> Don't you think leaders should be held accountable for the actions of their administration? Color me cynical, but people only mutter this when it's someone o

> Don't you think leaders should be held accountable for the actions of their administration? Color me cynical, but people only mutter this when it's someone on the other team. So, in general do I think we should follow that principle? Yes. Do I think people widely believe that enough to hold their own self-interest-adjacent parties accountable? Certainly not. If you want to be very picky, the rule Mr Garland invented was in response to a Biden executive order [1] [2]. The executive order is long, but section 3 is pretty succinct and clear. If Mr Garland implemented an opaque system then I can predict one of two scenarios occurred, maybe both: 1. All of the information the court receives is classified and should never have been leaked in the first place, so no one should know. That means the way someone does know is because of the watchdogs inside the intelligence community. 2. Mr Garland is openly defying the President through process and appeasing someone (maybe the intelligence community). 1: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/10/14/2022-22234/data-protection-review-court https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/10/14/2022-22... 2: https://www.state.gov/executive-order-14086-policy-and-procedures/#safeguarding https://www.state.gov/executive-order-14086-policy-and-proce...