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US axes website for reporting human rights abuses by US-armed foreign forces

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763 points tartoran | 1 comments | 23 Oct 25 14:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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mikeyouse ◴[23 Oct 25 14:35 UTC] No.45682307[source]▶
> Tim Rieser, former senior aide to Senator Leahy who wrote the 2011 amendment mandating information gathering, told the BBC the gateway's removal meant the State Department was "clearly ignoring the law".

We're in a really bad place... with a servile congress, it turns out there aren't really any laws constraining the executive branch. When everything relies on "independent IGs" for law enforcement inside executive branch departments, and the President can fire them all without consequence or oversight, then it turns out there is no law.

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wffurr ◴[23 Oct 25 14:46 UTC] No.45682445[source]▶
The answer is impeachment, but when Congress is stuffed with boot licking toadies, then there is no recourse.
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AndrewKemendo ◴[23 Oct 25 15:23 UTC] No.45682910[source]▶
If a population decides to let themselves be run this way then who is at fault?

People get the leaders they deserve

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jkestner ◴[23 Oct 25 15:43 UTC] No.45683176[source]▶
We love to blame the common clay, don't we. You can win a majority of voters and lose an election. There are systemic problems, starting with money in politics, two senators per state, the electoral college and gerrymandering.
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1. notahacker ◴[23 Oct 25 16:37 UTC] No.45683916[source]▶
You can win a majority of voters and lose an election, but that's not what happened. 77 million people voted for Trump, and it's not like he acted like a mild mannered constitutional conservative with a sensible reform package and turned into a vindictive, chaotic wannabe autocrat whose closest thing to a redeeming feature is is stupidity afterwards. The electoral college and gerrymandering may be ludicrous, but that's not why he won, and nor is lack of funds for opponents. The system of checks and balances isn't what they were cracked up to be, but the reason he's dismantling it is because when he telegraphed that he was going to do it the people of the land cheered him so loudly anyone else that wanted their votes stepped in line.