The Justice Department will likely pull back from the investigations into alleged abuses at municipal police departments that were a hallmark of the Obama administration, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Tuesday in his first major speech as the nation’s top law-enforcement officer.
“The Justice Department has an absolute duty to ensure that police operate within the law...but we need...to help police departments get better, not diminish their effectiveness, and I’m afraid we’ve done some of that,” Mr. Sessions told a group of state attorneys general in Washington in a speech vowing to crack down on violent crime as a central part of his tenure.
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“Where you see the greatest increase in violence and murders in cities is [where] somehow, someway, we undermine the respect for our police, and make, oftentimes, their job more difficult,” Mr. Sessions said.
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“We are going to try to pull back on this, and I don’t think it’s wrong or mean or insensitive to civil rights,” Mr. Sessions said in his speech Tuesday. ”I think it’s out of a concern to make the lives of people, particularly in poor, minority communities...safer, happier.”
The one thing is true is the Americans did not try to 'win' Iraq, or Afghanistan. They tried to nation build. This is a much larger task. If the goal was to take out the Taliban and Saddam then the US won the wars, they removed the governments in charge.
They could be very successful in doing that in Iran but replacing the government with something better would lead to failure.
well, unless US foreign policy has shifted (and they may very well have with the civilian leadership), there is no If here...
this goes back to Colin Powell's "pottery barn" philosophy: you break it, you buy it...
That's why any military action has to be understood under that lens that you cannot leave that country until things are stabilized.... One can argue about Obama's schedule in withdrawing, but it was one of the major items on his platform, so pretty tough to not do it...
eventually, Trump is going to have a major problem imo, with the professionals (CIA, Military and FBI) in government... those guys, (comey notwithstanding) are not dogmatic nor are the ideologues... I think Trump will wear one them...
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Tomorrow marks the official grand opening of @TrumpVancouver The 69-story tower will be the first property to open in the city in over 6 yrs
Talk about fake news, cripes. And people are going to believe this.
I wonder what would happen if, in a city of 2+ million, one building opened in six years. I'm pretty sure it would be total anarchy and chaos worthy of a Mad Max movie, but what do I know.
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I wonder what would happen if, in a city of 2+ million, one building opened in six years. I'm pretty sure it would be total anarchy and chaos worthy of a Mad Max movie, but what do I know.
Well, for one, their hockey team would fall apart.
Some rumours that Trump might support some Gang of Eight style amnesty in tonight's speech. That will be the biggest test of the cultists yet, and early indications from just the rumour of it has them on edge. So we shall see.
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Better brush up on your schooling if you are flying into the US. Unless you are white of course.
http://www.recode.net/2017/2/28/1476...-by-us-customs
After landing, Omin waited for 20 minutes and then reached the front of the line, where a Customs and Border Protection officer asked him a series of questions. It was here that Omin realized that the job might be challenging, but getting into America could now be impossible. No one at Andela had prepared him for the new reality.
“Your visa says you are a software engineer. Is that correct?” the officer asked Omin in a tone the engineer described as accusatory. When Omin said it was right, the officer presented him with a piece of paper and a pen and told him to answer the following questions:
“Write a function to check if a Binary Search Tree is balanced.”
“What is an abstract class, and why do you need it?”
To Omin — who now hadn’t slept in more than 24 hours — the questions seemed opaque and could have multiple answers. While he is a skilled software engineer with more than seven years of experience, Omin later tells me that the questions looked to him like someone with no technical background Googled something like, “Questions to ask a software engineer.”
But when he handed his answers back after about 10 minutes of work, the official told him his answers were wrong. “No one would tell me why I was being questioned"
“He said, ‘Look, I am going to let you go, but you don’t look convincing to me,’” Omin said. “I didn’t say anything back. I just walked out.”
President Donald Trump called on the Department of Homeland Security to "create an office to serve American victims" of crimes committed by immigrants.
In his address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night, Trump said the office will be called Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE).
"We are providing a voice to those who have been ignored by our media, and silenced by special interests," Trump said.
This office, Trump said, would support the "victims of crime," though he made no explanation of why the targets of crime perpetrated by immigrants should receive the support of a new federal government agency that apparently excludes the victims of crime committed by U.S. citizens.
Trump has made several, sometimes unsupported claims related to crime committed by immigrants, and used that rhetoric as a pretext for his restrictive immigration policies.
While Trump cites specific instances of violence committed by immigrants, many studies have found that, in general, immigrants are actually less likely to commit violent crimes.
Trump gave a great speech last night. Far and away the best speech he's given. The dems who wouldn't get off their hands when things such as job creation and ending ISIS were mentioned, should be embarrassed and ashamed. When Van Jones comes out and says it was exactly the type of unifying speech the country needed to hear, it must have resonated.
Hopefully (although I won't hold my breath) this is the beginning of a president who truly acts like one.
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Trump gave a great speech last night. Far and away the best speech he's given. The dems who wouldn't get off their hands when things such as job creation and ending ISIS were mentioned, should be embarrassed and ashamed. When Van Jones comes out and says it was exactly the type of unifying speech the country needed to hear, it must have resonated.
Hopefully (although I won't hold my breath) this is the beginning of a president who truly acts like one.
Trump proved last night that he could read from a teleprompter without going too far off the rails. He does not deserve accolades for that.
His actions have spoken much, much louder than any speech he could have given, and his actions are not that of a "unifying" leader. Democrats owe him absolutely nothing. If Republicans can shout "liar" at Obama, Democrats don't owe Trump applause for reading a script.
He's getting tons of praise for the moment with the Navy SEAL's widow--she wouldn't be a widow if he wasn't so painfully incompetent, but that doesn't stop him from milking the moment for his own political gain. The whole show was appalling, and for anyone to act as if this is going to be a change in tone, when literally every single step he's taken as President proves otherwise, is laughable.
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White House seems to think Van Jones and others are simply suckers.
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Some sources in WH are frankly surprised at how pundits are warming to the speech. Say Trump has not changed, no big shift in policy coming.
Trump gave a great speech last night. Far and away the best speech he's given. The dems who wouldn't get off their hands when things such as job creation and ending ISIS were mentioned, should be embarrassed and ashamed. When Van Jones comes out and says it was exactly the type of unifying speech the country needed to hear, it must have resonated.
Hopefully (although I won't hold my breath) this is the beginning of a president who truly acts like one.
It certainly was much better than normal. But the bar has been set pretty low. I also am optimistic that we can have a better path forward after a speech like last night. But he will actually have to follow up and continue to act like an adult. If he goes back on twitter and starts acting like a petulant child, then the speech was entirely worthless.
Also, who cares if the dems didn't stand up? Its not a popularity contest to see how many people you can get to applaud. The dems have seen Trump spew garbage out of his mouth for a year or two. All of a sudden they should forget everything and jump behind Trump because he has a couple of positions they quasi agree with?
EDIT - also, something that I heard pointed out this morning... For 8 years, Republicans were against Obama spending on things like infrastructure. Yet now they are totally behind Trumps idea to do the same thing? I have no idea if people did or didn't stand up when the idea was presented, but I doubt you will be harping on conservatives anytime soon for their hypocrisy.
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Some suckers are going to buy the south park "I can change!" routine eh? Good luck with that one kids. See you in 48 hours when more awful things are being pushed through by Republicans and the petulant man-child president has another tantrum.
