Justice Department Report Slams Itself For Horrible Record After 2008 Financial Crash

[matthewf]

[leftyohiolib]

1. this u.s. is f-ing bizarro world

[valerief]

2. Wall Street is governed by the International Just Us System not the U.S. Justice System.

U.S. justice, like taxes, is for little people, as Leona Helmsley put it.

[truebluegreen]

3. Well, bless their hearts.

Cat out of bag, train left station, ship sailed...NOW they get it?

[dotymed]

4. WHY

aren't we ready "for revolution yet?"

President Obama, you have been my worst political mistake (by working and voting for your B.S.) that I have ever made.

Obviously, you do not care, I am not wealthy.
The wealthy are the only citizens who matter in todays Amerika.

[swilton]

5. The revolving door

between the Justice Department and Wall Street is certainly consistent between Holder's own career within government and his work for the corporate international law firm Covington and Burling. Having said that - it is hard to find out the details of his actual work from online sources...only that he has had a distinguished career of public service.

The overall argument presented here is that despite the window dressing disagreements between the two parties, the country is embedded in what Lofgren describes as the Deep State - a situation in which - despite the superficial bickering between both parties - ultimately, their raison d'etre is to serve Wall Street and the Military Industrial Complex (both tied at the hip)...despite the bickering and changes in administrations, perpetual wars continue and the income gap separating the fraction of the 1% and the rest of us continues to widen. In general, government serves the elites.

http://billmoyers.com/episode/the-deep-state-hiding-in-plain-sight/

[MannyGoldstein]

6. Lanny Breuer is laughing so hard he wet himself

But at $4 mil a year, he can afford new ones.

http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/lanny-breuer-cashes-in-after-not-prosecuting-wall-street-execs-will-receive-approximate-salary-of-4-million-dollars/17885-lanny-breuer-cashes-in-after-not-prosecuting-wall-street-execs-will-receive-approximate-salary-of-4-million-dollars

[markpkessinger]

13. So much for closing that "revolving door," eh? n/t

[Wilms]

7. Lanny

[PoliticAverse]

8. Will Holder be firing himself?... n/t

[NBachers]

9. Eric "Lost" Holder just needs to run down the clock to the end of the Obama Administration

He'll accomplish two things: No significant prosecutions will take place, and he'll be set for life with his grateful Wall Street co-conspirators.

Maybe soon we'll read another statement that he's really going to do something this time. Then it's back to sleep.

"Well, it's too late to start, now."

[jtuck004]

10. I'm sure the 7 million families that were foreclosed on are comforted, as well as the tens

of millions of our neighbors who will live the rest of their lives in poverty because you bastards didn't do your jobs.

If the Republicans do well in the next couple of elections, I do hope they send a note of thanks to this guy and his supporters. They will deserve the praise.

[KoKo]

11. Recommend!

[Jack Rabbit]

12. Holder is one of the most corrupt AGs in US history

Move over John Mitchell, Ed Meese and Harry Daugherty. Here's the man who said he couldn't prosecute banksters for fraud because they were just too big to fit inside a prison. Well, at least he didn't stretch his credibility by saying no one could find any evidence.

Still have that job lined up on Wall Street, Mr. Holder? Please say hello to Mr. Breuer when you get there.

[matthewf]

14. Thanks, everyone! n/t

[markpkessinger]

15. So why does Holder still have a job? n/t