Under Fascism, elected officials no longer govern and secretive government agencies assume control

[JGalt]

They said "It couldn't happen here", but It has happened here.


AG Garland Sends Memo Warning DOJ Against Talking To Congress

"All congressional inquiries and correspondence from Members, committees, and staff should be immediately directed to OLA upon receipt"

"Attorney General Merrick Garland has circulated a memo to Department of Justice personnel articulating DOJ policy that its personnel are not to communicate with Congress directly, but to go through an internal office first.

"[N]o department employee may communicate with Senators, Representatives, congressional committees, or congressional staff without advance coordination, consultation, and approval by OLA [Office of Legislative Affairs]," Fox News quoted the memo as stating. The memo only restates existing policy and does not represent a change.

"All congressional inquiries and correspondence from Members, committees, and staff should be immediately directed to OLA upon receipt," according to an existing DOJ policy manual the outlet highlighted.

The memo comes as whistleblowers have flocked to Republican elected officials with whistleblower allegations of political bias in the aftermath of the FBI's raid on former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate."

Garland sends memo warning DOJ against talking to Congress

 

[1srelluc]

That's what happens when congress refuses to legislate and cedes their power to the executive branch where all the armed minions are.....What did you expect would happen?

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

Is Garland breaking the Whistleblower law?
Why doesn't Garland want his employees to talk to Congress?
This seems to be highly suspicious behavior.

Statutes | Whistleblower Protection Program

www.whistleblowers.gov

Whistleblowing - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Votto]

They said "It couldn't happen here", but It has happened here.


AG Garland Sends Memo Warning DOJ Against Talking To Congress

"All congressional inquiries and correspondence from Members, committees, and staff should be immediately directed to OLA upon receipt"

"Attorney General Merrick Garland has circulated a memo to Department of Justice personnel articulating DOJ policy that its personnel are not to communicate with Congress directly, but to go through an internal office first.

"[N]o department employee may communicate with Senators, Representatives, congressional committees, or congressional staff without advance coordination, consultation, and approval by OLA [Office of Legislative Affairs]," Fox News quoted the memo as stating. The memo only restates existing policy and does not represent a change.

"All congressional inquiries and correspondence from Members, committees, and staff should be immediately directed to OLA upon receipt," according to an existing DOJ policy manual the outlet highlighted.

The memo comes as whistleblowers have flocked to Republican elected officials with whistleblower allegations of political bias in the aftermath of the FBI's raid on former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate."

Garland sends memo warning DOJ against talking to Congress

The DNC controls the media and any law enforcement in the Federal government, so why does it matter what they do?

They can do as they damn well please.

 

[Moonglow]

They said "It couldn't happen here", but It has happened here.


AG Garland Sends Memo Warning DOJ Against Talking To Congress

"All congressional inquiries and correspondence from Members, committees, and staff should be immediately directed to OLA upon receipt"

"Attorney General Merrick Garland has circulated a memo to Department of Justice personnel articulating DOJ policy that its personnel are not to communicate with Congress directly, but to go through an internal office first.

"[N]o department employee may communicate with Senators, Representatives, congressional committees, or congressional staff without advance coordination, consultation, and approval by OLA [Office of Legislative Affairs]," Fox News quoted the memo as stating. The memo only restates existing policy and does not represent a change.

"All congressional inquiries and correspondence from Members, committees, and staff should be immediately directed to OLA upon receipt," according to an existing DOJ policy manual the outlet highlighted.

The memo comes as whistleblowers have flocked to Republican elected officials with whistleblower allegations of political bias in the aftermath of the FBI's raid on former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate."

Garland sends memo warning DOJ against talking to Congress

2020 was a GREAT example of that.

 

[Marener]

You guys realize that the DoJ is an execute agency. Congress doesn’t run the DoJ.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

They said "It couldn't happen here", but It has happened here.


