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In reply to the discussion: Should Obama go after Wall St. or Bush/Cheney war criminals as aggressively as Snowden? [View all]mick063
(2,424 posts)24. Here is why we will never prosecute the 1% thieves for past or future crimes in my lifetime:
Last edited Fri Jul 5, 2013, 04:58 AM - Edit history (2)
An old Link from 2008
WASHINGTON The Federal Bureau of Investigation is struggling to find enough agents and resources to investigate criminal wrongdoing tied to the countrys economic crisis, according to current and former bureau officials.
Brendan Smialowski for The New York Times
Robert S. Mueller III, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, speaking before a House subcommittee in April.
The bureau slashed its criminal investigative work force to expand its national security role after the Sept. 11 attacks, shifting more than 1,800 agents, or nearly one-third of all agents in criminal programs, to terrorism and intelligence duties. Current and former officials say the cutbacks have left the bureau seriously exposed in investigating areas like white-collar crime, which has taken on urgent importance in recent weeks because of the nations economic woes
The Robber Barons must perpetually scare us with terrorism so that FBI agents that would normally investigate white collar crime, will instead be diverted to fight terrorism.
Stop and think about it. Bin Laden is dead. Al Qaeda is a shadow of it's former self. Our President hung his campaign hat on his wonderful success "winning" the war on global terrorism.
Yet we must spend 6 billion fucking dollars on a data collection center in Utah.
Why?
Quite simply.....to divert FBI agents from Wall Street.
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Should Obama go after Wall St. or Bush/Cheney war criminals as aggressively as Snowden? [View all]
yurbud
Jul 2013
OP
I get the impression that the Obama administration would rather go after every jaywalker and
yurbud
Jul 2013
#3
They apparently put on enough pressure to force the landing of a President's aircraft.
1-Old-Man
Jul 2013
#5
Too late for that. Memories fade, fabricated stories confirmed, and things get shredded.
Luminous Animal
Jul 2013
#17
Maybe if Warren was POTUS we'd see a return to law, ethics and regulation
Corruption Inc
Jul 2013
#21
Here is why we will never prosecute the 1% thieves for past or future crimes in my lifetime:
mick063
Jul 2013
#24
I think it is less a matter of resources than will. If you weighed who did more damage to the US
yurbud
Jul 2013
#30
I'd be happy if he went after the banksters as aggressively as he goes after MMJ clinics
hobbit709
Jul 2013
#27