The Logan Act (1 Stat. 613, 18 U.S.C. § 953, enacted January 30, 1799) is a United States federal law that criminalizes negotiation by unauthorized persons with foreign governments having a dispute with the United States.
John Kerry, talking to Iranian officials, has been going on for several years. President Trump called him out on in last year and again the other day saying he should be prosecuted.
Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
This section shall not abridge the right of a citizen to apply, himself or his agent, to any foreign government or the agents thereof for redress of any injury which he may have sustained from such government or any of its agents or subjects.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 744; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(K), 108 Stat. 2147.)
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Isn't this exactly what John Kerry has been doing? Losers never shut up.
3 comments:
John Kerry as far as I can tell, is now a private citizen. The penalty is not worth taking up the court's time with. If everyone in congress were censured for the same thing, every seat in the House and Senate would be empty.
Oil and Gas pipelines; mineral rights; that's what it's all about: Influence Peddling.
What’s Maria Butina up to today?
@1:58...hopefully still in prison.
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