Even someone as lowly as an assistant U.S. attorney has to undergo a background check, and you're asked a series of very invasive questions, and you're expected to tell the truth and they're under penalty of perjury. And you're asked those questions so you can't be blackmailed or extorted.

If you can turn off certain categories of law, do you not also have the power to turn off all categories of law?

My daughter took Latin for three years; she still cant speak it.

Your memo is trumping a Congressional statute. You don't have the discretion on whether to follow the law or not.

I don't like bonuses for public services employees who do great jobs, like prosecutors or judges.

The notion that the First Amendment has no limitations whatsoever is balderdash.

While people are free to draw different conclusions from the facts, there should be no debate over whether the American public is entitled to have all of the facts.