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Each president that expands the president's power manages to forget that he gives those powers to the next person. Which is how Trump now has quite the surveil
by moxious 10y ago
Each president that expands the president's power manages to forget that he gives those powers to the next person. Which is how Trump now has quite the surveillance apparatus.
- wallace_f 10y agoPresidents may not hold anywhere near as much power as we believe. Eisenhower seemed to be very concerned in his warning of this when he was leaving office half a century ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y06NSBBRtY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y06NSBBRtY
- adventured 10y agoWe got a dramatic demonstration of this in action, when the CIA performed a media hatchet job on Trump shortly after his election victory (the intelligence agencies are notorious for doing things like this, it happened numerous times during the Bush Administration). Which then prompted him to make the CIA his first stop after the inauguration, to show his belly and let them know he wasn't a threat to them. It's pretty clear where the power rests in the US.
- mercer 10y agoAssuming this is true, who exactly would have the power? The director of the CIA?
- mercer 10y agoInteresting... I'm now wondering, based on what I know about Trump, what he would do with the sudden access he has. Does he (potentially) have the full apparatus of the NSA/CIA/FBI at his disposal, or does it not quite work this way? If not, what would he need to do to get access to this kind of information, and would it be or become public information that this happened?