he led the lengthy negotiations that produced the iran nuclear code, the administration s signature foreign policy achievement. trump, during his presidential campaign, called the deal insane and a disaster. on may 7, 2018, trump tweeted about mr. kerry s, quote, possibly illegal shadow diplomacy, an apparent reference to mr. kerry having conversations as a private citizen with iranian and other officials. trump tweeted another attack on mr. kerry the next day, the same day trump announced the united states was withdrawing from the accord. an justice department officials told his office he would be responsible for investigating mr. kerry s iran-related conduct. the fbi would join the inquiry. the focus was on the logan act, a rarely evoked 1799 statute barring private citizens from unauthorized negotiations with foreign governments, which has been criticized as unconstitutionally vague. mr. berman notes no one has ever been successfully prosecuted under the law, but the conduct that ha
supervisor and special agent and he joins us now. thank you for being with us. in that montage, you heard a lot about the rule of law over partisan politics. therefore, i should assume there is a raid coming. for eric swalwell and hunter biden. right? the rule of law is not a bumper sticker. i know that seems to be applied on everything today because people are gleeful that a person or political figure that they dislike is getting what they believe he has coming to them. the problem is, which you laid out at the top of the show, disparate treatment. start with general flynn, the fact that the logan act was employed. enacted in 1799, never been prosecuted. yet the fbi and doj considered it. they get to play to 1,001. that is lying to an fbi agent. 25 years and the fbi and i tell you this, i pleaded with u.s. attorneys to allow us to charge people for lying to the fbi.
out, it s very rarely used in the criminal context. it s being used here. you look at paul manafort, who was the campaign manager for donald trump. it s brought out against paul manafort, despite there being rampant by elation 62% used against michael flynn. this is a 1799 statue that is never in history of this country been used to successfully prosecute anyone. but it s used as a pretext to go in and look at michael flynn. why are never before used statutes, or rarely used statutes being used in this manner? it raises questions as the fbi doesn t go out after larry nassar the way they should ve initially. especially as one-third of portland writer cases are dropped. you know especially when you look at the abortion facilities that you seem like you to drink the doj to look into some of these inquiries. why weren t there raids in these
else. so, for me, that is the number one issue which now emerges out of this, to which country does rishi sunak really oh his loyalty? and thatis sunak really oh his loyalty? and that is a question which surely everybody should be asking about a senior politician. when we come down to the slightly more mundane level, it s very obvious that this incident has exposed difficulties with the norm domiciled rule, a rule created in 1799 to support the empire. because almost everything about our social attitudes, and frankly most things with regards to our tax law and everything else, has changed since 1799, but this law remains, it is obviously out of date. it is quite ridiculous that we actually offer people an advantage in our tax system on the basis basically of a divide around whether you are a full british person or not quite a full british person or not quite a full british person. that is a divide that our society doesn t recognise any more, as far as i m concerned. governments of all
something that we call religion. i, myself, am not a religious person, but i really deeply respect that source of power. and she was using a new york state law that said that enslaved people born after 1799, after reaching their 20 s, could had to then be released. and her son qualified under that. but the challenge was, how does she enforce this law? how did she get him out of alabama? that was the issue. he had been sold illegally into perpetual slavery in alabama. it was a long complicated family story there. she had worked with parts of the family and the part of the family that lives in alabama, she knew. so, she was able to use her