America, Meet Your New Dictator-in-Chief: The President's Secret, Unchecked Powers

As the New York Times reports, "Newly disclosed documents have shed a crack of light on secret executive branch plans for apocalyptic scenarios-like the aftermath of a nuclear attack-when the president may activate wartime powers for national security emergencies."

One thing is clear: in the event of a national emergency, the COG directives give unchecked executive, legislative and judicial power to the president.

According to documents recently obtained by the Brennan Center, there may be many more secret powers that presidents may institute in times of so-called crisis without oversight from Congress, the courts, or the public.

Deploying the same strategy it used with 9/11 to acquire greater powers under the USA Patriot Act, the police state-a.k.a. the shadow government, a.k.a. the Deep State-has been planning and preparing for such crises for years now, quietly assembling a wish list of presidential lockdown powers that could be trotted out and approved at a moment's notice.

Bear in mind that the powers the government officially asked Congress to recognize and authorize barely scratch the surface of the far-reaching powers the government has already unilaterally claimed for itself.

The powers amassed by each successive president through the negligence of Congress and the courts-powers which add up to a toolbox of terror for an imperial ruler-empower whoever occupies the Oval Office to act as a dictator, above the law and beyond any real accountability.

All of the imperial powers amassed by Barack Obama and George W. Bush-to kill American citizens without due process, to detain suspects indefinitely, to strip Americans of their citizenship rights, to carry out mass surveillance on Americans without probable cause, to suspend laws during wartime, to disregard laws with which he might disagree, to conduct secret wars and convene secret courts, to sanction torture, to sidestep the legislatures and courts with executive orders and signing statements, to direct the military to operate beyond the reach of the law, to operate a shadow government, and to act as a dictator and a tyrant, above the law and beyond any real accountability-were inherited by Donald Trump and passed along to Joe Biden.
 

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