{"id":64019,"date":"2017-08-10T05:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64019"},"modified":"2017-08-06T12:15:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T17:15:37","slug":"the-book-of-reagan-chapter-3-verse-5-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64019","title":{"rendered":"The Book Of Reagan, Chapter 3, Verse 5-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Justice Department is part of the Executive Branch.\u00a0 They work for the President.<\/p>\n<p>In theory, the Justice Department ought to be non-political.\u00a0 But as these articles note, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2017\/07\/31\/540652568\/sally-yates-on-pattern-of-political-interference-at-justice-department\">career bureaucrats have their own agenda<\/a> and they resent their bosses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/01\/us\/politics\/trump-affirmative-action-universities.html?smid=fb-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur&amp;pagewanted=all\">telling them what to do<\/a>. \u00a0The comments by former Obama administration officials make it clear that they believe they are not accountable to the President.\u00a0 They\u2019re not accountable to anybody.<\/p>\n<p>The notion of unaccountable bureaucrats pursuing their own agenda is anti-American.\u00a0 There is no authority for it in the Constitution, legislation or case-law.\u00a0 It usurps lawful authority.\u00a0 It\u2019s a form of coup, undermining the rightful government.\u00a0 They are the swamp Trump promised to drain.<\/p>\n<p>Take a lesson from Ronaldus Magnus.\u00a0 Fire them all.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m becoming more convinced every day that Federal Law Enforcement is the &#8220;standing army&#8221; that the founding fathers were worried about, but couldn&#8217;t have possibly conceived of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The Justice Department is part of the Executive Branch.\u00a0 They work for the President. In theory, the Justice Department ought to be non-political.\u00a0 But as these articles note, the career bureaucrats have their own agenda and they resent their bosses telling them what to do. \u00a0The comments by former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64030,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64019\/revisions\/64030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}