{"id":274972,"date":"2023-08-22T14:40:39","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T12:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=274972"},"modified":"2023-08-22T14:40:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T12:40:42","slug":"the-big-fed-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=274972","title":{"rendered":"The Big Fed Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From \u00a0CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0William Kovacs<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The eight most disingenuous words used these days by federal agencies are intended to hide their criminal activity: \u201cI can\u2019t answer. The matter is under investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These words are used to obstruct, mislead, delay, and discourage congressional investigations into the legality of Executive Branch activity. In effect, they are saying: \u201cYour question is impertinent, inconvenient, and intolerable. How dare you question anything Executive Branch agencies are doing?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, this simple statement often achieves its goal of obstructing efforts by Congress to obtain information that it and the American people need and deserve to have to ensure \u201cgovernment of, by, and for the people,\u201d instead of the federal bureaucracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Congress may be upset with the response, it is often cowed into accepting the assertion that presidents can protect their people from being investigated even for criminal conduct. However, fortunes and precedents can be reversed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Republicans win the White House with a presidential candidate who sincerely wants to uphold the rule of law, restore justice to the legal system and hold the \u201cDeep State\u201d accountable, that president can make it happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leading Presidential candidates for the Republican nomination have\u00a0promised to fire the FBI director<\/a>\u00a0and clean house at the Department of Justice. If a Republican wins the presidency in November 2024, FBI Director Wray and Attorney General Garland will resign long before they can be fired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, candidates, please, stop pandering. No one will be fired. It\u2019s all pablum \u2013 worthless, insipid, oversimplified assertions, threats, and promises.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suppose a new president truly wants to clean up the deep, dark, corrupt state at the DOJ, FBI, and other federal agencies. In that case, the Republican president need only waive Executive Privilege and issue an executive order declassifying all investigatory materials sought by the current Republican House of Representatives. Let Congress bleed the truth out of those subverting the Constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Executive compliance is simple. When Congress requests documents, the Executive should order them produced. When testimony is sought, provide it without asserting objections. Cooperate with the Republican House to find the truth and restore our\u00a0republican form of government<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the Nixon administration,\u00a0presidents have asserted Executive Privilege<\/a>\u00a0thirty times to block congressional investigations. Presidential assertions included protecting the president\u2019s brother (Billy Carter), girlfriends (Monica Lewinsky), mismanagement of funds (Solyndra), foreign affairs (Benghazi), gun running (Fast and Furious), and tape recordings (Watergate).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democrat and Republican administrations have routinely acted as though providing Congress with requested information concerning an investigation will somehow diminish their manhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finding and eliminating corruption is for the benefit of the nation. Hiding corruption does not assist the president in the faithful execution of the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The DOJ\/FBI\u2019s long-running minuet of never sharing information with congressional committees is a mechanism of deceit, not of protecting the independence and effectiveness of law enforcement, safeguarding informant identities, avoiding pre-trial publicity, or interfering with prosecutorial discretion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Supreme Court has long recognized\u00a0the \u201c\u2026implied power [of Congress] to investigate and to compel the production of information\u201d from the Executive branch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cExecutive Privilege for presidential communications is limited to the quintessential power and nondelegation of Presidential power, and those are the core functions in the Constitution.\u201d It should only be asserted to preserve those core constitutional functions. Claiming it beyond the core constitutional functions is a delaying tactic that often allows illegal conduct to continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As to declassifying all documents related to alleged criminal activity in the Executive branch, no president should ever intentionally or unintentionally cover it up.\u00a0The American Bar Association<\/a>\u00a0has written: \u201cUnder the U.S. Constitution, the president as Commander-in-Chief is given broad powers to classify and declassify such information, often through executive orders.