No Criminal Case Is Likely in Loss at MF Global

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/08/15/no-criminal-case-is-likely-in-loss-at-mf-global/

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From: barry levine 
Date: Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 9:12 AM
Subject: re: No Criminal Case Is Likely in Loss at MF Global
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To the Editor:

     In 2005, we learned of a pattern of illegal wiretaps of U.S. citizens in violation of the FISA statute of 1979 and of our Fourth Amendment. In 2007 we learned that men had been waterboarded while in U.S. custody. In 2011, we learned that hundreds of millions of USD had vanished from MFGlobal's investors' accounts. In each case, a crime is manifest. In each case, Eric Holder's Department of Justice has demurred to mount a prosecution. Instead, our DoJ is in court right now asserting a novel presidential power to circumvent citizens' guarantee to Due Process of Law.  Attorney General Holder is not an elected official. He serves at the pleasure of our president, to execute the president's agenda. The president of the United States has broad latitude to set that agenda, but can't escape the Constitution's charge to  "take care that the laws be faithfully executed".  If Attorney General Holder is too busy seizing novel presidential powers to do the job of enforcing existing laws, he should be replaced immediately.

Barry Haskell Levine