One of my favorite parlor games is kicking around answers to the question, "What federal agencies and cabinet-level departments are there whose dismantling would be beneficial to America?" Certainly the EPA, and the departments of Education, Energy, Commerce, Labor, HHS and Agriculture could go this afternoon, and we'd be on a path of accelerated national revival.
But how about the Department of Justice? We've had an attorney general since 1789, but we've only surrounded that position with a bureaucracy since 1870. It exists to be our federal-level law-enforcement apparatus, but since this regime has come to power, we've seen just how easily poisoned its mission can be.
Consider, for instance, how the DoJ went shopping for a judge that would give it a warrant to get James Rosen's e-mails. Took three forays to do it, but they found one.
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