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Safeguards only matter when there are people and institutions to enforce them. Remember all those people they fired? All part of the plan.
by encomiast 11mo ago
Safeguards only matter when there are people and institutions to enforce them. Remember all those people they fired? All part of the plan.
- reactordev 11mo agoThis. Everyone is waiting for “the day” to come but they were all laid off back in April. This is why no one is stopping this. Everyone is doing it.
- refurb 11mo agoWhich people specifically. Can you provide a source?
- encomiast 11mo agoHere’s a small example. There are more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_dismissals_of_U.S._inspectors_general https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_dismissals_of_U.S._inspec...
- refurb 11mo agoSeems like a long history of firing IGs instated in prior administrations. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/03/watchdog-report-cuffari-biden-00182414 https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/03/watchdog-report-cuf...
- encomiast 11mo agoThe article you posted is about a truly damning investigation into Joseph Cuffari. Cuffari is STILL the IG at DHS. He was not fired -- sheesh: https://www.oig.dhs.gov/about/MeetTheIG https://www.oig.dhs.gov/about/MeetTheIG
- refurb 10mo agoSo it's only ok for one party to fire IGs?
- encomiast 10mo agoWho said anything about parties? And who said anything about it being okay to fire IGs (especially illegally). Which IG did anyone say it was okay to fire? The article you posted to support this idea wasn’t even fired! He’s still in the job. It seems that you are primarily interested in polarizing this discussion. I’ll leave you to that. I’m out.