Whoever throws the first stone is going to start a real rock fight, and there are a lot of rotten eggs in the basket. One more reason to clean out the Congress every few years...
>>Congress is timid about asking about FBI F&F participation because of the history of AbScam, in which the FBI, in a *retaliatory* move, demonstrated widespread Congressional corruption.
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>Whoever throws the first stone is going to start a real rock fight, and there are a lot of rotten eggs in the basket. One more reason to clean out the Congress every few years...
There is one potentially serious drawback there: the congressional aides.
(I’m not sure if they stay in place until specifically replaced or not, but let’s assume that they do.)
If that’s the case then the congressional aides will be training the new reps, and I don’t trust the bureaucratic types: the only power they have is to make one jump through hoops, so to increase their power they a) increase the number of hoops, and b) lie about (invent or omit) them.