Government employees do not take illegal actions without orders from above. Otherwise they would lose their jobs.
Government employees do not take illegal actions without orders from above. Otherwise they would lose their jobs.
Not all the time. If memory serves me correctly, Nixon didn’t order the Watergate break in. He didn’t know about it. His sin was once he did know about it, he tried to cover it up. If he had canned those responsible for the break in right away, his Presidency would have survived.