Why Can’t DOJ Investigate as Well as the Hapless Senate? - EmptyWheel

Why Can’t DOJ Investigate as Well as the Hapless Senate?
By: emptywheel
Saturday May 14, 2011 5:25 am

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There’s a lot to loathe about the current incarnation of the Senate, that elite club of millionaires where legislation goes to either get rewritten to serve corporate interests or killed.

What does that say about DOJ, then, that the Senate is doing such a better job at investigating crimes? In just one month’s time the Senate has produced two investigations that have left DOJ–and the SEC and FEC–looking toothless by comparison.

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The NYT also cites several legal experts attributing DOJ’s impotence to embarrassment over the Ted Stevens trial (without, at the same time, wondering why William Welch is still at DOJ acting just as recklessly, only this time against whistleblowers and other leakers).

Several of these reviews of DOJ’s failure to act wonder why the understaffed Senate Ethics Committee or Levin’s Permanent Committee on Investigations–again, this is the hapless Senate!–managed to find so much dirt that the better staffed DOJ and regulatory bodies did not.

But Taibbi really gets at the underlying issue.



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More: http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2011/05/14/why-cant-doj-investigate-as-well-as-the-hapless-senate/

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wait, :shrug: I do believe it's mostly the same people.

Him to give legal representation to death squads, you realize where his DOJ will stand on issues.

And it ain't with us.

this administrations record when it comes to the financial meltdown when dealing with the other side.

One would think this administration understands that we the people would actually like to see some $3000.00 suit wearing mofo actually
going to jail and not club Fed,

Ah hell, I'm livin in a dream world.