Attorney General Eric Holder publicly rewrote the Fifth Amendment in 2012, declaring, in a veiled reference to al-Awlaki, "that a careful and thorough executive branch review of the facts in a case amounts to 'due process' and that the Constitution's Fifth Amendment protection against depriving a citizen of his or her life without due process of law does not mandate a 'judicial process'".
Congressional committees, by contrast, are invariably dominated by the majority party and rarely conduct thorough investigations of the executive branch unless Congress and the White House are controlled by different parties.
And, of course, you would need thorough control of the executive branch over the legislature, and over the judiciary, which otherwise might constitute powerful centres of resistance that could frustrate the media takeover.
At issue here is Congress's responsibility and authority to examine the misdeeds of the executive branch in a thorough manner -- with an eye toward legislation to make criminal those policies evidently adopted by a regional division of our F.B.I. to subvert the law in the name of the law.
The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration, which reportedly did a thorough investigation of the Upper Big Branch disaster, called it "entirely preventable".
First thing to go is anything truly superfluous, then a thorough job has to be executed, finessing the pruning branch by branch, twig by twig.
Generally, pruned branches are removed and thorough weeding is done after pruning.
This twofold redundancy and the robust phenotypes when both pathways are lost allows for thorough dissection of the two pathway branches, and provides a fertile avenue for future research into Pak pathway functions.
The Special Branch inquiry which ensued was thorough and impressive.
And because this act of Congress conflicts with established executive branch procedures and cuts short thorough consideration of issues that could bear on our national interest -- including our security, safety, and environment -- it has earned my veto".
