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They Know what They are Doing This Time (and are successfully dismantling government) [1]
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Date: 2025-01-29
While most of us are caught up in the flurry of EOs and memos, lies from the WH and the WH Press Sec, this recent article in The Atlantic caught my eye:
It's Not Amateur Hour Anymore
Trump’s team is savvy and has been planning to remake the federal government for years.
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A chilling read. They came quite prepared. Here’s a peek:
“...what they want is very clear: to take full control of the federal government.
Consider, as a first example, the order that reassigned 20 senior career lawyers within the U.S. Department of Justice. Because of their career status, they could not be unilaterally fired, but Trump’s team did the next best thing by reassigning them to a newly created “Sanctuary Cities” task force. With one administrative act, the senior leaders of public-integrity investigations, counter-intelligence investigations, and crypto-currency investigations—individuals with immense experience in criminal law—were taken off the board and assigned to a body that is, apparently, tasked with taking legal actions against cities that do not assist in Trump’s immigration crackdown. Their former offices were effectively neutered.”
And then there’s
“This maneuver has a further effect: to disable opposition. Career employees with this degree of expertise and experience are exactly the type who would embody institutional norms and, thus, exactly the sort who could be expected, in their own way, to form a bulwark of institutional resistance to Trumpian excess. Moreover, three of the prosecuting sections of the DOJ that have been disrupted—public integrity (an anti-corruption unit), counterintelligence (combatting foreign influence), and crypto crime—are precisely the three units whose oversight might interfere with Trump’s activities, or those of his allies.”
Don’t be fooled by thinking what some in the media are saying: they’re incompetent. The courts will save us.
No. They are kneecapping our basic need for expertise and protection against corruption. And it’s happening right under our noses.
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