the IRS now claims to have ``lost'' the emails of 
     defendant Lois Lerner.

  I have got to inject. Ms. Benitez apparently wasn't being honest. She 
apparently didn't know how to properly advise her clients and properly 
abide by the legal and ethical obligations that she had.
  This letter goes on:

       These reports are particularly astonishing in light of your 
     representations, Ms. Benitez, that you would ``advise your 
     clients, as appropriate, and would abide by your legal and 
     ethical obligations.''
       The ``lost'' emails, from press reports, appear to cover a 
     time period from January 2009 to April 2011.
       We are deeply troubled by this news and are concerned about 
     the spoliation of information and documents pertaining to 
     this case and the apparent failure on your part to, a, 
     protect and preserve all potentially relevant information 
     and, b, to advise us of such failure and spoliation when you 
     first learned of it.
       We are even more concerned after receiving your assurances 
     that you would ``abide by your legal and ethical 
     obligations.''
       Accordingly, we hereby request that you advise us of the 
     following.

  Then it goes on with demands. They are quite reasonable.
  It says:

       In addition to seeking responses to the questions in this 
     letter, we also seek your consent to immediately allow a 
     computer forensics expert selected by True the Vote to 
     examine the computers that is or are purportedly the source 
     of Ms. Lerner's ``lost'' emails, including cloning the hard 
     drives, and to attempt to restore what was supposedly 
     ``lost'' and to seek to restore any and all ``lost'' evidence 
     pertinent to this litigation.
       We also seek access to all computers, both official and 
     personal, used by any and all of the defendants from and 
     after July 1, 2010, in order to ensure preservation of the 
     documents of all defendants in this action.
       We wish to resolve our concerns amicably; but, absent your 
     consent, we will file such motions as deemed necessary and 
     appropriately asking the court to require that you respond to 
     the questions contained in this letter and to permit such 
     forensic examination described herein and for such other 
     relief as may be appropriate for this egregious breach of 
     legal authority and professional ethics.

  Anyway, the judge in that case needs to go ahead and order all kinds 
of sanctions against the Internal Revenue Service. It needs to order 
all kinds of sanctions against the attorneys and the employees involved 
in that litigation who have failed to produce what was required.

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  The judge needs to make clear that justice, including from our own 
so-called Justice Department, will not permit this kind of lawlessness. 
It is outrageous. It is simply outrageous.

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  Just when you think the ignoring of the safety of American citizens 
couldn't get much worse by this administration, they brag that they are 
bringing a known terrorist to New York City. Nobody on the left seems 
to be terribly bothered by the fact that they say they are putting him 
on a slow ship to the U.S. when they should have put him on a fast 
plane to Guantanamo Bay. It is better kept than many prisons I have 
been to that actually meet the requirements of the law, including the 
requirements of liberal judges. It is better than so many prisons.
  Yes, they get to play soccer, and when they continue to throw feces 
or urine on our guards, then they do lose some of their movie time 
watching. When I was down there a couple of times, somebody lost movie 
privileges because he figured out a way to throw urine or feces on 
guards. There actually was a guard who yelled back at the person who 
threw feces on him, and he ended up being punished, I was told, by 
Article 15 because you are not allowed to respond when a terrorist 
throws feces or urine on you. They will take care of the adequate 
punishment, and they think it is enough to take away some of their 
movie watching time or television watching time or to maybe take away 
some of the time they get to be outside, playing soccer.
  They don't need to be in the United States if they have committed an 
act of war against the United States, and the evidence seems to 
indicate clearly that this defendant had. I am very pleased and I 
applaud the administration for finally picking up this guy who was so 
available to international media that they could get interviews with 
him. Yet the administration didn't want to pick him up. If they had, 
they could have gotten him at any time. I guess, last year, they picked 
up this terrible terrorist in Libya, and when I was over there, the 
Libyans said his address had been on the Internet for a year. The U.S. 
could have gotten him any time they wanted to--they knew where he 
lived--but the administration finally decided to do something about it, 
so they did.
  This is an article from CBS News: ``Benghazi Suspect Expected to Face 
Criminal Charges in D.C. Federal Court.'' When Americans say someone 
who commits an act of war against the United States should be brought 
to a Federal district court because it is his constitutional right, it 
tells you immediately they don't know the Constitution because, under 
the Constitution, there isn't even a U.S. District Court created. How 
can somebody have a right to a United States district court under our 
Constitution when there is no U.S. district court created in our 
Constitution?
  As David Guinn used to say, who was my old constitutional law 
professor, there is only one court created in the entire Constitution. 
That is the Supreme Court. Every other Federal court in America owes 
its existence and jurisdiction to the United States Congress. As Bill 
Cosby said his father used to say, ``I brought you in this world, and I 
can take you out.'' The Congress brought these courts into this world. 
We can take them out of this world. Nobody has a constitutional right 
to a U.S. district court. If you commit an act of war, you have got a 
right to a tribunal if we so choose, and we have. You may have a right 
to a military court.
  I don't understand, Mr. Speaker, why in the world liberals in the 
United States think that someone who commits an act of war against the 
United States should have more constitutional rights than our United 
States military, and this administration thinks one does. How do you 
know? Look at what they are doing to our military. Go talk to some of 
our military members who have been put in prison. They say: We believed 
our lives were in jeopardy, that we were in immediate danger of death 
or of serious bodily injury, so we defended ourselves.
  You shouldn't have because you hit a civilian or you hit somebody 
else or you hit somebody who was messing with an IED, but that didn't 
mean that he actually planted it.
  There are all kinds of people we have in prison now who are serving 
our United States military, and they were not given near the rights 
that this person--this radical Islamist who wants to destroy America--
is now being told he is going to get.
  So they say they are questioning him, but the Federal Government said 
that about the last suspect they arrested and put on a slow boat to the 
U.S., and there were people here who were saying this is great, that 
this may be the one guy they say they wouldn't mind having waterboarded 
in order to get all of the information out of him they could.
  Then we hear from an international arms dealer who says: Yes, I was 
the one who negotiated the arms deal for the U.S. State Department. 
They wanted to get arms to Libyan rebels, and I proposed just their 
buying them, and then I would get them to the rebels. But they said: 
No, no, no. We don't want it that direct. So he says he bought the 
weapons for the State Department and got them to Qatar and then, from 
Qatar, got them to the rebels who were infused with al Qaeda rebels.
  Anyway, the international arms dealer sent me a statement saying he 
wanted to testify before Congress because the people he worked with who 
were representing the U.S. Government and others were either dead or 
they were on a boat somewhere so that nobody could talk to them. He 
figured, if he could get his story out before Congress, then maybe 
there wouldn't be any need to kill him or to stick him on a boat 
somewhere so he couldn't talk. That was what the statement of the 
international arms dealer has been--the statement that was sent to me--
and yet they want to bring here someone they say they are certain 
committed an act of war against the United States.
  I heard on the news today that, gee, they have had evidence of this 
al-Shabaab involvement since the event happened. Since the event 
happened? That would mean all of the time that Secretary Clinton was 
out there--saying it was the video and looking family members of the 
deceased of Benghazi in the eye and saying: We are going to get the guy 
who did the video--she knew that the evidence was nothing of the sort, 
that the video had nothing to do with the loss of these four American 
lives.
  There is no right of someone who commits an act of war against the 
United States to get an immediate trial. He is not entitled under our 
Constitution to get a speedy trial. He is not under our Constitution 
entitled to get a trial before a U.S. district court. He is entitled 
under the current law to go to Guantanamo Bay--where no one has ever 
been waterboarded by the way--and have a trial in that courtroom. I 
went through it, and I was impressed at how well equipped it was for 
trying terrorists, even to the extent of having bulletproof glass for 
the gallery.
  There could be all kinds of horrible scenarios to arise out of this 
administration's insistence on bringing an enemy combatant--a warrior 
against the United States--who should be considered either an enemy 
combatant or a prisoner of war. He shouldn't be brought. There are too 
many bad things that can happen. New York has suffered enough.
  I do want to finish with this one article, published this week by 
Breitbart and written by Kerry Picket. I have talked for some time 
about a Texan named Mohamed Elibiary. I questioned our Secretary of 
Homeland Security about her giving him a secret security clearance when 
he clearly should not have met any of the requirements to get such a 
clearance. We knew that he had downloaded two documents from using his 
secret classification. According to reporter Patrick Poole, not only 
did he download them, but he offered them to national media for 
publication.
  Mr. Elibiary has gotten so cocky now because I have been talking 
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for a number of years. The administration has not bothered to revoke 
his secret classification, and he continues to be one of the top 
advisers to Homeland Security. It is our homeland security for heaven's 
sake, and he sends out this tweet on June 13 that says:

