The list of congressmen sent to jail is proof that it can work. The media can investigate and report and lie about things all it wants. Watchdog groups can make all their claims public. If you want to leave it up to congress to police itself, you get Pelosi giving William Jefferson a seat on the House Ways and Means committee after he was found with a freezer full of cash (bribes). Until there was enough public pressure to remove him.
My whole point was to point out the humor in the transition team flip flopping on whether or not to trust the people that are the watchdogs on either side of the aisle....but Trump says he knows things we don't know...the suspense is killing me.
There's something to be said for the will of the voter. Representatives are all up for election every two years.
Something else to consider. This accusation has been thrown around by McCain, Graham, and others. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/bradley-manning-sentencing-hearing-pentagon The US counter-intelligence official who led the Pentagon's review into the fallout from the WikiLeaks disclosures of state secrets told the Bradley Manning sentencing hearing on Wednesday that no instances were ever found of any individual killed by enemy forces as a result of having been named in the releases.
http://www.businessinsider.com/former-cia-director-woolsey-has-split-with-trump-2017-1 Woolsey resigned after being cut out of intelligence talks with Trump and his national security adviser, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, The Washington Post's Philip Rucker reported. Woolsey came under scrutiny last week after implying to CNN's Jim Sciutto that Trump could be "playing us" with regard to what he knows about Russia's role in election-related hacks of Democratic Party organizations and officials. "There’s a possibility that he is [playing us] a little bit,” Woolsey said, referring to Trump's statement at a New Year's Eve party at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida that he would reveal what he knows about the hacking campaign on "Tuesday or Wednesday" of this week. "Why not?" Woolsey added. "He [Trump] is not interfering with anything. He’s not talking about anything classified. ... This is a behavioral mode that he has perfected. He has a point, which is that it is entirely possible to have various definitions of hacking." Woolsey also downplayed the intelligence report produced by his former agency that concluded that Russia was behind the hacking campaign on the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta. "We may see as time goes on an improved technology for sorting things out in the hacking world, but it is probably not always a good idea to say in these days and times that we know it was Russia, it was only Russia," he told CNN. "No, I'd be a little more cautious than that. ... I think the Russians were in there, but it doesn't mean other people weren't."
Not a McCain fan. http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/14/mccain-amends-water-resource-bill-to-expand-fbi-surveillance/ But do chear him on.
Fuck Lindsey Graham, too. http://theweek.com/articles/596823/cognitive-dissonance-conservative-nsa-hawks-1-telling-episode And notice how Obama spied on Israel and Jewish Americans while you're at it.
http://reason.com/blog/2017/01/05/rand-paul-reminds-msnbc-that-james-clapp Rand Paul Reminds MSNBC That James Clapper Is a Liar and Can’t Be Trusted About Russia Hacking Trump derangement syndrome is causing MSNBC to tout John McCain and Lindsey Graham as the only sane Republicans. Gulp. We were always at war with Eastasia. MSNBC, a seemingly neoconservative news outlet, is enraged that Congressional Republicans won't accept—on blind faith—the intelligence community's view that Russia was the source of the Podesta email hack. MSNBC commentator Joy Reid was particularly incensed that any Republican would dare question the honor of Director of National Security James Clapper, a man who lied about the NSA committing the most massive Fourth Amendment violation in history. Clapper told the Senate Armed Services Committee today that Russia had engaged in an unprecedented level of interference in the U.S. presidential election, for whatever his opinion is worth (not much, I hope). Sen. John McCain lashed out at Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who has claimed that Russia was not the source of the leaked information about Hillary Clinton. McCain asked Clapper, "Do you think there's any credibility we should attach to [Julian Assange], given his record?" "Not in my view," said Clapper. Perhaps McCain should have asked Clapper if the director himself deserves any credibility, in the eyes of the American people, given his past misstatements about his office's gross violation of their civil liberties. But there was nary a mention of Clapper's past dishonesty during Reid's show on Thursday night. Filling in for the usual 8:00 p.m. anchor, Chris Hayes, Reid asked Republican Rep. Mo Brooks, a member of the House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs committees, whether he considered himself, "a Julian Assange Republican like Sean Hannity, or a John McCain Republican like DNI Clapper and others who say Russia was behind the hacking?"
