Oversight erased, Supreme Court hijacked: Trump turns the presidency into a dictatorship

[GURPS]

Trump has stripped away the levers of independent oversight until there's nothing left. Our democracy is in the midst of a three-alarm fire.

It began Friday night, when Trump informed Congress that he was firing MIchael Atkinson, the Intelligence Community’s inspector general. This was nothing more than a vile act of political retribution that had been months in the making. Atkinson fulfilled his legal responsibilities by informing Congress about a whistleblower complaint that exposed Trump’s impeachable crimes. What everyone else recognizes as following the letter of the law, the president views as cause for termination.

On Monday, Trump turned his attention to the inspector general who oversees the Department of Health and Human Services, who had just released a report revealing the extent to which hospitals were struggling to meet the health care demands associated with treating COVID-19 patients. The thorough review included interviews from 323 hospitals across 46 states and stood in stark contrast with the rhetoric coming from the president. Naturally, Trump labeled the report a “Fake Dossier” and suggested “politics” influenced it.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opin...general-blatant-corruption-column/2973535001/

 

[Gilligan]

The hand wringing and pearl clutching is fun to watch.

 

[stgislander]

Hometown newspaper just ran a story where officials from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the UP Medical Center said they were starting clinical trials across the entire 40-hospital system testing various combos of the drugs being kicked around. They also said they had plenty of ventilators and other equipment to handle their CV-19 cases, especially if it peaks this weekend as they are expecting it to.

 

[Hijinx]

Didn't Atkinson change the rulkes so that he could make his whistle blower semi legitimate.?
Didn't the old rule say that a Whistle blower had to have first hand information and Atkinson allowed this guy to use hearsay?

It is time to ask Atkinson—in the open, for all to hear—what role he had in helping to orchestrate the illicit spying on the Trump campaign.

Sounds like Atkinson was the one who used politics in doing his job.The top lawyer at the National Security Division when all four FISA warrants on Page were processed was Michael Atkinson

 

[Yooper]

The hand wringing and pearl clutching is fun to watch.

I wonder if the Abbott test can also check for this proclivity (i.e., to wring hands and clutch pearls).

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