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Checks and Balance newsletter: The post-post-Watergate era

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James Bennett, a column writer in Lexington, in the post -abundance era

Donald Trump explained that he intends in his second term for the public lawyer Federal Bureau of Investigation The director to provide his bids, obliterating post -water standards aimed at protecting the rule of law by preserving the reasonable independence of these roles from political intervention. I share concerns about this change, but I also believe that sanctification of the standards distracts from the real problem. After all, those rules, While I write in Lexington this weekThe country did not always serve well.

Long before Watergate, independence from political influence – may be the ability to reach it may be another term for him – and that himself poses a danger. J. Edgar Hover showed this 48 years old Federal Bureau of InvestigationMexor presidents, collecting files on “sex deviates” and grieves the likes of Martin Luther King. As for political accreditation, John Kennedy may be unusual in appointing his brother as a general lawyer, but he was typical on the other hand: he was also the third consecutive president who appoints his campaign manager in the job, as Tim Winner wrote in “enemies”, his history. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Just later, during the reign of Richard Nixon and John Mitchell-another campaign director that turned into the public lawyer-the risks of this intense political loyalty became flagrant. (In the pre -water era, it was an independent act by the top Federal Bureau of Investigation The official-the beloved-who was criminalized in the White House and dropped the president.) In any case, America was able to survive-in fact, to flourish-after that without post-water standards more than the standards with them.

What matters, apparently for me, is not the presence or lack of rules, but for public virtue in the first place. Instead of Fealty for any abstract rule, this is the test that I hope that all the candidates will keep for any role. Idrees Kahloon, Beit Higseth, also writes the choice of Mr. Trump to be the Minister of Defense, who has no private life to explain it only; It also seems that he is a failure of a non -profit leadership aimed at serving the veterans; He mocked the idea that the soldiers should obey the laws against war crimes.

The general virtue test is the failure of President Joe Biden in his decision, unlike his commitment, to pardon his son Hunter. Our leader He explains in eloquence only why the betrayal of his principle is very harmful: “At best, his legacy sacrificed his love for his son; The Americans, with an overwhelming majority, were soap of this opinion. In the next afternoon era, the new rule may be proven.

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