Eric Holder, Wall Street Double Agent, Comes in From the Cold

Rolling Stone ^ | Matt Taibbi

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Eric Holder has gone back to work for his old firm, the white-collar defense heavyweight Covington & Burling. The former attorney general decided against going for a judgeship, saying he's not ready for the ivory tower yet. "I want to be a player," he told the National Law Journal, one would have to say ominously.

Holder will reassume his lucrative partnership (he made $2.5 million the last year he worked there) and take his seat in an office that reportedly – this is no joke – was kept empty for him in his absence.

The office thing might have been improper, but at this point, who cares? More at issue is the extraordinary run Holder just completed as one of history's great double agents. For six years, while brilliantly disguised as the attorney general of the United States, he was actually working deep undercover, DiCaprio in The Departed-style, as the best defense lawyer Wall Street ever had.

Holder denied there was anything weird about returning to one of Wall Street's favorite defense firms after six years of letting one banker after another skate on monstrous cases of fraud, tax evasion, market manipulation, money laundering, bribery and other offenses...

Holder doesn't look it, but he was a revolutionary. He institutionalized a radical dualistic approach to criminal justice, essentially creating a system of indulgences wherein the world's richest companies paid cash for their sins and escaped the sterner punishments the law dictated.

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Discussing his Wall Street favors barely scratches the surface of what a corrupt and vile operation this man ran as Attorney General.

And of course, Rolling Stone and Taibbi completely gloss over the fact that Holder's actions were done with the complete approval of the Democratic Party and President Obama specifically. Holder worked directly for Obama, Wall Street was just their customer.

They'll also ignore Hillary Clinton's mountains of Wall Street money and her and her husband's long history of openly selling favors, at least until the election is over.

But Holder's not running for anything, so they can attack him now. Welcome to the party, pal.

[PGR88]

The Federal Reserve is a progressive institution, and a foundation of the leftist nanny state. You can not run 1000 progressive social schemes without massive debt, printed money, and manipulated interest rates. In sum - we have a centrally-controlled currency and financial system

Wall Street is part of that, and lives off the crony-capitalist distribution of debt.

No doubt then that Holder would find a place on Wall Street.

[wideawake]

Taibbi?

Really?

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The guys in the comments section certainly do not overlook Obama’s complicity.

[showme_the_Glory]

"I want to be a player playa,"

fixed it