New rules of regulation raise serious questions

Peter Noren, Trade Talks Live - On January 8, the Trump administration dropped a bombshell that most of the mainstream media is treating like a footnote. They’ve created a new Division for National Fraud Enforcement at the DOJ. Now, on paper, fighting fraud sounds great. Nobody likes a scammer. But here’s the kicker: this new Assistant Attorney General doesn't report to the Attorney General like every other lawyer in the building. They report directly to President Trump and Vice President Vance....

The Department of Justice is supposed to have a firewall between the guys with the badges and the guys in the Oval Office. When you melt that firewall down, law enforcement stops being about "the law" and starts being about "the mission." Former DOJ officials are already sounding the alarm that this direct supervision compromises criminal independence.