       Kind of comical watching pundits on some U.S. TV channels 
     freak out about an ISIS caliphate. Easy, folks. Take deep 
     breaths and relax.

  Kerry Picket reports:

       Mohamed Elibiary, a member on the Obama administration's 
     Homeland Security Advisory Council, is at the center of a 
     controversy involving allegations that former DHS Secretary 
     Janet Napolitano gave him secret clearance, which led to his 
     downloading classified information. According to 
     Representative Louie Gohmert, Elibiary later shopped that 
     classified material around to a reporter.
       Elibiary, a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood, who 
     regularly goes after the Sisi-led Egyptian Government, is 
     also an active participant on Twitter, and mocked the ``freak 
     out'' by U.S. talking heads discussing the terrorist 
     activities relating to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, 
     ISIS.

  So Elibiary says that. He thinks it is comical watching pundits freak 
out over the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria's caliphate.
  He goes on in another tweet in response to a tweet back that says:

       So no need to be outraged?

  He says:

       As I've said before, inevitable that caliphate returns. 
     Choice only whether we support an EU-like Muslim Union vision 
     or not.

  So Mr. Elibiary, who is a top adviser in the United States of America 
Homeland Security Department, is saying it is inevitable that we have 
an Islamic caliphate over the United States. It is just whether or not 
we are going to embrace a European Union-style caliphate that is coming 
or something else.
  Even when he is questioned again by another tweet, in talking about 
an Islamic caliphate, he says:

       The U.S. is heading in the direction. Bush created the 
     OIC--Organization of Islamic Council--Special Envoy.

  So that took us a little bit down the road to being part of the 
caliphate. Then he says:

       Obama removed the discriminatory engagement policy toward 
     the Muslim Brotherhood.

  That is the purging of documents I have been talking about for years. 
This administration, according to their Homeland Security adviser here, 
has been moving toward being part of a caliphate for years. Get used to 
it. He finds it comical that pundits are even worried about it.
  With the lawlessness that is occurring in the United States and 
inside our Justice Department and in this administration in numerous 
places--in the IRS, on our border--it is time for Americans to wake up, 
and it is time for Americans to let their Congressmen and Senators know 
we have had enough lawlessness. You guys have got to hold the Attorney 
General and the President accountable. Once enough people wake up and 
demand it, they will get it because the adage remains true: democracy 
ensures a people get a government no better than they deserve.
  With that, I yield back the balance of my time.

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