Under Jurisdiction Of

Magically something has turned into something else. Both fb and Google and that is not unexpected knowing who the owners are (not Zuckerberg, uh-ho, or Brin or whoever, the're just pretty faces, well, the prettiest still nerdy they could came up with) are plainly targeting me hijacking my searches and links to searches and make the results different. This is new never happened to me before.

I tried to put both on fb and g+ a link to a google search on therms "under jurisdiction of". The results today were varying.

Here on blogger (still Google) one can control the html part of the post so there is no way they can do it. This is what i was looking for:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22under+jurisdiction+of%22

What fb and google were putting in my post after parsing my link. They lost the closing quote mark, so they created a pretext to bring up a different definition, that is usually on the second place in the dictionaries and very little used in practice.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22under+jurisdiction+of

Operating together, what they did was creating a new issue over the one i was writing about. It is a very common Asian ninja undercover guerrilla tactic. You complain, they give you some more so your first complaint will fade by comparison with the second. I believe this could only come after a long tradition of bureaucracy which indeed reigned in one of the most bureaucratic states since times and that was Chinese Empire and subsequent Japanese one.

The complaint i had in mind before those attempts was about this part of the definition in Wikipedia. "Operating under the jurisdiction of the US Department of Justice, the FBI is also a member of the U.S. Intelligence Community and reports to both the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence."

(But actually the initial complaint i was thinking to write about on both networks was about the jurisdiction of the FBI in investigating the President of the United States of America. It started with Nixon. Now again with Mueller and Trump. So we go back deeper on several layers of complaints.)

Keeping in mind Montesquieu's "Principle of separation of powers in state" let's look again at the phrase from Wikipedia's definition for the FBI.

I believe they use the second less common definition of jurisdiction here because the're trying to cover the inconceivable concealed in the same phrase. FBI actually has double subordination. One to the Department of Justice and one to the Director of National Intelligence (a person or an institution, not sure from what i see in Wikipedia).

There is a phrase on the page of Department of Justice that says. "The department is headed by the United States Attorney General, who is nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate and is a member of the Cabinet."

But maybe we should start with the Cabinet. Cabinet of course is not the storage shelves with little doors everyone has in the kitchen. It is i think the most important part of the executive (branch of the government, according again to Montesquieu, but who is this French guy Montesquieu to tell us what and how a government should be).

It is if you prefer the ensemble of all Departments of the executive branch (of the 3 branches of the government) but actually it is what other countries call "government" that is again all the departments or ministries of the executive. In this wonderful diagram again put for public to use freely in Wikipedia we can follow the blue arrows. "Appoints and controls". In the United States, the Cabinet, that is Departments is controlled by the President. (BTW i didn't know the President controls the Supreme Court).


By 111Alleskönner - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, Link

As we can see in the list of Head of Deparments aka members of the Cabinet, the Justice Department does not have a secretary. It has an Attorney General. Whatever.

About Department of Justice. Department itself is not the whole of judicial power in this country. It is not even an umbrella for the whole of it. The real judicial power and embodiment of that part of Montesquieu type of  state lays to the courts which are not subordinated to the Department of Justice.

Department of Justice is actually an umbrella only for several state agencies "The Department of Justice administers several federal law enforcement agencies including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The department is responsible for investigating instances of financial fraud, representing the United States government in legal matters (such as in cases before the Supreme Court), and running the federal prison system.[3][4] The department is also responsible for reviewing the conduct of local law enforcement as directed by the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994." These agencies are all prosecuting bodies so we can see Justice Department more like a prosecuting body than a defense attorney or the whole branch of the power of Judicial.

However. The head of the Justice Department aka Attorney General, according to its definition in Wikipedia is "is the chief lawyer of the United States government."

Who is head of United States Government? And especially why every state institution is called differently in the US then in any other country?

Parliament in Europe is Congress in the US, Govern in Europe is Cabinet in the US, etc.

I believe part of it was to break free with the British system so Parliament from the beginning was called Congress and Government was called Cabinet which in Britain is only a number of select ministers. Ministers where called secretaries and ministries became departments. Historically states where British colonies, they probably could not agree in the beginning to simply unite them in a country so US became a federation. This way they didn't have to change anything in the state's governments. The function of governor was kept including the name. Since United states is made of ...states, they could not use the name state describing the federal state institutions state so they became US government. Which is really confusing for foreigners.

However. Compared to leaders of other countries the US President has enormous powers basically controlling all the three branches of US government by cumulating the function of a head of state with that of head or leader of the Cabinet. He can block any law by not signing it. Congress can overturn  his veto only with a 2/3 majority, however that is hard to achieve. He can dismiss any member of the Cabinet including the Attorney General. He nominates the judges for the Supreme Court.