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In reply to the discussion: White House office to delete its FOIA regulations [View all]TM99
(8,352 posts)That's the argument in all these fucking threads these days.
Well, it is legal. Hillary did what she did with the mail server, but you know it is legal. Obama promised transparency but isn't really in to keeping that promise. Oh, and did I mention it is legal what he is doing and has done. Torture is A-OK cause some folks did what was totally legal during a stressful time. We can drone those fuckers because hey, enemy combatants. And yes siree, it is legal.
What made Watergate and Iran/Contra bad was not just their illegalities (some aspects were completely legal), it was the unethical & inappropriate behavior. As a body politic, we used to know this. Now it is just about neo-liberal economic policies and neo-con foreign policies with no thoughts or concerns on whether the political behaviors that support both of those positions on both the right or the left are right. They are not.
I don't bloody care if this is fucking legal. I care because this President did not stop the Bush era imperial presidency, he is fucking enhancing it. He is codifying it further so that there will be no point of return from where we are headed. He offered a different way but it was just a sick marketing campaign designed to get the Democrats to 'love' him as a leader as much as the Republicans 'loved' Bush and Reagan.
And yes, my observations & criticisms apply to Congress and the courts as well. But I am not letting this president off the hook just because of those two either. We have a Republic where they are supposed to check and balance each other. Now they work together to support the true owners of Washington, DC and this country. And that ain't you or me!
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