I wish he had addressed the impeachment trial and the reluctance of the courts to back up Congressional oversight, instead deferring to an unlikely "if the House doesn't like it, they can call out their Marshalls and have the offenders held", which inevitably would lead to yet another lengthy battle of court opinions that would undoubtedly run out the clock on any efforts to exert those powers.
Chelsea Manning successfully boycotted testifying to a Grand Jury (though suffering a year or so of incarceration ending in attempted suicide) - but the average administration official will never face such privations to persuade them to uphold their constitutional duty. Perhaps Manning had a point, or perhaps it was a late realization that Assange is a Russian asset that pushed her to try to end it - but at least she faced the piper. The rest just have a corrupt administration running interference for them.
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I wish he had addressed the impeachment trial and the reluctance of the courts to back up Congressional oversight, instead deferring to an unlikely "if the House doesn't like it, they can call out their Marshalls and have the offenders held", which inevitably would lead to yet another lengthy battle of court opinions that would undoubtedly run out the clock on any efforts to exert those powers.
Chelsea Manning successfully boycotted testifying to a Grand Jury (though suffering a year or so of incarceration ending in attempted suicide) - but the average administration official will never face such privations to persuade them to uphold their constitutional duty. Perhaps Manning had a point, or perhaps it was a late realization that Assange is a Russian asset that pushed her to try to end it - but at least she faced the piper. The rest just have a corrupt administration running interference for them.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 03/14/2020 - 6:38am