List Of Americans Who Have Been Individually Spied On Will Soon Be Released "biggest disclosure yet"

[Leopolds Ghost]

179. Well then why isn't the Administration prosecuting Bush Admin wrong-doers for NSA abuse?

Probably because of the blackmail ring DUers and others spent 6 years telling us Karl Rove was running, mostly targeted at gay Republicans according to that one article. Anyone remember that post? I wonder what happened to that scandal.

On the larger question, no, the law doesn't apply equally to all Americans, according to Matt Taibbi in his new book on selective prosecution of the rich and powerful. Just look at the lack of prosecution of corporate crime on Wall Street.

Eric Holder was specifically chastised for asserting -- without precedent -- that there was a statutory difference between "breaking the law" and "committing a crime" and that only the latter sort of crime should be prosecuted. For instance, the Justice Dept. recently laid out a metric of how many people would be economically injured by a prosecution when deciding whether or not to prosecute corporate crimes.