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2013-12-19 Home Front: WoT

Senators clash with Justice Department lawyer over CIA intelligence memos

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Posted by Fred 2013-12-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Caroline Krass, a top justice department lawyer, sparked the ire of several Senate intelligence committee members by claiming that crucial legal opinions about intelligence matters were beyond the scope of the committee.

.....and by extension, also beyond the rule of law. Behold 'the beast' senators.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-12-19 10:52|| 2013-12-19 10:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Understandable mistake by Krass: Congress has outsourced so much of its regulatory and rule-writing power to the Executive branch that she thought she had the rule-writing power to tell the Congress to sod off.

It's an easy mistake to make once you've aggrandized enough power.

Posted by Steve White 2013-12-19 12:14|| 2013-12-19 12:14|| Front Page Top

#3 But, but, but we must give him ~~what he wants~~ the tools he needs. Our first IndoKenyan master must not FAIL !

Posted by Besoeker 2013-12-19 12:20|| 2013-12-19 12:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Krass and her Klingon colleagues are the masters. Champ is simply the puppet.

Here, get him involved. Johnson loved the maps and B-52 strikes. Give him the Drone lists. He'll come to enjoy it. You'll see.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-12-19 12:38|| 2013-12-19 12:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Krass is still DoJ and angling to be a Klingon. That said, it's obvious what the prevailing mindset is.

Posted by Pappy 2013-12-19 18:09|| 2013-12-19 18:09|| Front Page Top

#6 The legislative branch has become a insider country club in the Senate and a money and influence peddling organization in the House by which its members and cronies enrich themselves and their peers. Congress has ceased to be a governing body - the Senate and House haven't even performed their primary function of passing a true budget, nor have they performed their designed purpose, which is to Represent the states and the people, respectively.

Small wonder we have devolved into an imperial presidency over the past couple of administrations,with the executive branch running roughshod, far exceeding what should be considered its constitutional limits (due to an "activist" progressive judiciary).

Posted by OldSpook 2013-12-19 22:56|| 2013-12-19 22:56|| Front Page Top

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