Reich on the Dakota Pipeline

See his FB post here with the related article. The US indeed does have a lot of power over what happens here. The land on which the pipeline is to be built was Sioux property by treaty and then taken away by the US government. So it is now our land, meaning US citizens, being US property. The US Army Corps of Engineers (ACE), our employee, leased our land to a private company to build its pipeline. Now we have decided we don't want this stinking pipeline so it's up to the government, under the power given to them by us, to scrap this environmental and cultural disaster. Part of the cultural disaster is that it is sacred Sioux territory, and the looming environmental disaster is obvious. If the ACE had done the cultural and environmental impact study they were required to do, but didn't, this could have been averted. Now President Obama is considering rerouting the pipeline under his legal power, given it is US land at issue and the lease can be revoked. Given that information it is why we ask Clinton to take a stand on the pipeline, which she has so far failed to do.