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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Subject: Re: Texiera on what the d's should do
Date: 03/25/25 4:14 PM
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No, it didn't. Whoever emailed her the information removed it from the secure SCIF.

She's the SecState.
Besides, according to you upthread, Marco Rubio needs to be in jail. Why no Herself, then?

No, it's not - or rather, it's not exclusively under the Executive Branch's purview.

Congress has very specific foreign policy roles. They ratify treaties. That's about it. Day to day foreign policy machinations are the exclusive purview of the exec branch.

That's why there exist laws and statutes governing classified information! Why the Congress has Foreign Affairs committees and Defense Committees in both Chambers!

Ooo, exclamation points! Do these people classify information?

Why we had all of those hearings on Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi!

Because Hillary! was and is a moron, and her State Department inadequately protected a US Ambassador and his station resulting in his death, the death of the security team and a US facility being overrun.

Foreign policy is not the sole and exclusive purview of the Executive Branch.

It absolutely is. The word you're looking for is "oversight", which Congress can do.
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