I have found a few interrelated changes. The efforts behind them are not exclusive to the present time, any particular party affiliation or the current political leadership in the USA.
But it seems very likely that during the last 8 years they have been intensified and are probably unprecedented in both intensity as well as degree of success.
No more unprecedented or novel is the complacency of the Congress, which through non-action as well as positive action has been part of bringing about these changes.
I have made an effort to make this a brief and comprehensive description of the problem and the responsibility, while still having objective evidence to back up my claims.
I have referenced very sparingly, to sources which in their turn use many credible sources and have conducted the extensive leg work I piggy-back ride.
I will be willing to provide additional sources and references if anyone wants to dig further.
In US today we have a situation in which there has been a shift in the relationship between the branches of government, and in extension in the checks and balances supposed to safeguard the governed.
Riding the wave of “national security” in the wake of the manifestation of a “national threat” there has been a successful effort by the Executive branch – often facilitated by non-action and positive action of Congress - to codify through action and precedence: exclusive power of the Executive to define threats, and to define and execute appropriate counter-measures [i]
Under this enhanced capacity to act with little need to engage and subject itself to the scrutiny and will of other branches, the Executive Branch developed a paradigm of preventive and preemptive action against such defined foreign and domestic threats [ii].
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