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    I’m not defending his actions

    You’re defending his INaction by falsely claiming that there’s no credible evidence that he’s failed to act on. Amounts to the same thing.

    the law has enough loopholes that he can ignore those mountains and technically comply with the law.

    Does it, though? Or is it that the government is deploying a modified version of Wilhoit’s Law?

    Conservatism Zionism consists of exactly one proposition … There must be in-groups* whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups** whom the law binds but does not protect

    *the Israeli and US governments

    ** Palestinians and anyone speaking up for them

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      by falsely claiming that there’s no credible evidence that he’s failed to act on

      The law requires him to determine whether a report is credible, and then determine that the responsible parties are being brought to justice.

      There are a few reports that he determined were credible, and in each case he determined that the responsible parties were being brought to justice.

      So he is complying with the letter of the law, because the law gives no consideration to what anyone else finds credible. And unfortunately there is no mechanism to appeal what he determines, even if the entire rest of the world disagrees.

      Or is it that the government is deploying

      Leahy Laws give the president extra leverage in foreign policy when they want to use it. In practice, they don’t ever bind the president.

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        So what you’re saying is that the Leahy Law is worthless as long as Blinkin or another dishonest Zionist is the Secretary of State?

        Talk about the fox guarding the fucking henhouse! 🤦

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          So what you’re saying is that the Leahy Law is worthless

          It’s worthless for the goal you intend.

          But imagine the President actually wanted to pressure another country, like maybe Hungary. In that case, it could be very useful.

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            It’s worthless for the goal you intend

            Which is the goal the law was supposed to have as well.

            But imagine the President actually wanted to pressure another country, like maybe Hungary. In that case, it could be very useful.

            Except the US isn’t sending weapons to Hungary and is almost exclusively sending weapons to countries that are amongst the worst human rights violators in the world.

            To be worth anything, the law would have to constrain the administration rather than empower it to make unilateral decisions that run counter to international law.

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              Which is the goal the law was supposed to have as well.

              If so, it wouldn’t be the first time the spirit of a law was broken but not the letter.

              Except the US isn’t sending weapons to Hungary

              Of course they do, Hungary is a NATO power. In fact, those weapons were recently pressured by the Senate.