"Zero Accountability": Glenn Greenwald on Obama's Refusal to Prosecute Wall Street Crimes

DemocracyNow.org - Four years after the 2008 economic crisis, not a single top Wall Street executive has gone to jail. "These executives knew that they could take these huge risks and even break laws and pay no real price, and that's what happened," says Glenn Greenwald, author of "With Liberty and Justice For Some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful," and a blogger for Salon. "It's not just a travesty of justice that we haven't punished them for past transgressions. The real danger is that we're continuing to send the signal to the world's most powerful financial actors that they don't have any fear of criminal accountability when they commit these obvious crimes."

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[ufo5147]

No one for President 2012!

[4teepee]

The politicians are co-conspirators with the Wall Street criminals. Both major political parties are bought off with campaign contributions.

[TheQueenKat]

Excellent interview!

[Redfingers]

Corporations are legal entities designed to shield employees and investors from any criminal liability.

[belfasta]

why would obuma jail someone who pays him

[newsradiohead]

Amy Goodman & Juan Gonzalez 2012!

[goemon9378]

wall street bankers 2012

[zenloki024]

Secede from the Union in 2012!

[zenloki024]

exactly. if you vote for the lesser of two evils, you still end up with evil.

[TRA2theAM]

lets all vote for ourselves simultaneously in groups...!

[Richard Carpenter]

At lease he admits it was a mistake.