NYT Response to the Trump asking Sessions to investigate Anonymous Op-Ed: No You're The Traitor

[kpete]

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Putin knows if rump goes forward we would have unrest, he may order that

[gratuitous]

2. We'll see if your confidence is well-placed or misplaced, NYT

I used to be confident that a lot of government agencies wouldn't or couldn't go along with clear abuses of government power dictated by the president. Right now, there are 416 kids sitting in detention facilities, despite a judge's order more than six weeks ago that they be reunited with their families. I also didn't think our law enforcement folks would go along with busting up those families in the first place, particularly without any sort of due process to ascertain the truth or falsity of their claims for asylum. I sure didn't think the government would sent parents back to the countries they were fleeing without a hearing and without their kids.

Granted, a lot of the abuses lately have been carried out on vulnerable persons, the sort of persons who don't get a lot of positive coverage from the likes of the New York Times and other elite media outlets. But maybe that abuse on the helpless was just a warm-up for abuses to be visited on more powerful persons and institutions? I wonder who will be there to speak up for the Times should it be the victim of a blatant abuse of government power?