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posted by LaminatorX on Wednesday June 04 2014, @03:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the Lone-Gunmen dept.

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: 1) by Angry Jesus on Wednesday June 04 2014, @11:41PM

    by Angry Jesus (182) on Wednesday June 04 2014, @11:41PM (#51398)

    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

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Thursday June 05 2014, @02:42PM (#51698)

    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

      by Angry Jesus (182) on Thursday June 05 2014, @04:17PM (#51772)

      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.