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The real story is the long-term trend since the survey began in Screenshot at Iran's Revolutionary Guard tortures female scholars behind prison walls Eugene Chudnovsky. On Christmas Eve, two female scientists began a hunger strike at the notorious Evin prison in Tehran. Fariba Adelkhah, a French Iranian anthropologist working at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, were arrested during research visits to Iran and were accused of espionage by the intelligence service of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps.

People probably understand or are at least vaguely aware of most of the things members of Congress do. They travel back and forth to Washington, take votes, hold fundraisers, attend committee hearings, write legislation, travel abroad on boondoggles — er, CODELs — et cetera.

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One of the puzzles of the life of crime is that it often takes more effort than getting and holding a real job. This came to my mind when I read this story from Las Vegas yesterday about criminals finding a way to utilize the credit cards they steal.

William Taylor's impeachment testimony shows the problem with Washington's permanent bureaucracy

The Associated Press quietly scrapped a headline after tying the United States to the deaths of innocent civilians aboard a passenger flight that was shot down by Iran. Georgia Rep. Doug Collins apologized for claiming that Democrats love terrorists following the killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani.

Pelosi to send impeachment articles to Senate next week Susan Ferrechio. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Friday she will begin sending the Senate two articles impeaching President Trump after stalling for weeks in an effort to force Republicans to call witnesses. The new president is clearly aware of the power wielded by civil servants, who swear an oath of allegiance to the U. Constitution, not to any president or administration. This was a clear warning to those serving in government to keep their heads down.

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There are, however, strong arguments for experienced, ethical civil servants to remain in government. Professional bureaucrats are needed to provide high-quality, evidence-based advice, to warn when administration proposals may be outside the law, and, if necessary, to blow the whistle when legal and ethical lines are crossed. There are numerous courses of action for federal workers who are asked to participate in actions they believe to be illegal or unethical or when they are aware of such actions taken by others.

Bureaucrats can challenge policies and practices while working from within. They can create a paper trail , producing a clearly written account of the problem in question and the actions taken to address it. Under the George W. This paper trail later helped to justify further regulatory action. Civil servants can use meticulous documentation to challenge policies or directives they deem unethical or unconstitutional, particularly when the orders are given verbally rather than in written form. Another option, albeit higher-risk, is for federal works to perform their duties at a foot-dragging pace.

As University of Chicago law professor Jennifer Nou notes , such slowdowns, unlike overt strikes, are less likely to attract attention. In the riskier category of dissent options, federal workers can leak information about pending or actual policies with journalists, activists and influential people on the outside.

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A senior official at the Bureau of Land Management in the Clinton administration described the leaking of internal documents to interest groups as a particularly effective strategy. I find this highly problematic on a number of levels. A caveat. I have been, for the past three-and-a-half years, a Defense Department employee.

First off, we must distinguish between orders that are illegal, immoral, and merely distasteful. Federal employees take an oath to the Constitution of the United States. They have a duty to disobey orders which, in their professional judgment, violate the Constitution or Federal law.

There are numerous channels for doing this in an above-board fashion and strong legal protections for those who do so in good faith, even if the courts ultimately find that the action in question passed legal muster. Federal employees are also citizens and human beings. They have every right to form moral opinions about matters of public policy. If they believe a policy to be unconscionable, they have a moral duty to refuse to carry it out.

If, however, said policies are deemed to be lawful, they have no right to use their position to stop it once their objections have been overruled. In many cases, it will be possible to get reassigned or otherwise escape being forced to carry out the order personally. If, for some reason, this is not possible, then their only recourse is to resign their post.


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In these instances, the bureaucracy is on the weakest ground. It is legitimate, in my view, to strongly protest decisions through official channels. What is not legitimate, however, is to engage in a conspiracy to slow roll the elected President of the United States in carrying out legal orders. These actions, in fact, are quite dangerous. After a series of scandals—and the ultimate assassination of a President! Since then, rather than filling the government with partisan cronies, only the senior-most officials who most directly influence public policy or speak for the President are replaced when a new administration comes to power.

That allows for the cultivation of expertise that has become even more vital as our society has grown ever more complex. Still, poll after poll shows that the American public is skeptical of the civil service. Government workers are perceived as overpaid, incompetent, and lazy. Moreover, Republicans in particular think that civil servants are overwhelmingly Democratic partisans.

Republican presidents have, for decades, been highly distrustful of some agencies in particular—the State Department, the EPA, the Department of Education, the Labor Department, and others—and not without reason. Democrats have similar concerns, also not without justification, of the Defense Department and the national security and law enforcement bureaucracies. I fear that open revolt by the bureaucracy against Trump policies will generate significant backlash, perhaps even enough to allow Trump to roll back civil service protections and reinstitute something like a spoils system.

That this reflects a combination of the artifact of a federalist system designed in for a vastly different political realty and perfectly legal if distasteful Gerrymandering of districts is unfortunate but not illegitimate. They have every right to govern according to the platform on which they ran, subject to whatever parliamentary maneuvering that the minority party can use to thwart them and, of course, the rulings of the Judiciary on the Constitutionality of said policies.

Absent an exceedingly unlikely removal of Trump through impeachment and conviction, this will remain true until either a biennial election changes the balance of power in the elected branches. It is very much the role of professionals in the bureaucracy to point out the potential follies of these policy choices based on centuries of institutional knowledge. Beyond that, however, their role is to carry out the wishes of the elected representatives of the people. In that climate, one checkbox left unchecked can end a career. I think you may be underestimating the effect of the Republicans spewing contempt and disgust at government employees for several decades.

The agency mission is ostensibly to serve the public. When you are forced to behave in a way that violates that mission, is your greater duty to the taxpayers and their grandchildren, or to your boss? Does it matter that political leaders get swapped out every few years? Should we allow a temporary boss to destroy that which takes eons to create?

But at the same time, as you yourself point out:. So what do we do? The following is my personal opinion, of course.

We have a President whose policies, even though legal, could pose a true risk to national security. We have to carry them out.