National Intelligence agency will no longer brief Congress in person on election security

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15. From an article in the Washington Post. I agree Congress should act, but it won't. How many

Democrats voted for the Patriot Act after 9-11? Our system has changed with the consent of both parties and here we are today.

Yet over time, as experts approvingly concede, the president has become the main agent within U.S. democracy. Presidential government replaced congressional government over the course of the 20th century. This is no simple shift in the Constitution’s architecture — it’s an unbalancing of the Framers’ design and a hard one to stop. The executive office accrues unprecedented, unconstitutional powers with each new president. As individuals, they are hardly to blame. They are doing their job, faithfully executing the growing powers of the office.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2016/03/08/the-growth-of-executive-power-has-turned-politics-into-war/