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Showing Original Post only (View all)Elizabeth Warren Asks Newly-Chatty FBI Director to Explain Why DOJ Didn’t Prosecute Banksters [View all]
David Dayen
Sep. 14 2016, 9:00 p.m.
Like a lot of other Americans, Sen. Elizabeth Warren wants to know why the Department of Justice hasnt criminally prosecuted any of the major players responsible for the 2008 financial crisis.
On Thursday, Warren released two highly provocative letters demanding some explanations. One is to DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz, requesting a review of how federal law enforcement managed to whiff on all 11 substantive criminal referrals submitted by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC), a panel set up to examine the causes of the 2008 meltdown.
The other is to FBI Director James Comey, asking him to release all FBI investigations and deliberations related to those referrals. The FBI typically doesnt release investigative details about cases that DOJ chooses not to pursue, but Warren pointed out that in releasing information about presidential candidate Hillary Clintons use of a private email server in July, he had pretty much shattered that precedent, and set a new one.
You explained these actions by noting your view that the American people deserve those details in a case of intense public interest, Warren wrote to Comey. If Secretary Clintons email server was of sufficient interest to establish a new FBI standard of transparency, then surely the criminal prosecution of those responsible for the 2008 financial crisis should be subject to the same level of transparency.
In other words, if Comey can spend hours relating FBI decision-making about State Department emails, he can do the same for the activity that made millions jobless and homeless.
https://theintercept.com/document/2016/09/14/warren-letter-to-doj-ig/
https://theintercept.com/document/2016/09/14/warren-letter-to-fbi/
https://theintercept.com/2016/09/15/elizabeth-warren-asks-newly-chatty-fbi-director-to-explain-why-doj-didnt-prosecute-banksters/
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Elizabeth Warren Asks Newly-Chatty FBI Director to Explain Why DOJ Didn’t Prosecute Banksters [View all]
kpete
Sep 2016
OP
Over 50% of Dem delegates wanted the status quo. What are you gonna do?
LiberalLovinLug
Sep 2016
#18
Yep, and some other things making sounds or racket; but back to the point of the OP w/ a question:
Jeffersons Ghost
Sep 2016
#25
This is what you get when it's US policy to promote capitalism globally.
Spitfire of ATJ
Sep 2016
#12
I'm gonna go with "what is, they were too busy trying to catch pot growing grannies", Alex?
Warren DeMontague
Sep 2016
#29