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Re:The FBI's Leaders 'Have No Idea What They're Doing' by jpadkins on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @04:41AM (#44732050)
will of the people is a common phrase used in context to a democratic form of government. Elections are how the 'will of the people' are expressed (not polls, but political parties do listen to polls).

I'm not interested in discussing the current president, I am interested in your very different interpretation of the US government (which clearly lays out 3 branches of government).

> To the courts? According to the laws and statutes voted by Congress?

So in your view on how the government should run, after Congress creates a federal agencies, they don't have to worry about any election or democratic process. They only have to worry about the courts if they break the law? Who arrests or prosecutes the DOJ or the FBI? Who brings them to court?

> I mean, have you ever educated yourself about your own political system before asking those questions? Shouldn't you have?

I understand the US government, as designed by the US constitution very well. I am trying to understand this bizarre concept of "independent" federal agencies and why people should prefer that over our current system of an executive branch led by an democratically elected President. A government of agencies with permanent power, with no checks or balances or any reason to be concerned with what citizens care about sounds like a dystopian form of government. You haven't really convinced me that this "independent" style is preferable in anyway. All you really have done is just ranted on why you don't like the current President, but I bet you didn't care about these agencies "independence" from POTUS 44 or 46.

Re:The FBI's Leaders 'Have No Idea What They're Doing' by aredox on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @05:53AM (#44732451)
>I understand the US government, as designed by the US constitution very well.

> A government of agencies with permanent power, with no checks or balances or any reason to be concerned with what citizens care about

Both of those sentences are lies.

But enjoy your return to the 1800's nepotism and patronage.

https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/3595/

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/20/nx-s1-5302537/history-congres...

These two articles were literaly the first page results when you google "independent agencies us history", but you couldn't be bothered, so you choose to bother everyone here.