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Congressional Incompetence in Its Trump-Shooting Investigation

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TUESDAY, JULY 23, 2024
It is therefore most especially in the present democratic times that the true friends of the liberty and the greatness of man ought constantly to be on the alert, to prevent the power of government from lightly sacrificing the private rights of individuals to the general execution of its designs. At such times, no citizen is so obscure that it is not very dangerous to allow him to be oppressed; no private rights are so unimportant that they can be surrendered with impunity to the caprices of a government.

– Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America (1835)

HORNBERGER’S BLOG
July 23, 2024
Congressional Incompetence in Its Trump-Shooting Investigation
Members of Congress are besides themselves over the testimony of Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle regarding the near-assassination of former president Trump. They are upset that Cheatle was unable to provide them with adequate explanations as to what appears to be incompetence at best and willful blindness, conscious indifference, or complicity at worst on the part of the Secret Service. But if incompetence …
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