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In reply to the discussion: I find it interesting ... [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)Only holds true if you ignore how he took an oath of office and he swore to defend and protect the US Constitution. (The fact that many others also never upheld this oath, including Mr George W Bush, Mr Cheney et al does not mean that Holder should be able to ignore that oath.)
It only holds true if you ignore his record, aptly spelled out in various Matt Tiabbi Rolling Stone articles, as to who Eric Holder was with regards to the Presidential pardon of one financial criminal extra- ordinaire Marc Rich. Knowingly keeping quiet about bribery is an offense.
It only holds true if there was no "quid pro quo," and since I doubt that Mr Holder made tape recordings of all his dealings with Wall Street executives, we will (In the words of Janet Reno) "probably never ever know." But many of us suspect. As it stinks to high heavens that the Big Time Heist of the American Economy was perpetuated by the Major Fianncial Players, and yet only one of them that we can name, Mr Madoff, was ever jailed. While Holder looked the other way.
Meanwhile in Iceland, the Icelanders' counterparts to America's Big Executives now sit in jail. So it could have been done, if Mr Holder had been working for the American people, and not for Big Finance.