More total republican hypocrisy by the resident republican hypocrite.
Obama didn’t have free reign to do anything in America, this idea he was a dictator bent on taking over the nation is total republican BS. The Tea Party controlled Congress shut the US government down just because they could, if they had the slightest bit of evidence that Obama was breaking the law he would have been impeached in an instant.
Meanwhile the republicans just passed a bill that will in fact allow trump to fund a private police state and set up his own private army and while some senior republicans complained about it, they passed the bill anyways.
In a dramatic moment on the Senate floor Monday afternoon, as the upper chamber rushed a spending bill through to end the government shutdown, the top Republican and Democrat on the Intelligence Committee warned that the bill contains language that would kneecap Congress’s ability to oversee secret covert actions and surveillance programs. Their effort to amend the language was rebuffed. The intelligence community, in its latest grasp, has gone too far even for Richard Burr. The Republican chair of the Senate Intelligence committee has long been one of the Senate’s staunchest advocates for the intelligence agencies, leading the fight to reauthorize surveillance programs and fighting to bury the results of the Senate’s five-year investigation into CIA torture. But he took to the Senate floor Monday to warn that it would compromise Congress’s ability to oversee secret intelligence programs. “This language could erode the powers of the authorizing committee," Burr said. “Effectively, the intelligence community could expend funds as it sees fit without an authorization bill in place and with no statutory direction indicating that an authorization bill for 2018 is forthcoming."Want to see what the republicans are up to, just look at what they are accusing the Democrats of. That's how they roll and have for a very long time, blame the other guy for what you're doing then crush them and take over.
The provision, first reported by The Intercept, appeared in the House version of the spending bill last week and modified the 70–year-old-law that first chartered the CIA. It removed language requiring intelligence agencies to spend money according to Congress’s instructions, and replaced it with a provision that allows the agencies to move money around freely and without Congress’s knowledge. Blackwater founder Erik Prince has recently pitched the administration on a private intelligence force that would report directly to President Donald Trump and CIA Director Mike Pompeo.