Glenn GreenwaldWashington likes to threaten the people over whom they exercise power.
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Washington likes to threaten the people over whom they exercise power. Washington liked to threaten those who listened to him, as well as those who did not. He liked to remind those he threatened that there were others behind them with the power to carry out his threats.
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