Internal Liability Officer and Covert Task Squad (Passed Apr 20 2009)

Internal Liability Officer and Covert Task Squad

With the enactments of this bill, an Internal Liability Officer (ILO) will be elected and thereafter pick a Covert Task Squad (CTS) to ensure that the Alliance government in the GIA adheres to certain standards produced by our legislation to and from this point. The rules of it’s formation and specific duties are listed below.

1)The ILO will be comprised of one nation .

2)The nominees for this position will be self–nominated (or otherwise nominated) and then approved by the Appointment Committee.

2a)If more than one nation is nominated, after the Appointment Committee vets the candidates, there will be an election open to the general public

2b) No more than three nations may run, and if more than three are nominated, the three separate committee chairs (Appointment, Domestic, Security) shall decide which three will run.

2c) The election will be decided based on a majority of nation voting.

2d) The ILO shall remain in office until the end of the current president’s term, and if uncontested at that time, shall continue to stay in office until the next term has ended or he/she is deemed inadequate (as determined by Part 1 of Section 4) by the Domestic Committee.

3) After Election, it is advised to the ILO to select any number of nations to appoint to his/her Covert Task Squad. These nations would keep their identity secret to ensure that they can perform all duties listed below without any risk of stoppage by other nations.

3c)The CTS would be the main intelligence gatherers, while the ILO directs them to find intel, and then interprets, presents, and takes action based on it.

When the Officer is elected, his/her duties (and those of the CTS shall be to..

1)Ensure that all members of the Alliance Bureaucracy are upholding all legislation to and from this point.

2)Ensure that corruption is not being indulged by any government officials.

2a) “Corruption“ is described as: Back deals, voter fraud, double voting, lawmaking with criminal intent, lawmaking with intent to seize power, dormancy, inappropriate use of granted powers, actions resulting in self–gain over allied benefit, discrimination towards fellow allied nations, and other actions deemed corrupted by discretionary standards.

3)Ensure that each position is maintained and contained position. With its intrusiveness into affairs being only relevant to its nature as determined by legislation.

4) Ensure that all officials are held liable for all actions they have taken part in (and in some cases, out) of office.

5) Ensure that all attempts to thwart necessary transparency and shirking of positional duties do not go unnoticed (or in some cases unpunished).

In order to ensure all of these points, the ILO is granted the following powers.

1)The ability to call for the impeachment of an official.

1a) Due process for this would be for the ILO to call for an impeachment of an official, provide a detailed report of why the nation is being impeached, and then a vote on such as determined by previous legislation, with the addition of the ILO having one vote in the process.

2)The responsibility to publish a detailed report whenever possible (and at least once every 14 days) as to comment on any and all questionable activities in the GIA’s government.

2a) If there is no illegal activity, this piece should be used actively as a useful dissent of the current government officials.

3) The Responsibility to provide alternative courses of actions when a Government official makes a suggestion that is deemed unconstitutional (meaning, not obeying legislation).

4) The power of tasteful discretion. The elected ILO will use this document and his/her own discretion to determine who is being unlawful, and any corruption in the GIA.

As the check, the ILO will be on watch by the Domestic Committee.

1) If the ILO’s power is becoming too great and is breaching corruption, the Domestic Committee is liable to submit a report to the Appointment Committee to propose Impeachment.

1a) Impeachment and conviction of the member would be possible with 2/3 of the Appointment Committee’s consent.