Re:Obama’s Path From Critic to Overseer of Spying
by aaronem on Thursday January 16, 2014 @11:23AM
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A glib answer, to be sure. What do you recommend regarding the unelected civil service bureaucracy which has such a large hand in how the United States are administered? I can't imagine seeing any president take on the State Department, for example, but having seen at least one senator do so, I suspect I know who'd win.
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Re:Obama’s Path From Critic to Overseer of Spying
by dllthomas on Thursday January 16, 2014 @11:52AM
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One Senator wields 0.5% (ish) of the authority of a branch of government that State Department officials and staff don't (directly) work for. The President wields 100% of the authority of the branch of government that the State Department officials and staff work for. I think these things are different in both kind and degree.