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Terrifying. The entire article, especially the closing paragraphs. In essence, no one to whom anyone with decency can report truth.
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"If we had a functioning Fourth Estate none of these corrupt officials could survive investigative media scrutiny. Unfortunately the corrupt administrative state doesn’t *play* the press, it actually involves the press…. it absorbs the press… it attaches the press viability to its own position…. it makes the press part of the corrupt process. "
"The press cannot turn against the corrupt administrative state without exposing their own culpability, participation and lack of credibility…… It’s a protective circle."
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It was said by a few here at FR 15-20 years ago ........ that if we had functioning, honest watchdog journalism .... the corruption in government would be severely eliminated.
The media is the WORST KILLER of America. These weasels need to be beaten to a pulp.
Happy Holidays ......
(snip) -- "Unfortunately, the reality in these halls of power is more Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’, and less the Book of Daniel. Reformers like Flynn wind up fired, smeared, entrapped, and standing before a Judge being told they “waived their constitutional rights” despite false charges and compromised defense counsel."
(snip) -- "Presidents (and their officers like Barr) aren’t kings over the executive branch; they were weak rulers at our founding, and have only grown weaker over time. We think they can just fire everyone in the agencies; in reality, the agencies try to make it look that way, while they write their own tickets and basically hire themselves, president after president. That’s where we get the “loyalty to the inter-agency” Vindman bizarrely proclaimed as a credo."
"This is not a tale of Barr or Trump as Daniel, being saved from the Lions for speaking truth. It’s more like the Count of Monte Cristo, luring the bad guys into traps one by one."
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Bears repeating ---
"Presidents (and their officers like Barr) aren’t kings over the executive branch; they were weak rulers at our founding, and have only grown weaker over time. We think they can just fire everyone in the agencies; in reality, the agencies try to make it look that way, while they write their own tickets and basically hire themselves, president after president. That’s where we get the “loyalty to the inter-agency” Vindman bizarrely proclaimed as a credo."