@P J Evans: Yes or just close it down and send everyone home since they do nothing already.

I actually wondered if Corzine would be the October surprise, announcing an investigation, but then somehow ending the investigation with no charges after the election. Is that what you are suggesting here?

“But if not, then the timing will work out perfectly for campaign season: an interview with Corzine in the next few weeks–during election season–which will make DOJ generally and Preet Bharara specifically (who seems to employ an entire PR industry to claim he’s mean to banksters) look tough. At precisely the time people start paying attention, we’ll have bankster prosecution theater.”

Maybe Corzine would actually even agree to that as a way to try to clear his name in a very public way (though I don’t know one person who would fall for that).

There has to be some kind of bankster theater October surprise, right? This Bain subpoena could be it, I guess, but isn’t that too obvious? Diverting the attention from the usual Wall Street banks to evil private equity firms who can be blamed for sending our jobs to China sounds like a way to divert attention from trade deals and other policies that place no barriers in front of corps who gladly outsource and offshore jobs. There has to be some red meat bankster investigation. But after the well publicized appointment of Schneiderman to the redundant fraud task force by Obama, it seems too obvious to have him go after Bain right now even if he’s doing it as a state AG, not federal. But maybe they are panicking more than I thought.

When they made Eric Holder the AG, you knew that official impunity would be absolute. Holder got the AG’s job by lying to try and cover up the US government’s extrajudicial killing of Martin Luther King, http://www.thekingcenter.org/sites/default/files/KING%20FAMILY%20TRIAL%20TRANSCRIPT.pdf . He did it for the Clinton administration and then he was made. Holder is Uncle Sam’s mob lawyer: hits, heists, cons, meathook jobs, Eric Holder’s gonna get you off.

Many thanks for taking the time to gather the threads and connect the dots for us, especially on a Holiday weekend. this is why Bloggers have become so very very important to the world – they are able to break it down and make it comprehensible for their readers. very much appreciated.

0’s DoJ may be doing the bidding of its masters, but the NY State Attorney General is once again poking his nose into everybody’s business and will probably be pissing somebody off real quick like.

Inquiry on Tax Strategy Adds to Scrutiny of Finance Firms

The New York attorney general is investigating whether the nation’s biggest private equity firms have abused a tax strategy in order to slice hundreds of millions of dollars from their tax bills.

The attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, has in recent weeks subpoenaed more than a dozen firms seeking documents that would reveal whether they converted certain management fees collected from their investors into fund investments, which are taxed at a far lower rate than ordinary income.

Among the firms to receive subpoenas are Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, TPG Capital, Sun Capital Partners, Apollo Global Management, Silver Lake Partners and Bain Capital, which was founded by Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee for president.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/02/business/inquiry-on-tax-strategy-adds-to-scrutiny-of-finance-firms.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

NY AG probing equity firms, including Bain

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is examining whether firms have abused a tax strategy to avoid paying hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes. The practice involves converting some fees collected for managing accounts into fund investments, resulting in a lower tax rate.

Some tax experts believe the strategy is illegal.

http://news.yahoo.com/source-ny-probing-equity-firms-including-bain-154036294–election.html?_esi=1

@MadDog: The question arises as to whether Obama is still personally approving all US drone strikes in Yemen as has been reported previously?

If so, does that mean he signed off on the US drone strike today that killed 13 civilians as reported by the Yemen Post?

@MadDog: More OT – And speaking of US covert drone operations, this from Australia’s ABC News:

Revealed: US flew spy drone missions from Australia

“The United States flew highly classified Global Hawk spy drone missions from the Royal Australian Air Force base at Edinburgh in South Australia from late 2001 until at least 2006.

The operations were detected by a group of Adelaide aviation historians who had a member monitoring aircraft radio frequencies 20 hours a day.

With a wingspan greater than a 737 airliner and a $200 million price tag, the RQ-4 Global Hawk is the biggest, most expensive unmanned aerial vehicle to ever take to the skies…

[snip]

…Were the US Global Hawks targeting countries in our region? And why did the drones need to fly specifically to Edinburgh for “replenishment”, requiring such a huge detour from the international hotspots they targeted?

