Faun
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Meeting foreign dignitaries is one thing -- conducting foreign policy without expressed authorization from the current administration is another. There's only one president at a time.Ok let’s arrest Obama for violating the Logan Act when he was still a presidential candidate. Let’s arrest John Kerry for talking to Iran about the Iran deal after he retired when trump was president. Opppps. Y’all are pretty silent about that stuff. Like Obama wasn’t even president elect and he was doing this shit.All that does is formally create a framework for transitioning from the outgoing administration to the incoming one. Nothing in there designates the incoming administration as a government entity, authorized to fulfill the duties of the current administration. Mostly, it's about funding and facilitating the transfer of power.Turns out I was wrong. It was 1963. Even betterPost a link to that....For the 50th fucking time, the presidential transition team is a legal governmental entity since 1968. Flynn was incapable of violating the Logan act since he named incoming NSA.Who gives a shit? He wasn't charged with violating the Logan Act though I suspect he knew he had broken it when he lied to the FBI. He was charged with, and admitted to, lying to cover up the subject of his conversation with Kislyak.One person in 1802, the other in 1852, neither convicted. This is an antiquated bullshit law that no prosecutor would ever bring to court and no judge would ever allow. It's constitutionality is questionable at best, due to it's vagueness. Which is why no one has ever been convicted under that law.
Text of H.R. 4638 (88th): An Act to promote the orderly transfer of the Executive power in connection … (Passed Congress version) - GovTrack.us
Text of H.R. 4638 (88th): An Act to promote the … as of Mar 7, 1964 (Passed Congress version). H.R. 4638 (88th): An Act to promote the orderly transfer of the Executive power in connection with the expiration of the term of office …www.govtrack.us
There is only one administration at a time.
It’s a transition team. They all do a great deal of foreign policy work, and rubbing of elbows, and talking with diplomats and world leaders etc. It’s pretty much the only work they can do. The sitting president is a lame duck, the world could give 2, maybe 3 fucks about them.
And yes it is a government entity. It’s not a private entity. They get all the same foreign ongoings and classified security briefs because they deal in that shit during the transition.
Charwin this is an example of someone asking me a question they could’ve googled, and then shifting the goal posts when the easily findable evidence is produced