Prosecutions

Beyond that, DOJ's remarkable embrace of tainted prosecutors and selective prosecutions is best explained by its culture: Democratic and Republican DOJ leaders alike benefit long-term (including in their lucrative post-government careers) by coddling over-zealous and politically motivated fellow prosecutors, and then using superficial internal investigations to whitewash whatever happened. ❋ Andrew Kreig (2010)

DTM at 49: “The basic obstacle to prosecutions is political: many people are still deeply loyal to the relevant criminals because they were high-profile members of a recent Administration, and so prosecutions would set off a huge political firestorm.” ❋ Unknown (2010)

The EPA was notorious during the Bush years for a steep decline in prosecutions against big polluters. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Now again, for pure political posturing, they're using their power to knowingly deflect public attention away from their failures-past and present-to engage instead in prosecutions they already know to be baseless but for the rogue excesses present in every organization. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Attorney General ERIC HOLDER (Department of Justice): I know first hand that advancing public corruption investigations and prosecutions is extremely difficult work. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The basic obstacle to prosecutions is political: many people are still deeply loyal to the relevant criminals because they were high-profile members of a recent Administration, and so prosecutions would set off a huge political firestorm. ❋ Unknown (2010)

An effort by the European parliament to limit the reach of anti-piracy prosecutions is threatening to derail the European Union’s ambitious plans to revamp telecommunications legislation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The biggest political problem that might force the new administration to proceed cautiously with prosecutions is the potential for blowback if and when some unjust victim of the gulag takes vengeance for his maltreatment by killing some Americans after his release form that gulag. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It previewed the 2001 Patriot Act by allowing secret evidence to be used in prosecutions, expanding the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and wiretap laws, creating a new federal crime of “terrorism” that could be invoked based on political beliefs, permitting the U.S. military to be used in civilian law enforcement, and allowing permanent detection of non-U.S. citizens without judicial review. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But your point about potential prosecutions is taken because not everyone is afforded the luxury to operate their porn stores in one of the bluest of states. ❋ Unknown (2007)

President Obama’s decision thus far to avoid such prosecutions is a pragmatic and bipartisan one in a time of war, as is your principled refusal to criticize him publicly in his first months. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But, like I said upthread, the reason there ain’t going to be any torture prosecutions is because there are a lot of moral monsters about, not all of whom are named ‘Cheney’. ❋ Unknown (2010)