Impeach now
Glenn Greenwald's latest post highlights the primae facie abrogation of the independent prosecutorial powers of the judiciary by exerting "Executive Privilege" en masse to the executive branch as a whole, and to the US Justice Department, that branch's largest constituent. This is nothing new, but, continues Greenwald: (4) I confess some difficulty here in becoming particularly outraged over this latest theory. There is nothing new here. As has long been known, this administration believes themselves to reside above and beyond the reach of the law. What else would they need to do in order to make that as clear as can be? They got caught red-handed committing multiple felonies -- by eavesdropping on Americans in precisely the way the law we enacted 30 years ago prohibited -- and they not only admitted it, but vowed to continue to break our laws, and asserted the right to do so. And nothing happened. This latest assertion of power -- to literally block U.S. Attorn...