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15. It's an ignorant public who believes that the DoJ operates completely independently from the

Reply to Honeycombe8 (Reply #11)

Wed May 9, 2012, 10:59 AM

May 2012

executive branch. That poor little defenseless President has no power over that completely unaccountable DoJ. I hope you don't truly believe that's what the power dynamic is like. If you really think that's the case, then Obama was awfully stupid talking about how he'd change things with regard to MMJ when he got into office, wasn't he?

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