Edit: I was being extremely sarcastic. I was hoping linking to the EFF would be enough of a clue.
The USA political system fosters a short term focus on who gets to be king of the hill, at the expense of reforming this shit show.
We get it: orange man bad. But guess what? Orange man didn't create this system. That was done over decades. Orange man didn't start a needless war that cost trillions and the deaths of thousands of troops and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi citizens. Obama, who I voted for twice, not counting my primary votes for him, kept us in Afghanistan, and didn't pardon Snowden, but did pardon Chelsea Manning.
I don't care if this helps orange man a little bit, because he will be gone in a few years, worst case scenario, a few months best case. But the smooth talking, non offensive marketing figurehead for the other party will hopefully not have so much power to abuse when they take office.
Compare this with their coverage of a different revelation of state secrets: the US pressuring the UK to sell out their healthcare in the UK-US trade negotiations. They focus entirely on how it's "associated with a Russian disinformation campaign", with a tiny little addendum that "the leaks seem accurate".
They like to present themselves as trustworthy and neutral, and indeed their coverage is very accurate. But their selection of stories to cover, and angles to cover them from, hides a tremendous bias (which doesn't neatly map to US party lines, as the examples I gave illustrate).
That is because every media outlet is biased. I have yet to find a news source that doesn't seem to lean in one direction or the other.
It's not as big of a problemas abuse of power by a federal institution that directed genocide and, incidentally, which that other federal institution answers to, which makes it strange that that's exactly what you are using it to minimize.
> Orange man didn't create this system.
The manner in which Donald Trump has corrupted the administration of the executive branch and for which is defenders—includig those who can't bring themselves to a direct defense by only engage in the kind do distraction you are engaging in now—are desperate to set the precedent of total absence of accountability is one of greatest dangers to democratic-republican government in the history of the nation. Certainly, it builds on a history tracing back at least through the Nixon pardon, the relative lack of accountability in Iran-Contra, the Republican Congress so burnt out from a failed attempt to impeach Clinton for lying about sex that it couldn't muster up accountability for a war waged not only without Congressional action, but against direct Congressional denial of authority, and scores of abuses, including bad faith in making determinations Congress required in the Iraq AUMF, war crimes, torture, etc., directed at the highest levels of the Bush Administration, etc.
But we're running out of opportunities to draw a line in executive abuses of power before there is no more capacity to restrain.
> Obama [...] did pardon Chelsea Manning.
In fact, he did not. He commuted Manning's sentence, which is a very different thing. Not that I see how the issue would be relevant to the rest of the discussion either way.
What are you referring to?
On December 19, 1998, Clinton became the second American president to be impeached (the first being Andrew Johnson, who was impeached in 1868)[a] when the House formally adopted articles of impeachment and forwarded them to the United States Senate for adjudication. A trial in the Senate began in January 1999, with Chief Justice William Rehnquist presiding. On February 12, Clinton was acquitted on both counts as neither received the necessary two-thirds majority vote of the senators present for conviction and removal from office – in this instance 67.
No.
"They used to know better"
Wrong again:
1. They should have published it.
2. That article from the Bush era revealed something. The article posted here today is an editorial that doesn't reveal anything new. Instead it discusses a report from a government agency.
This question has nothing to do with Trump and the election. It's about the misbehavior of our law enforcement and courts. That's a present danger, and important to address ASAP.
Why?