4 ms·
Once government agencies are given approval from congress they typically have very little oversight from that point on including from congress. Its why we get
by trident5000 5y ago
Once government agencies are given approval from congress they typically have very little oversight from that point on including from congress. Its why we get abusive behavior from so many of them.
NSA: Prism
DEA: Asset forfeiture
FBI/CIA: Abusing fisa and using five eyes to spy domestically
IRS: Political targeting
etc etc etc
- giantg2 5y agoATF: Approving background checks on known traffickers and continuing to sell them guns even after there were concerns they couldn't track the weapons. (And ruby ridge, and waco... )
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoATF is the one of the few federal agencies that's simultaneously hated by both the right and the left. They bring crime to poor urban areas with their anti-gun trafficking operations and violate people's 2a rights left and right with their mundane administrative operations and enforcement thereof. Nobody who knows what they do likes them.
- giantg2 5y agoEven the FBI dislikes them. Both Waco and Ruby Ridge started as botched ATF operations that the FBI had to take over.