Who do we want for Attorney General?

We've discussed Veep ad nauseum, but is there a best choice for AG? I want a few determined prosecutions. Okay, MORE than a few. I want trust busting, I want war profiteering trials, I want treason trials, I want so much more than I'll ever get.

Is there anyone we could trust and Kerry would appoint?

Jesse "the body" Ventura would be totally entertaining.

He'd take the shroud off Lady Liberty's "unsightly" mammary glands and put a Boa on her.

Hey here's a dumb question does someone have to be a lawyer to be AG. . .? I would imagine so.

Then again, with what John Dean has written about this administration, he'd be great as well but that would never happen since he's a former Repub and has been convicted.

Probably everyone'll say Edwards though.

http://www.oag.state.ny.us/bio.html

He has gone after crooks in New York with a lot of success.

I guess he could still be AG for some time, though.

but he has not come out and said that he is running, as far as I know.

I'm still waiting for one of those buggers to see the inside of a real prison.

And I'm speaking as one who helped put 13 of them in jail and then watched the big guys escape with a fine equal to a little more than two years' bonus.

None of the changes in NASDAQ or the NYSE have been anything more than cosmetic and some have made the situation worse.

He has fought for justice for as long as he's been around.

Of course, the AG in KS has had his law license lapse 3 times and has never actually tried a case in court. He has been a politician ever since he finished law school.

would be a good choice. He would love to reign in the corporate monsters we are plagued by. He has an excellent record of doing so. He is almost as much of a zealot as Asscroft, yet diametrically opposed in views.

His supporters would also come on board en masse.;-)

Former DA, Mich.

Former prosecutor.

Harvard law
Berkeley undergrad

taking the corporations to task, Spitzer of NY is a good choice too.

The son of an FDR era US attorney, Morgenthau, as Manhattan district attorney, prosecuted the BCCI case on evidence Kerry's committee unearthed. The Feds under Reagan-Bush wouldn't touch the case.


BCCI AND LAW ENFORCEMENT:

District Attorney of New York

Introduction

While the Justice Department's handling of BCCI has received substantial criticism, the office of Robert Morgenthau, District Attorney of New York, has generally received credit for breaking open the BCCI investigation.

It did so not on the basis of having any witnesses or information available to it which were not available to other investigators, including the Justice Department, and the Federal Reserve. Rather, District Attorney Morgenthau broke the case because he recognized BCCI's importance and significance as a case of global international organized crime, and devoted sufficient attention and resources to force out the truth.

As District Attorney Morgenthau testified, he made the decision to target BCCI once the bank's activities came to its attention because of his recognition that prosecuting a financial institution handling many millions in drug money could, in the long run, have as much impact on fighting crime as the hundreds of prosecutions his office was making every week against traffickers themselves in New York. ... (J)ust as illegal drugs are smuggled into this country, illegal profits must be smuggled out. The sums involved are truly staggering . . . the simple truth is that the wire transfer and the bank book are as much the tools of the drug trade as the scale and the gun. . . the nexus between drugs and money means that if we are to succeed in the war against drugs, we must be as vigorous in our prosecution of corrupt bankers as we are of street dealers.(1)

In going after BCCI, Morgenthau's office quickly found that in addition to fighting off the bank, it would receive resistance from almost every other institution or entity connected to BCCI, including at various times, BCCI's multitude of prominent and politically well-connected lawyers, BCCI's accountants, BCCI's shareholders, the Bank of England, the British Serious Fraud Office, and the U.S. Department of Justice. Each, while professing to cooperate with the District Attorney, in fact withheld information from the District Attorney and in some cases, impede, delay, or obstruct his inquiry for months. Ultimately, Morgenthau proved BCCI's criminality, not because of information or cooperation provided by other government agencies -- with the key exception of the Federal Reserve, there was almost none -- but because BCCI had left a trail of evidence of wrongdoing there for anyone with the tenacity to pursue it.

CONTINUED...

http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/09ny.htm

He has already proven to be very capable and has succeded in prosecutions of the Corp. crooks when the SEC, and current Justics Dept. haven't even tried!

We can't lose anyone from the senate or congress. It would be possible to chose a Governor because most of them are term limited anyway.
However I think he will ask someone who is no longer running for office. I agree that Edwards would be a good choice, but perhaps too conservative to go after the bush misadministration. I think Mario M Cuomo would make a great ATTY General. He has a great deal of liberal indignation.

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....it just seems like everytime Kerry's name is mentioned it is followed by McCain, so I thought I would add it.

As for AG, I like Nader or Kuci, because they would go after corporate crooks.

....although I think he's too comfortable in his lucrative Washington practice to want it.

Veteran of Watergate, also on 9-11 commission. He knows where the bodies are.