AG Garland Sends Memo Warning DOJ Against Talking To Congress

"All congressional inquiries and correspondence from Members, committees, and staff should be immediately directed to OLA upon receipt"

"Attorney General Merrick Garland has circulated a memo to Department of Justice personnel articulating DOJ policy that its personnel are not to communicate with Congress directly, but to go through an internal office first.

"[N]o department employee may communicate with Senators, Representatives, congressional committees, or congressional staff without advance coordination, consultation, and approval by OLA [Office of Legislative Affairs]," Fox News quoted the memo as stating. The memo only restates existing policy and does not represent a change.

"All congressional inquiries and correspondence from Members, committees, and staff should be immediately directed to OLA upon receipt," according to an existing DOJ policy manual the outlet highlighted.

The memo comes as whistleblowers have flocked to Republican elected officials with whistleblower allegations of political bias in the aftermath of the FBI's raid on former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate."

Garland sends memo warning DOJ against talking to Congress

This was the same policy under Trump and you were not whining about it then...why is that?

 

[Moonglow]

You guys realize that the DoJ is an execute agency. Congress doesn’t run the DoJ.

They think the president is not elected.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Is Garland breaking the Whistleblower law?
Why doesn't Garland want his employees to talk to Congress?
This seems to be highly suspicious behavior.

Statutes | Whistleblower Protection Program

www.whistleblowers.gov

Whistleblowing - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The memo only restates existing policy and does not represent a change.

 

[1srelluc]

You guys realize that the DoJ is an execute agency. Congress doesn’t run the DoJ.

 

[Moonglow]

That's what happens when congress refuses to legislate and cedes their power to the executive branch where all the armed minions are.....What did you expect would happen?

When did Congress stop legislating?

 

[Marener]

I don’t think you guys understand the government very well.

Congress doesn’t run the DoJ. The president does.

Guess what? The president is elected!

This entire thread is stupid.

 

[1srelluc]

I don’t think you guys understand the government very well.

Congress doesn’t run the DoJ. The president does.

Guess what? The president is elected!

This entire thread is stupid.

LOL....I guess you don't get humor....I'm agreeing with you.....Come on man.

See post #2.

 

[JGalt]

This was the same policy under Trump and you were not whining about it then...why is that?

Because the DOJ was just as corrupt then, that it is now. They were also trying just as hard to indict Trump then, as they are now.

Now let me school you on just how least "fascist" Trump was:

"Of the last three presidents, Trump was either the most indifferent or the most obstructed when it came to using government agencies for his own partisan political advantages or to neuter his enemies.

For the Left, Donald Trump is synonymous with “fascism” (or “semi-fascism,” as Joe Biden put it the other day). And for Liz Cheney and most of the NeverTrumpers, he remains an existential threat to democracy.

But to quantify those charges, what exactly has Trump done extralegally - as opposed to his bombast and braggadocio about what he might have wished to have done?

And what are the standards by which to judge this supposed menace?

Did Trump illegally and with a mere signature nullify over $300 billion of contracted student loans—to firm up his college-student and college-graduate base nine weeks before the midterm elections?

If Trump wished to abuse his power over the IRS, he would have followed the Obama model of weaponizing it during a reelection year to go after his ideological enemies.

Did Trump blatantly use the national security apparatus of the government to enhance his own reelection bid in 2020?

Was Trump ever caught on a hot mic promising a Russian president that he would try to ease Russian worries about Eastern European missile defense if only the Russians would give him space during his 2012 campaign for president against Mitt Romney?

Did Trump weaponize the FBI? That is, did the FBI go after journalists, former Obama officials, or Democratic Party activists who variously were attacking Don Jr. or Ivanka on the pretenses of retrieving one of their lost laptops or diaries?

Are there texts of Trump-era FBI agents talking about how to “stop” Hillary Clinton’s or Biden’s election bid?

Did the Trump Justice Department start an investigation of the suspected illegal lobbying of Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, who used the former’s political connections to win large cash payments from foreign governments?

Did Trump order an FBI raid on the Obama home, on rumors that there were thousands of documents under dispute with the National Archives in his possession, especially given the Obama record of fiercely fighting any Freedom of Information Act lawsuits to release his documents?

