No, you cannot. If your power is entirely superficial then you are not an evil dictator overlord. You might aspire to be one, or maybe even believe yourself to be one, but if your power is entirely superficial you are not at the levers of power at all.

Again, you can wield power, or you can distract attention away from the person who does, but you cannot do both. There are, of course, other options, but these two completely contradictory options that smitty and others are constantly trying to pin on the same person cannot both be true.

If they use them in criminal investigations the usage eventually becomes part of the public record when entered into evidence. Using them for search and rescue ought to be non-controversial enough. "National Security" is of course the grey area, though there's a fair amount of overlap between National Security and criminal prosecutions, for offenses like espionage or terrorism, so a lot of that use would eventually make it into the public record as well.

You're quite correct. No one is responsible for anything anymore--except conservatives.

Racism, idiocy; idiocy, racism.

A clown, however, is not. A clown exists only to distract from power, never to wield it. And a failure of a clown is not a ringleader; he is only a clown that gets gored by the bull or allows the audience to see behind the curtain.

You cannot simultaneously wield power and distract attention from someone else wielding it, even if you have multiple personalities.

"And just for fun, he says 'Get a job'"

That's just the way it is, some things will never change.

I commend to you a little more research prior to making that judgement of the CoS. I can't speak for all of the Federalist Papers, but I'm confident that the CoS leaders have read deeply in them.

Hoping we don't get WWIII by assuming a fetal position--yeah, that's a swift call.

I mean, I hold a Masters in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College, with an emphasis in the Law of Armed Conflict. I've also been around the block a little bit. I'll buy off on your "press releases hardly ever reflect what goes over secured communications" observation.
Nevertheless, the geo-strategy is as plain as the dumb on your Congressman's face: Russia is on the march, and the POTUS is in the fetal position. There is precisely shag-all going on, in a preparatory sense, to prepare any sort of response. Oh yeah: the BLM thinks it found Crimea somewhere in Nevada.

Deadliest school masacre yet in the U.S. featured only one gun, and that was incidental:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...

Which is no defense of anything in particular except perhaps caution about what laws can actually prevent in the face of determined malice.