The Australian Defence Department refuses to comment.

Mr Daw thinks location was a key factor.

“I believe RAAF Edinburgh was chosen because it is close to but outside a major city, had hangars that could conceal the Global Hawk and back then, it was a quiet base,” he said.

American author Matthew M Aid, an analyst specialising in US intelligence operations in the post-9/11 world, agrees.

He says Global Hawk operations in the Asia-Pacific region have been based out of Andersen Air Force Base on the US territory of Guam – but only since 2010…

…”Almost every day one of the US Air Force Global Hawks based on the island of Guam can be found flying off the North Korean coastline taking pictures of targets deep inside the country that are more detailed than those coming from satellites.

“They fly at 60,000 feet, 75 miles off the North Korean coastline, taking grainy shots taken from a 45-degree angle…”

Criminal immunization is the cornerstone and most-successful part of ObamaCare. tee hee

I warned folks because I thought DOJ was conducting a credible review of the torture committed under the Bush Administration. Obviously, I was a chump.

Well, I too have been struck by the amount of credulity I have had at times with regards to the motives of some in the US government to investigate and prosecute government crimes. So I salute your courage in noting you were fooled. However, I don’t think I would have ever told the government they had accidentally released a name, as there is way too much secrecy already. Their mistakes are the bread and butter of any press that is trying to actually accurately report the truth, because the government’s job is to hide the truth.

I suppose I am still awash with angst over my own self-discoveries that the US so effectively covered up some pretty egregious crimes. Until the 1990s, there was the radiation experiments. Also, and in the US barely still publicized or understood, the existence of right-wing “stay-behind” units in Europe, working for NATO, but later used in false-flag terror attacks to justify crackdowns on leftists (GLADIO); or US backing of the right-wing Latin American dictatorships reign of terror (torture, assassination, stealing children!) on leftists and even the liberal class in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, etc. (CONDOR); and finally, the US deal with Imperial Japan’s biological warfare units, whose insane human experimentation included live vivisection of US POWs, providing immunity for war crimes if they’d turn over their research data to the US, and perhaps work for them as well (UNIT 731).

Faith in the US government? Hardly. One will do far better if you attribute the worst motivations to government, because you are far more likely to be closer to the truth than not in doing so. This is why we need a free, and much more importantly, an active and enquiring press.

The British press, btw, have been much better about reporting the Unit 731 material, and this because the US, uncharacteristically for their “special relationship” partners, cut the Brits out re the deal with Shiro Ishii’s Unit 731 crowd. The first real expose on the Ishii group and the US deal (signed by MacArthur) was by British journalists Peter Williams and David Wallace in the late 1980s. Even then, when Williams and Wallace’s book was published in the US, their chapter about US use of biological weapons during the Korean War was censored and left out of the US edition entirely. (Reminiscent of how one cannot buy David Hicks’ memoir of Guantanamo in the US!)

See “Japanese veteran admits vivisection tests on PoWs”, UK Guardian, 11/27/06 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/nov/27/secondworldwar.japan

After sedating the men by placing ether-soaked cloths over their faces, he was instructed to make an incision with a surgical knife and study their livers….

Mr Makino is one of several former Japanese soldiers who decided to reveal the truth about their country’s use of human guinea pigs before they die.

Unit 731, the imperial Japanese army’s notorious germ warfare unit, killed thousands of Chinese civilians and Allied PoWs at its sprawling complex in Harbin, northern China, from the late 1930s until the end of the war.

The victims, named “logs” by their torturers, were injected with typhus, cholera and other diseases. They died during the experiments or were executed to prevent them from talking about their experiences….

The US authorities secretly granted unit officials immunity from prosecution in return for access to years of research into biological weapons. Several former Unit 731 officials went on to enjoy prominent careers in medicine, academia and business, including its former leader, Dr Masaji Kitano, who headed Green Cross, once Japan’s biggest pharmaceutical company.

Secrets? So, will I tell the government if I find a name accidentally redacted? Hell no.

Typo, I think it’s spelled “impunity”, not “immunity”.