I was reading the FBI thread we just got going in here for a bit. It started with a scandal of abuse and a bit laterstarted into the child abuse issue generally.
The problem we have with our federal agencies ultimately goes back to our politicization of their management, which effectively is governed by a sort of in-house cadre of fully trained compliant political hacks, which rules everything in our bureaucracy...... The Senior Executive Service. Officials who have been "made" in the sense of proven reliable "players" for the political class elites.
I don't for an instant blanche at using the term "made" as in the "made man" in criminal crime family contexts with these people. I don't think our political class takes any more risks than our crime family with loose cannon personnel. There have to be consequences for undirected, maverick actions.
These people always get more respect than even the elected politicians, and they keep our "Ship of State" sailing smoothly across even rough political waters.
They are actually interchangeable talking heads with no expertise in anything but snow jobbing reporters and citizens.
Life under these talking heads includes some real maverick "inside jobs" no one is ever going to know about, unless it comes out in some damn stupid court somewhere, where the judge lets some subpoenas go out without realizing where they will lead. Such judges have no future in the legal system. They get known as "unreliable" or worse, disruptive.
We can all work our fingers to the bone being political activists of whatever sort, but nothing will ever change until we can elect the heads of our government agencies, or, say, a seven-member "steering committee" that reviews and publishes annual reports on the agency's budget, work product, and internal oversight. A second necessary democratic control over agency-administered governance would be to establish an entirely new "grand jury" class of appointed investigators...... one appointee from each state...... appointed by either the governor or the legislature in the state, as per some new provision of state constitutions, whose mandate is to prosecute corruption and influence peddling from lobbyists or political organizations, including political parties, political activist groups, or individuals with some personal interest.
The idea is to protect constitutional rights of everyone and prevent abuse from government agencies particularly doing stuff they shouldn't.
We also need some watchdog power against our courts and our legislatures and our president. No one should be above the law, and the law should not be above human rights eithers.
Our current SES nest of vipers has to just go. Every one I am perfectly sure, has done something dastardly wrong and lives under a constant threat of what scandal will fall on them if they go amok or upset the system. Every President should clean hose as a first administrative duty.
The problem we have with our federal agencies ultimately goes back to our politicization of their management, which effectively is governed by a sort of in-house cadre of fully trained compliant political hacks, which rules everything in our bureaucracy...... The Senior Executive Service. Officials who have been "made" in the sense of proven reliable "players" for the political class elites.
I don't for an instant blanche at using the term "made" as in the "made man" in criminal crime family contexts with these people. I don't think our political class takes any more risks than our crime family with loose cannon personnel. There have to be consequences for undirected, maverick actions.
These people always get more respect than even the elected politicians, and they keep our "Ship of State" sailing smoothly across even rough political waters.
They are actually interchangeable talking heads with no expertise in anything but snow jobbing reporters and citizens.
Life under these talking heads includes some real maverick "inside jobs" no one is ever going to know about, unless it comes out in some damn stupid court somewhere, where the judge lets some subpoenas go out without realizing where they will lead. Such judges have no future in the legal system. They get known as "unreliable" or worse, disruptive.
We can all work our fingers to the bone being political activists of whatever sort, but nothing will ever change until we can elect the heads of our government agencies, or, say, a seven-member "steering committee" that reviews and publishes annual reports on the agency's budget, work product, and internal oversight. A second necessary democratic control over agency-administered governance would be to establish an entirely new "grand jury" class of appointed investigators...... one appointee from each state...... appointed by either the governor or the legislature in the state, as per some new provision of state constitutions, whose mandate is to prosecute corruption and influence peddling from lobbyists or political organizations, including political parties, political activist groups, or individuals with some personal interest.
The idea is to protect constitutional rights of everyone and prevent abuse from government agencies particularly doing stuff they shouldn't.
We also need some watchdog power against our courts and our legislatures and our president. No one should be above the law, and the law should not be above human rights eithers.
Our current SES nest of vipers has to just go. Every one I am perfectly sure, has done something dastardly wrong and lives under a constant threat of what scandal will fall on them if they go amok or upset the system. Every President should clean hose as a first administrative duty.