Good luck with Holder! He won't prosecute torturers but he will sure f&*k with leakers that make the O whitehouse look bad!

Remember, you don't bite the hand that feeds you.

another brilliant piece by Matt Taibbi.one of our best and finest investigative reporters, he spares us the BS and gets down to the nitty gritty.

thank you for caring, Matt. We need you now more than ever

Rip the bastards a new one!Give us a reason to believe that "too big to fail" is not so!Make them pay back every cent that was used to bail them out! If Holder won't do it then he better resign or be charged with aiding and abetting. This is a chance for Obama to restore some measure of faith in him personally and in his administration. Failure here will be political suicide for the Democratic Party-and should be! if prosecution is launched the Repugs better get out of the way or it will be their necks in the noose as well!

So how much will Goldman have to pay back and excuse, will it be with compound interest? After all, this is WE THE PEOPLE's tax dollars we're are talking about.

It's time for our justice system to apply to the wealthy as well. No matter how much their high paid lawyers babble, justice and jail time will prevail. Oh.... and by the way on financial regulation, the Canadian govt has always held the reins. And thus their banks and nation have bounced back from the worldwide downturn a lot better than ours.

Who will prosecute? Those who should are surely in bed with these criminals. The Stupremes are certainly in bed with them (look at their 2010 decision to give corporations "first amendment" rights so that we now have the "best govt $ can buy)

Maybe the "sub committee" can force a lower court to hold a trial? Of course, a class action law-suit .... would take the case to the Stupremes and look what happened with the WalMart Class Action ...

You still have the right to vote: In 2012 don't vote for anyone subsidized by BANKS, Koch brothers, OIL, OIL, GE and "you get the picture" -- bc they will take away your right to "bargain" "have your day in court" and will contribute to eating up the environment " and BTW "don't vote on rhetoric about gay rights, guns, abortion (no Fed $ goes to abortion bc of the Hyde Bill) -- for these platforms will not help you "feed your family" etc

When a "federal prosecutor" does his job, he or she had better be damned sure he or she touches base with whomever he/she REPORTS TO on the job approves filing charges.

A many an investigator has referred a case for prosecution, only to be told the docket is too full now, or the case lacks jury appeal, or some i has not been dotted in the investigation, or some t has not been crossed, or some such perpetual put-off.

The list of excuses for not "going after" someone is long and vaporous. And whatever supervisor, or regional manager, or director of an agency does not come up with a put-off in some cases, can find himself looking for another assignment or appointment, as fits the instance.

And how would this commenter know such things. He would tell you, but he would have to change his name and to into hiding.

Blogging is safe, as long at nobody who doesn't know first hand is going to believe what a blogger says, anyhow.

I think it's becoming clear why the sex scandal case against Eliot Spitzer suddenly came out of the woodwork when it did.

Remember Goldman Sach's was the biggest contributor ever to a presidentail compaign;(900,0 00) to Obama. This is why Goldman Sach's is so comfortable with doing all of this criminal stuff.

Goldman believes that Obama and the justice department will run inteference for them. Obama lulls you into a false sense of security and then he slices you up with lies, half truths, fein helplessness, and then serves you up to his corporate masters.

As much as the working class, middle class, and poor have been beaten around in his two years in office, he fails to fight for us like he does his daughters.

Matt, another amazing, stunning piece of investigative journalism from you, and making extremely complex information comprehensible to the layman, and bitingly caustic all at once, is nothing short of sublime. In my book, you are to the Great Financial Meltdown of 2008 what Seymour Hersh was to Viet Nam and Abu Ghraib.

Goldman Sachs is an evil monolith of greed, amorality and ruthless capitalism...we'll see if the Justice Department isn't just another division of Goldman. I have low hopes. But I thank you for your brilliance and your commitment to speak truth to power in an era when that is vital.

What a short or rather absent you all have. It was Reagan who had Congress eliminate all bank regulation laws which FDR established to prevent another crash like the one in the late 30's. Goldman Sachs is nothing but "one of them". You have to go back and remember the dozens of Banks which gave away it's stockholders money to "retiring executives" at the tune of hundreds of millions to X and Y. All of that money was collected from the sale of useless mortgages all over the world; the money lies in Fiscal Paradises and NO ONE dares go after it ... memories of JFK! If the people in the USA don'¡t wake up, it will happen again!!! Money is the root of all evil.

I recently read Mr Taibbi's article in RS, detailing, among other things, the SEC's relationship with DOJ. SEC has no prosecutorial powers but can recommend cases worth prosecuting.
DOJ not only prosecutes the case, they provide the
defendants with a strategy to minimize their culpability (in fact, an admission of guilt isnt required) and financial redress. Mr. Taibbi points out that many of the SEC and DOJ lawyers are later hired by the companies they had previously prosecuted/regulated. I applaud Mr. Taibbi's efforts and hope they bear fruit. Criminals belong in jail.
Taibbi is required reading in this household