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Bar associations throughout the legal system adopted requirements that lawyers receive regular training in “legal ethics.” Young leftist lawyers like Lois Lerner joined – indeed, Lerner was president of – the Council on Government Ethics Laws, founded in the middle of the Watergate scandal to insure that lawyers never again would feel that they could participate in such shenanigans.
These reforms are a total failure. The villains in all the dreadful deeds of Clinton and Obama presidencies are lawyers. [. . .]
these corrupt lawyers abuse the powers of their office to persecute political enemies (ask Ted Stevens, Scooter Libby, Rick Perry, or Bob Menendez) and exonerate political friends like Lois Lerner.
If the innocent are tormented by prosecutors for the sin of offending the president, then the culpable escape the criminal justice system through a politicized Justice Department that refuses to prosecute or even seriously investigate Executive Branch miscreants like Lois Lerner and Hillary Clinton, who by their own statements have violated myriad federal laws. [. . .]
virtually every decision regarding the criminality of Obama appointees has been dismissed by other Obama appointees.
Watergate reforms were intended to end the practice of Executive Branch agencies hiding information and using spurious claims of privileged communications. New laws like the Presidential Records Act, the Ethics in Government Act, and the Sunshine Act were enacted, and the Freedom of Information Act was amended to close loopholes for rogue presidential administrations.
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The Obama administration hides everything that may hurt it politically or uncover its wrongdoings. Every sort of spurious “privilege” is claimed, even to the point of the IRS refusing to give taxpayers information collected about the taxpayers themselves on the grounds that it would violate confidentiality rules.
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Consider Supreme Court Justice Kagan. She refused to recuse herself from litigation regarding Obamacare though she worked in the Justice Department on that law. Even more nauseating, Kagan admitted that when Reagan won the presidency, she got drunk, noting also that “a lot of people” got drunk, too.
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Every nasty trick, every blatant lie, every toying with the system must be exposed, and the message presented to the American people must be this: every single one of the Watergate reforms failed utterly and contemptibly.
The only reform that can work is to strip from the Executive Branch of government so much power that there will be very little power to abuse in the future. Abolish the IRS, abolish much of the Justice Department (federal laws can be enforced perfectly well by state government), abolish most or maybe all of the “independent” federal regulatory agencies, strip the president and his cabinet officers of vast amounts of power currently delegated to them by Congress, and recognize that the only cure for political corruption is to take as much power away from Washington politicians and lawyers as possible.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/04/a_scourge_of_lawyers_postwatergate.html
April 8, 2015
A Scourge of Lawyers Post-Watergate
By Bruce Walker
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