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While there are procedures for declassifying the materials, except for certain materials such as nuclear secrets, a president has almost total control to declassify records by executive order. Presidents at all times have the power to shine sunlight on government corruption. When they choose not to expose corruption, it is an intentional coverup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, since the Nixon administration in the early 1970s, the Executive Branch has\u00a0forced Congress to issue subpoenas<\/a>\u00a0to secure requested documents. Presidents achieve their goal of protecting corruption by requiring years of legal battles to enforce the subpoena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hopefully, there will be a Republican Congress, or at least a Republican House sworn in on January 3, 2025, and on January 20, 2025, a Republican president. Between January 3, 2025, and January 20, 2025, the Republican Congress can prepare the appropriate investigative letters to the incoming president, requesting the information needed to root out corruption, especially in the DOJ and FBI, but also in the EPA and CDC over climate, energy, and Covid fear-mongering, disinformation and censorship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On January 20, when the Republican president enters the White House, his first order of business should be to issue an executive order waiving executive privilege and formally declassifying the documents relating to all congressional investigations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These waivers should encompass all alleged DOJ\/FBI corruption, as described in the Durham, Mueller, and Horowitz Reports, records of payments received by Joe and Hunter Biden and their family members from foreign countries, all matters associated with the development of a two-tier system of justice, efforts by the federal government to force social media companies to manipulate or censor information distributed to the public, and all other matters of high-level DOJ, FBI, EPA, and CDC corruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By taking this approach, the president will tremendously assist the congressional investigation of executive agency misconduct, without investigating the departments he leads. If Congress finds evidence of criminal or unethical activity, it will refer the evidence to new appointees at a DOJ for appropriate prosecution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suppose Executive Branch personnel refuse to testify, or \u201ctake the Fifth\u201d to protect their constitutional right not to be a witness against themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In that case,\u00a0Congress can grant the Use Immunity<\/a>, which compels their testimony but provides immunity to the witness for the new information provided. A witness who refuses to testify after being given Use Immunity can be cited for contempt of Congress and imprisoned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s time for the federal government to get serious about corruption in government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More intriguing and overdue would be having a president who followed the advice humbly presented here. The nation might uncover who is actually running the Deep State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author<\/h2>\n\n\n
\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n


William Kovacs<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bill Kovacs has been involved in the nation\u2019s policymaking process for over four decades. He is an award-winning author for his book, Reform the Kakistocracy: Rule by the Least Able or Least Principled Citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The eight most disingenuous words used these days by federal agencies are intended to hide their criminal activity: \u201cI can\u2019t answer. The matter is under investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":274982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818537,691818937,691818670,691821998],"class_list":{"0":"post-274972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-congress","9":"tag-republicans","10":"tag-supreme-court","11":"tag-white-house","13":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0deepstate-bymattchase.jpg?fit=1160%2C629&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-19x2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":213603,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=213603","url_meta":{"origin":274972,"position":0},"title":"Only One Reason FBI Does Raid on Mar-A-Lago","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"15\/08\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"So, what was at stake in this extremely high-risk action?\u00a0","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-517.png?fit=696%2C554&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-517.png?fit=696%2C554&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-517.png?fit=696%2C554&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":235473,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=235473","url_meta":{"origin":274972,"position":1},"title":"To Understand J6\/21, See Omissions Not in Report","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"21\/12\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The omissions will be more telling about what really happened on January 6, 2021 than what\u2019s actually in the report.