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A few sites are starting to get a story about how the "Domestic Terror Task Force" is being ressurected. '"But now, as the nature of the threat we face evolves to including the possibility of individual radicalization via the Internet, it is critical that we return our focus to potential extremists here at home," Holder said in the video broadcast.'
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Thexalon on Wednesday June 04 2014, @06:18PM
I blame Ford for pardoning Richard Nixon, thus codifying the idea that, as Tricky Dick said, "when the president does it, it is not illegal".
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Grishnakh on Wednesday June 04 2014, @06:27PM
From Wikipedia:
"After Ford left the White House in 1977, the former President privately justified his pardon of Nixon by carrying in his wallet a portion of the text of Burdick v. United States, a 1915 U.S. Supreme Court decision which stated that a pardon indicated a presumption of guilt, and that acceptance of a pardon was tantamount to a confession of that guilt. In 2001, the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation awarded the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award to Ford for his pardon of Nixon. In presenting the award to Ford, Senator Ted Kennedy said that he had initially been opposed to the pardon of Nixon, but later stated that history had proved Ford to have made the correct decision."
It was obviously very controversial, and you could argue it both ways. It does appear that it may partly have been done as a way to get Nixon to leave office quickly so the country could move on, rather than having him stick around and go through an impeachment process that would take a lot of time and cripple the country for a period of time, just like what happened when Clinton was impeached for the Lewinsky scandal: that took a whole year as I recall, a year during which almost nothing got done. Ford was probably trying to avoid that, and it worked; he moved on to other matters right away during his short Presidency. Yeah, it kinda sucks, but Nixon now has a legacy of one word: "Watergate".
(Score: 1) by Angry Jesus on Wednesday June 04 2014, @11:41PM
Yeah, I've come to see it more like that wallstreet bailout than protecting the guilty. He had to choose between punishing the guilty plus a whole lot of collateral damage or letting the guilty go in order to save everyone else.
In the case of the bailout thought, I think now that the crisis is past and the risk of collateral damage is greatly reduced, we ought to be going after those guys with any legal options still available to us.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Thursday June 05 2014, @02:42PM
The problem with the bailout, as I see it, is that it was a terribly way to do it. They gave the banks bailouts on the banks' terms. They should have had huge strings attached, a requirement that executives step down, something. Or they could have had the government seize control of the banks temporarily, and then break them up; I'm pretty sure that's been done before, if not here then in some other western nations. It wasn't a binary option. The Democrats instead just did what the banks told them to.
And you're right, they haven't bothered even exercising the remaining legal options in going after those guys. Another Democrat failure. And liberals keep telling me I should vote for these guys, as if that's going to change things.
(Score: 2) by Angry Jesus on Thursday June 05 2014, @04:17PM
Geithner argues that it was politically infeasible to put more strings on the bailout -- putting the blame on congress. I don't know if it is true, but he seems pretty aware of how unfair the bailout was.