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mick063

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24. Here is why we will never prosecute the 1% thieves for past or future crimes in my lifetime:
Fri Jul 5, 2013, 04:26 AM
Jul 2013

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 country’s 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 nation’s 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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Oh hells yes. Fuck Wall Street! n/t Fire Walk With Me Jul 2013 #1
I get the impression that the Obama administration would rather go after every jaywalker and yurbud Jul 2013 #3
Heh...it would appear that way, wouldn't it? n/t Fire Walk With Me Jul 2013 #9
Yes! leftstreet Jul 2013 #2
How "aggressive" are they actually being about Snowden? Recursion Jul 2013 #4
They apparently put on enough pressure to force the landing of a President's aircraft. 1-Old-Man Jul 2013 #5
The plane had a mechanical problem Recursion Jul 2013 #6
bullshit. HooptieWagon Jul 2013 #10
Possibly the president of Bolivia can shed some light on the subject. nt. sibelian Jul 2013 #13
Now that is just inaccurate. morningfog Jul 2013 #19
Lol! sabrina 1 Jul 2013 #23
Denial is not a good state to get stuck in. think Jul 2013 #26
+1 treestar Jul 2013 #16
a president does not usually "go after" his peers nt msongs Jul 2013 #7
He should. He won't...they're his buds. HooptieWagon Jul 2013 #8
Obama shouldn't stop at Wall Street banksters and Cheney meow2u3 Jul 2013 #11
good point yurbud Jul 2013 #12
Voted Other - because this is a Push Poll jazzimov Jul 2013 #14
Leave it up to experienced prosecutors treestar Jul 2013 #15
Too late for that. Memories fade, fabricated stories confirmed, and things get shredded. Luminous Animal Jul 2013 #17
Great question, yurbud. Octafish Jul 2013 #18
k/r Good question. nt limpyhobbler Jul 2013 #20
Maybe if Warren was POTUS we'd see a return to law, ethics and regulation Corruption Inc Jul 2013 #21
Yeah, maybe burnodo Jul 2013 #25
I guess our right wing "Democrat" friends took the day off yurbud Jul 2013 #22
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
Point taken mick063 Jul 2013 #31
I'd be happy if he went after the banksters as aggressively as he goes after MMJ clinics hobbit709 Jul 2013 #27
"and" not "or" n/t Greybnk48 Jul 2013 #28
Wish there was an option Caretha Jul 2013 #29
good point yurbud Jul 2013 #33
Barack Obama? flvegan Jul 2013 #32
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