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/0Screenshot-2022-12-21-171524.png?fit=934%2C624&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/0Screenshot-2022-12-21-171524.png?fit=934%2C624&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/0Screenshot-2022-12-21-171524.png?fit=934%2C624&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/0Screenshot-2022-12-21-171524.png?fit=934%2C624&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":252054,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=252054","url_meta":{"origin":274972,"position":2},"title":"Policy No Brainer: New Finnish Government Backs Grand Nuclear Power Expansion","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"10\/04\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"No doubt prompted by the suicidal wind and solar obsession playing out across Germany, the incoming Finnish government has announced that the first order of business is expanding Finland\u2019s nuclear power generation capacity as soon as humanly possible.","rel":"","context":"In \"Finnland\"","block_context":{"text":"Finnland","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=finnland"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0fennovoima.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0fennovoima.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0fennovoima.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0fennovoima.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0fennovoima.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":404894,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=404894","url_meta":{"origin":274972,"position":3},"title":"STEVE MILLOY: Rigged Report By National Academies Aims To Thwart Trump Energy Agenda","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"25\/09\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The National Academy of Sciences just released its so-called\u00a0review\u00a0of the Trump EPA\u2019s proposal to rescind the endangerment finding for greenhouse gases. It is every bit the rigged and predetermined outcome\u00a0predicted.","rel":"","context":"In \"COVID crisis\"","block_context":{"text":"COVID crisis","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=covid-crisis"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AQMin_4mmuh8GVU193_HG_5IAqT9N8PhXZVPxRl-X11TtyFqnKHmVickBbNIbeUiakKarsGiFnaLgolpMgfg98jV32HIZkBUkMyG-PnTRfKYzkyl0AvlBKTU9vL7K_eK.jpeg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AQMin_4mmuh8GVU193_HG_5IAqT9N8PhXZVPxRl-X11TtyFqnKHmVickBbNIbeUiakKarsGiFnaLgolpMgfg98jV32HIZkBUkMyG-PnTRfKYzkyl0AvlBKTU9vL7K_eK.jpeg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AQMin_4mmuh8GVU193_HG_5IAqT9N8PhXZVPxRl-X11TtyFqnKHmVickBbNIbeUiakKarsGiFnaLgolpMgfg98jV32HIZkBUkMyG-PnTRfKYzkyl0AvlBKTU9vL7K_eK.jpeg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AQMin_4mmuh8GVU193_HG_5IAqT9N8PhXZVPxRl-X11TtyFqnKHmVickBbNIbeUiakKarsGiFnaLgolpMgfg98jV32HIZkBUkMyG-PnTRfKYzkyl0AvlBKTU9vL7K_eK.jpeg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AQMin_4mmuh8GVU193_HG_5IAqT9N8PhXZVPxRl-X11TtyFqnKHmVickBbNIbeUiakKarsGiFnaLgolpMgfg98jV32HIZkBUkMyG-PnTRfKYzkyl0AvlBKTU9vL7K_eK.jpeg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":431711,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=431711","url_meta":{"origin":274972,"position":4},"title":"SCOTUS Agrees to Hear Case on Colorado Dispute over Climate Change; (it should throw that case and all the others out)","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"16\/03\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"I don\u2019t just write about these things, I try to get something done. Upon learning the news on Feb 23 that the Supreme Court will be adding the effort to hear the concerns about the Suncor Energy Inc. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County situation, I fired off the verbatim\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"\u201cExxonKnew\u201d lawsuits\"","block_context":{"text":"\u201cExxonKnew\u201d lawsuits","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=exxonknew-lawsuits"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0Screenshot-2026-03-16-184855.png?fit=1200%2C599&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0Screenshot-2026-03-16-184855.png?fit=1200%2C599&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0Screenshot-2026-03-16-184855.png?fit=1200%2C599&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0Screenshot-2026-03-16-184855.png?fit=1200%2C599&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0Screenshot-2026-03-16-184855.png?fit=1200%2C599&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":242449,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=242449","url_meta":{"origin":274972,"position":5},"title":"Eighteen groups sue Biden Administration over new WOTUS rule","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"31\/01\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The Biden administration\u2019s effort to \u201cclarify\u201d federal jurisdiction over certain bodies of water under the Clean Water Act (CWA) is headed to court.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-1337.png?fit=1026%2C571&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-1337.png?fit=1026%2C571&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-1337.png?fit=1026%2C571&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-1337.png?fit=1026%2C571&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/121246920"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274972"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274983,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274972\/revisions\/274983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/274982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}