If you're in trouble, fire the sheriff. If you are the mayor of the town, and you've done something wrong, fire the sheriff and replace him with someone just a little more friendly.
For the third Friday in the last six weeks, if I read the news correctly, President Trump waited till much of the nation's news staff had went home for the weekend to announce the firing of the State Department's inspector general, Steve Linick.
These are your internal watchdogs being fired. They are set in place by an American system of justice with checks and balances. Upend that system of justice, and you have a freer route to corruption. Five IGs have been fired by the Trump administration in the last six weeks.
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