Outgoing government ethics chief: "US is close to a laughingstock", recommends new powers for OGE

[Bob The Knob]

[url]https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/us/politics/walter-shaub-ethics.html[/url]
[quote]Actions by President Trump and his administration have created a historic ethics crisis, the departing head of the Office of Government Ethics said. He called for major changes in federal law to expand the power and reach of the oversight office and combat the threat.

Walter M. Shaub Jr., who is resigning as the federal government’s top ethics watchdog on Tuesday, said the Trump administration had flouted or directly challenged long-accepted norms in a way that threatened to undermine the United States’ ethical standards, which have been admired around the world.

“It’s hard for the United States to pursue international anticorruption and ethics initiatives when we’re not even keeping our own side of the street clean. It affects our credibility,” Mr. Shaub said in a two-hour interview this past weekend — a weekend Mr. Trump let the world know he was spending at a family-owned golf club that was being paid to host the U.S. Women’s Open tournament. “I think we are pretty close to a laughingstock at this point.”[/quote]
[quote]Mr. Shaub recommended giving the ethics office limited power to subpoena records, as well as authority to negotiate prohibitions on presidential conflicts of interest; mandating that presidential candidates release tax returns; and revising financial disclosure rules. But he acknowledged that some of these proposals would be difficult to pass in Congress.[/quote]

[EcksDee]

The US is "close to" a laughing stock in the same way the ocean is "close to" being wet.

[Sableye]

pretty fucking obvious if you're a democrat that the ethics rules are broken but for the party of bengazigate, clintongate, clintongate II, uraniumgate, and more they somehow suddenly think the ethics rules are just fine

[Joey Skylynx]

[QUOTE=Sableye;52478573]pretty fucking obvious if you're a democrat that the ethics rules are broken but for the party of bengazigate, clintongate, clintongate II, uraniumgate, and more they somehow suddenly think the ethics rules are just fine[/QUOTE]
Rules do not exist when your party is in, dontcha know?

[ImUnstoppable]

Democrats suck too, and are very corrupt. It is must that thanks to a Trump being so damn bad at his job, we get to see corruption right there in front of us

[Curls]

[QUOTE=EcksDee;52478481]The US is "close to" a laughing stock in the same way the ocean is "close to" being wet.[/QUOTE]

Trump would reply to this with some rambling about 'yeah it really is wet isn't it' or something