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 <title>Yeah, I do  think there is a great degree of unwarranted and unconstitutional secrecy in the  dealing with the executive branch over the last 7 years and I think that was  allowed to occur because the Congress basically shirked its role as a coequal  branch of government and became a rubber stamp for the executive branch and so  the system did not work but during the past year after the Democrats have taken  control there has been whole lot more of oversight, hearings and investigations  into various processes and functions of the executive branch and what we have  been met with in many cases is a brick wall they don&amp;rsquo;t want to cooperate  particularly with respect to the Justice department don&amp;rsquo;t want to cooperate and  so we have had to issue subpoenas and certain matters already before the courts.  I think legislative branch has reclaimed its rightful coequal branch of  government and as long as you have the three coequal branches of government then  there is really no need to diminish the power of the executive branch, but  unchecked the executive can run rough shod over people rights and that is  exactly what has happened during the last seven and half years.</title>
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 <dc:creator>Robin Wright</dc:creator>
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