Post by duke on Feb 2, 2013 17:12:48 GMT -5
Jail the Bankers
By Bill Moyers and Matt Taibbi, Moyers & Company
02 February 13
BILL MOYERS: This week on Moyers & Company ...
MATT TAIBBI: The rule of law isn't really the rule of law if it doesn't apply equally to everybody. I mean, if you're going to put somebody in jail for having a joint is his pocket. You can't let higher ranking HSBC officials off for laundering eight hundred million dollars for the worst drug dealers in the entire world.
BILL MOYERS: And ...
VINCENT WARREN: There is not a country in the world that believes that the U.S. drone attacks that we are doing on countries that we are not at war with is the right and sustainable solution for us.
VICKI DIVOLL: All we have is the president interpreting his own powers and the limits on his own powers. And that is not the way it's supposed to work. We need more oversight.
BILL MOYERS: Welcome. This week, two United States senators insisted that the Justice Department come clean. Why are Wall Street's big banks not only too big to fail but too big to jail? Senators Sherrod Brown of Ohio, a Democrat, and Chuck Grassley of Iowa, a Republican, are outraged that the giant banks violate the law with impunity -- laundering money, cheating homeowners, falsifying information -- every trick in the ledger book. They sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder demanding to know why the banks get away with fines instead of jail time.
Maybe they had their anger roiled by "Frontline," Public Television's premier investigative series. The other night, "Frontline" broadcast a report called "The Untouchables," on how the Department of Justice allegedly has looked the other way for fear that prosecuting the banks would do even more damage to the American economy. <snip>
readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/15836-jail-the-bankers
By Bill Moyers and Matt Taibbi, Moyers & Company
02 February 13
BILL MOYERS: This week on Moyers & Company ...
MATT TAIBBI: The rule of law isn't really the rule of law if it doesn't apply equally to everybody. I mean, if you're going to put somebody in jail for having a joint is his pocket. You can't let higher ranking HSBC officials off for laundering eight hundred million dollars for the worst drug dealers in the entire world.
BILL MOYERS: And ...
VINCENT WARREN: There is not a country in the world that believes that the U.S. drone attacks that we are doing on countries that we are not at war with is the right and sustainable solution for us.
VICKI DIVOLL: All we have is the president interpreting his own powers and the limits on his own powers. And that is not the way it's supposed to work. We need more oversight.
BILL MOYERS: Welcome. This week, two United States senators insisted that the Justice Department come clean. Why are Wall Street's big banks not only too big to fail but too big to jail? Senators Sherrod Brown of Ohio, a Democrat, and Chuck Grassley of Iowa, a Republican, are outraged that the giant banks violate the law with impunity -- laundering money, cheating homeowners, falsifying information -- every trick in the ledger book. They sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder demanding to know why the banks get away with fines instead of jail time.
Maybe they had their anger roiled by "Frontline," Public Television's premier investigative series. The other night, "Frontline" broadcast a report called "The Untouchables," on how the Department of Justice allegedly has looked the other way for fear that prosecuting the banks would do even more damage to the American economy. <snip>
readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/15836-jail-the-bankers