minorkeys

Wtf is going on?

Gaining power often means loosening of morals and ethics, removing the constraints on behaviors in order to be capable of doing what is effective. All these people are in a club where they're all criminals because that's how power works.

The masses won't do shit.

So if everyone in power is in on it, who is there to hold any of them accountable?

Yes there are. They just don't make it through the gauntlet to reach power since they don't desire it to begin with.

I hated both lead characters.

If someone punched you in the face you'd be allowed to fight back. If the government dooms you to economic death, you're supposed to just accept it. America is incredibly cruel...

Likewise.

There is zero chance my brain knows what any of that actually means in practice.

So they can open an investigation on everyone they want to protect and give themselves the justification to redact any info in the files. Since nobody sees the unredacted files, nobody can confirm if the info is part of an investigation? I mean this is the kind of shit people with a brain were saying would happen when the division of powers and the roles of the branches aren't upheld.

How can service members be confident enough that the order is illegal, to refuse it, or believe adhering to their oath offers any protection from retaliation?