The president's lawlessness is systematically corrupting the United States, inside and out.
Trump's killing of Qassem Suleimani brings America to the brink of a war with Iran without any congressional approval, in direct violation of Congress' war making authority under the Constitution.
The outing not only imperils the whistleblower's safety. It violates the purpose of the whistleblower act, which is to protect people who alert authorities that government officials are violating the law. Gallagher's Navy SEAL accusers were themselves whistleblowers who broke the SEAL's code of silence in order to stop a rogue chief. Now they face recrimination from within the ranks. From now on, any soldier who witnesses a superior officer committing possible war crimes will be more reluctant to report them.
And now, after the Justice Department's own inspector general has found that the FBI had plenty of evidence to start its Russia probe—more than 100 contacts between members of the Trump campaign and Russian agents during the 2016 campaign—Barr refuses to be bound by the findings, and has appointed a prosecutor to launch yet another inquiry into the origins of the Russia investigation.
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