{"id":347063,"date":"2018-02-06T18:44:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T17:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/is-congress-finally-pushing-back\/"},"modified":"2018-02-06T18:44:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T17:44:29","slug":"is-congress-finally-pushing-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/is-congress-finally-pushing-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Congress Finally Pushing Back"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The last time the U.S. Congress pushed back against the Imperial Presidency and the over-reach of the nation\u2019s Security Agencies was 43 years ago, in 1975.<\/i><\/p>\n

The last time the U.S. Congress pushed back against the Imperial Presidency and the over-reach of the nation\u2019s Security Agencies was 43 years ago, in 1975.<\/b>\u00a0In response to the criminal over-reach of the Imperial Presidency (Watergate) and to the criminal over-reach of the security agencies (FBI, CIA, et al.), the Church Committee finally resusitated the constitutional powers of the Congress to serve the interests of the citizenry rather than the interests of political elites and the rogue agencies of the federal government.<\/p>\n

The erosion of congressional power (or more correctly, the surrender of power by Congress) long pre-dates 9\/11.<\/b>\u00a0The rise of the Imperial Presidency and the Shadow State of \u201cnational security\u201d agencies dates back to World War II. Those interested in tracing this long-term and troubling decline of the constitutional powers of the elected representatives may find value in these two books:\u00a0The Imperial Presidency<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.) and\u00a0Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n


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The constitution grants the greatest powers to the elected representatives of the citizenry.<\/b>\u00a0The power to declare war, for example, has been eroded to the point that the Imperial Executive can wage essentially unlimited wars with little actual oversight by Congress.<\/p>\n

There is a bitter irony in the Democrats\u2019 rush to \u201cdefend\u201d the indefensible over-reach of the FBI and CIA to those whose rights were abused by the…<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The last time the U.S. Congress pushed back against the Imperial Presidency and the over-reach of the nation\u2019s Security Agencies was 43 years ago, in 1975. The last time the U.S. Congress pushed back against the Imperial Presidency and the over-reach of the nation\u2019s Security Agencies was 43 years ago, in 1975.\u00a0In response to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-347063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}