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after labeling it a national security issue, assigning the levers and machinery of government, in this case, his justice department, to go after, root out, discover, and probably go after an anonymous author from within his own ranks? well, it is completely inappropriate to use the an rat rus apparatus of the government, the authorities and capabilities of the u.s. government, to go try to squelch political dissent, political chrriticism. he d be invoking national security in an authoritarian mode, to try to root out anybody who is a political critic. it is interesting, brian, because if you re-read that op-ed, it was all about the fact that people in the government are simply ignoring the president and basically doing their job and ignoring when he directs them to do outlandish things. we saw this at the pentagon when he directed them to build 30,000 nuclear weapons. the pentagon said, we re not going to do it.
root out, discover, and probably go after an anonymous author from within his own ranks? well, it is completely inappropriate to use the apparatus of the government, the national security authorities and capabilities of the u.s. government to go try to squelch political dissent, political criticism. he d be invoking national security in an authoritarian mode, to try to root out anybody who is a political critic. it is interesting, brian, because if you re-read that op-ed, it was all about the fact that people in the government are simply ignoring the president and basically doing their job and ignoring when he directs them to do outlandish things. we saw this at the pentagon when he directed them to build 30,000 nuclear weapons. the pentagon said, we re not going to do it. we see it in the woodward book when the president said go and assassinate assad. people said we re not going to do it. and here again i think nobody is