Materials released by the Justice Department revealed that leading business and political figures had enduring relationships with the disgraced financier.
Materials released by the Justice Department revealed that leading business and political figures had enduring relationships with the disgraced financier.
Including finally admitting that we need to hold those who failed to do their duty in holding these people accountable just as accountable.
Obama was a good President in a lot of ways, sure, but he didn’t dismantle the surveillance state under which we are now living. He paved the way for someone like Trump by not wanting to look political in pressing his DOJ to prosecute the architects of the US extraordinary rendition and torture networks. Biden is culpable in handing the reigns to Merrick Garland and never replacing him with someone who was going to take this threat seriously.
Probably an unpopular opinion, but I think the people who frankly abdicated their duty to hold these people accountable are absolutely just as accountable because their lack of action led us down this dark path just as much as the horrible actions of those directly responsible.
It’s all about money, and the power having it brings. Nothing else matters anymore because that’s all the vast majority of the upper echelon care about.