Was Jake Sullivan’s phone grabbed by the FBI at an airport to determine his role in the Russian collusion hoax?

Are there now any former Trump loyalists who, as “anonymous” officials in cabinet agencies or obstructionists on the National Security Council, are writing op-eds about their stealthy daily efforts to undermine Biden’s executive orders or his administration’s action?

Are there now “50 former intelligence officials” who signed affidavits in support of Trump’s allegations about the authenticity of Hunter’s laptop?

Between 2017 and 2020, did Trump’s team systematically seek to change the voting laws in key states to radically transform traditional balloting, in a mail-in or early voting revolution, in which only 30 percent of the electorate would vote on Election Day?

Was there any “dark money” effort analogous to the efforts of corporate and tech money along with DNC activists and Biden operators in what Time magazine’s Molly Ball described as a “conspiracy” to ensure the defeat of Trump’s opponent?

How about Trump’s efforts to revolutionize the very system of government? Did he promote a court-packing scheme to ensure he might not just get a 5-4 majority, but perhaps an 11-4 conservative advantage in a new 15-justice Supreme Court?

Did he dream up ways of getting rid of the Electoral College so the “blue wall” might never return?

Did Trump as president meet with CIA and FBI directors who, in their weekly and daily briefings, apprised him of efforts to monitor, spy, and infiltrate the campaign of Joe Biden?

The strange thing about Trump was that he did not use extraordinary powers to investigate anyone unlawfully. He boasted, he railed, he screamed, he whined, he became at times crude and obnoxious. But he did not use the FBI, the CIA, the Justice Department, or the IRS to go after the Obamas, the Clintons, or the Bidens.

In fact, of the last three presidents, Trump was either the most inept or indifferent, or the most obstructed concerning any issue of using government agencies for his own partisan political advantages or to neuter his enemies. "

The Strangest Thing About "Semi-Fascist" Trump | ZeroHedge

 

[JGalt]

You guys realize that the DoJ is an execute agency. Congress doesn’t run the DoJ.

Neither does the DOJ have oversight of Congress. It's the other way around.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Because the DOJ was just as corrupt then, that it is now. They were also trying just as hard to indict Trump then, as they are now.

But you were not whining about it when Trump was POTUS and the policy was the same.

 

[JGalt]

But you were not whining about it when Trump was POTUS and the policy was the same.

You don't even know what any of my reactions were, about the DOJ when Trump was President. Please provide a link that shows Trump's AG sending a memo to the DOJ, as did Garland.

There was far more Congressional oversight of the DOJ under Trump, than there is now.

 

[1srelluc]

Neither does the DOJ have oversight of Congress. It's the other way around.

For all practical purposes they do when they have been weaponized by the executive branch to carry out their ends and that's exactly what we have going on right now.

It looks like they are even ignoring the whistle-blower laws now. The dem executive sends them out to do their deeds and the dem controlled congress blocks any investigation into their misdeeds.

Deal with things as they stand and not "as they should be" and you will be farther ahead.

Truth be told a divided congress is the best protection.

 

[JGalt]

For all practical purposes they do when they have been weaponized by the executive branch to carry out their ends and that's exactly what we have going on right now.

It looks like they are even ignoring the whistle-blower laws now. The dem executive sends them out to do their deeds and the dem controlled congress blocks any investigation into their misdeeds.

Deal with things as they stand and not "as they should be" and you will be farther ahead.

Truth be told a divided congress is the best protection.

This is all the same shit they pulled when Obama was in office. Harassment of political opponents by the DOJ, as well as the IRS.

How quickly people forget.

 

[Marener]

Neither does the DOJ have oversight of Congress. It's the other way around.

There is far more oversight under Biden than Trump who routinely prevented executive employees from communicating with Congress.

Garland is just saying that employees of the DoJ should go through the OLA when Congress requests information, which is appropriate and does not end Congressional oversight.

The DoJ has a long history of preventing politicians of meddling in ongoing investigations. We don't want politics invading the judicial system.