Thom Hartmann: Is Atty General Holder Obama's Alberto Gonzales?

[thomhartmann]

Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio, joins Thom Hartmann. President Obama gave a huge speech at the National Defense University in which he described in detail his policies towards drones, Guantanamo Bay, and counterterrorism in general. Is this the beginning of the end of the War on Terror?

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[Jack Rabbit]

1. Every president who has had an incompetent or crooked AG has failed

Harding (Daugherty was in the administration's scandals up to his eyeballs), Nixon (Mitchell was as much a crook as Nixon), Reagan (Meese was a walking conflict-of-interest who had to recuse himself from half of DoJ's investigations during his tenure), Bush the Frat Boy (Gonzales was involved in dismissal of perfectly good federal attorneys in favor of incompetent hacks who were more likely to prosecute ginned up against Democrats, and that after presneting the White House with dubious legal arguments in favor of torture), and now Obama (Holder).

In addition to the assault on press freedom that his wiretapping policies poses and has done this so routinely that he can't remeber how many wiretaps have been authorized on his watch, Mr. Holder has failed to prosecute fraud by Wall Street banks. Lanny Breuer, Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division, made one lame excuse after another for not prosecuting the Wall Street fraudsters who crashed the world economy, collected huge bailouts from the tax payers and then went back to the same vile and fraudulent practices that brought the world economy down in the first place. Breuer came to the Justice Department from the Wall Street firm Covington and Burling, where he gave legal assistance to the Wall Street criminals he didn't prosecute, and to where he returned in March so he can continue giving his services to Wall Street bankers, just like he did during his tenure at the Justice Department.

I don't know if Breuer broke any laws during his tenure at Justice, but as far as I'm concerned, regardless of whether he actually broke any laws, he's corrupt. Money doesn't talk, as Bob Dylan said, it screams.

What does this say about Eric Holder? As the Attorney General, he's responsible for everything Breuer did -- or didn't do -- when he was Holder's assistant.

[rhett o rick]

2. k&r thanks for posting.