Hold Fast

Glenn Greenwald has a post on the ACLU suing the Obama administration to find out what legal arguments and doctrines were used to justify the assassination of Anwar Al-Awlaki, an American citizen who was never charged with a crime. Greenwald notes throughout that the administration has used anonymity granted by a compliant press corps to [...]

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Yves Smith: If the Administration had really changed its stance on bank misdeeds, you’d see it putting the settlement on hold until the investigations led by Schneiderman had been concluded. The fact that they mortgage settlement is proceeding on schedule says this the Administration is, as before, trying to cover up its bank-favoring actions with [...]

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Yesterday I was somewhat sour on the chances of the mortgage fraud task force that Eric Schneiderman will co-chair of succeeding in producing positive results. I think the reasons for caution remain, but David Dayen reports on a number of new facts which could make positive outcomes much more likely. In short, Dayen and his [...]

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I’d really like to be enthusiastic about the announcement of a new federal investigatory task force looking at the foreclosure crisis. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, much like Elizabeth Warren, has done enough to show his commitment to holding Wall Street accountable for their crimes to trust that his motives are good and his [...]

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Originally posted at AMERICAblog Yesterday I posted on the news of a pending settlement between the federal government, some state Attorneys General and the nation’s five largest banks around robosigning and other foreclosure fraud issues. The deal looked really bad and there was strong opposition coming not only from large progressive organizations, but a core [...]

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I know it’s gauche for progressives to care about silly things like the rule of law, transparency, and opposing torture or war crimes, but nonetheless it’s worth pointing out Glenn Greenwald’s look at three parallel cases which demonstrate the sad state of equal justice in America today. Greenwald puts side by side the case of [...]

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Andrew Sullivan had a piece in The Daily Beast last week which got a lot of coverage and sparked a great deal of debate about how to assess the Obama presidency. In short, Sullivan thinks Obama’s governance style is one which may not please either liberal or conservative partisans, but will wear well and includes [...]

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There’s lots of talk about the pending deal between what used to be 50 state Attorneys General and the nation’s five largest banks around what started out around robosigning, but seems to have expanded to broadly include foreclosure fraud and securities fraud. It looks like the Obama administration is on the verge of announcing a [...]

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The half-hour documentary on Mitt Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital, When Mitt Romney Came To Town, is a huge story this week. Watch it – it’s devastating and the interviews of workers who lost their jobs after Romney’s Bain came in and broke their companies are heart-breaking. “When Mitt Romney Came To Town” is the [...]

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Glenn Greenwald has another must-read post in the ongoing debate about the ways in which Ron Paul may or may not be better than President Obama on particular issues and the subsequent mania which these ideas bring forth within many parts of the liberal blogosphere. Greenwald is kind enough to quote a passage from a [...]

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