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Which rules do you suspect the Obama administration broke? In general the reason things take a long time to do in a bureaucracy is because of the required appr
by michaelhoffman 13y ago
Which rules do you suspect the Obama administration broke?
In general the reason things take a long time to do in a bureaucracy is because of the required approvals from many different officials. If the President or a cabinet secretary wants something to happen now, this is less likely to be necessary.
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- lukifer 13y ago"The tree that doesn't bend, breaks." "Bend too far, and you're already broken." It's more an issue of redefining the rules than breaking them. Court oversight becomes a secret rubber stamp that's never denied. Search becomes querying the database we already have. Non-citizenship becomes 51% confidence. Spying on enemy nations during wartime becomes Hey, Everybody's Doing It, Why Can't We? ...etc
- michaelhoffman 13y agoThat's interesting but it doesn't answer the question of which rules the Obama administration broke by revoking Snowden's passport.
- bobwaycott 13y agoNot sure which, if any, were broken, but here's a quick rundown of existing rules I've found thus far: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5976018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5976018 I'm rather out of my depth where passport laws are concerned, though.
- javajosh 13y agoI honestly don't know which ones, as I am not a lawyer or familiar with the processes that surround passport control. But I think it is very likely, verging on certainty, that some rules were broken.
- michaelhoffman 13y agoSince you disclaim any knowledge of the subject, how is it that you feel qualified to make a pronouncement that something is almost certain?