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Podcast: The Darrell McClain show
Episode: Why Words Are Cheap: How Congress Avoids Ownership While The Executive Makes Policy
Description: Send us Fan MailAccountability costs more than a press conference, and that’s exactly why our politics keeps choosing words over work. We open with the Caribbean boat strikes and map the legal gray zone where overlapping agencies, temporary guidance, and classified memos substitute for clear law. When Congress refuses to define roles and rules of engagement, the executive fills the vacuum, and the public gets euphemisms instead of answers. Action would assign ownership; chatter only spreads the blame.From there, we unpack Amnesty International’s harrowing report on detention sites branded with cutesy nick...