[BuckeyeTexan]

But make no mistake about it — if Obama didn’t want this to be happening, it wouldn’t be.

Not taking action to stop the DOJ is different from ordering the DOJ to take a single, specific action. As you said, the former provides plausible deniability for Obama. The latter is an abuse of power if it can be proved that he made such instruction in an effort to subvert the law.

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Left to right: Robert O'Brien, Afghan Attorney General Abdul Jabar Sabit, and Judge David Carter at the Attorney General’s Office in Kabul.