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By "no bank is too big to jail" he of course means "any bank can get away with LITERALLY ANYTHING for the cost of a small fine".

HSBC knowingly laundered money for Al Qaeda, the people who did 9/11, and knowingly did the banking for the drug cartels that have killed 80,000 people in Mexico. Their fine was $1.6 billion, in a year in which their profits were above $20 billion -- less than the standard corporate tax rate.

Top executives who knew that this was happening forwent part of their bonuses, meaning they earned only a few million dollars that year, instead of several million.

Let me repeat: THEY HELPED DO 9/11, GOT PAID BILLIONS FOR IT, AND PAY NO PRICE. Think about that the next time you see some Iraq War widow. What did she get?
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Balls! He can say whatever he wants w/o meaning it - Obama does it all the time. Actions speak louder than words.
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I don't like Eric Holder. For man who called us a "nation of cowards" regarding a dialogue (or lack there of) on race in America, he certainly talks to the camera alot but not to me. This is fatuous.
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Exactly how many Wall Streeters went to jail for causing the housing bust and subsequent financial crisis?

Oh, that's right... Zero.

Good job standing up to corporate criminals, Holder!
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Prove it, Holder.
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@6 Whole international corporations are headquartered in PO boxes in Maryland and Connecticut, a jail cell is orders of magnitude larger than that.
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It's too damned bad Holder is "too big" to go to jail — he's the biggest crook of all.
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I finished Taibbi's new book The Divide. Very interesting, if a little uneven. He's good at making the deadly-boring details of financial regulation readable but even better when describing the inverse of too-big-to-jail that poor people suffer in this country.
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Holder's the best thing about the Obama administration. I wish he'd run for President. Everyone who derides him should think about just what a Republican would have done -- and not done -- in that office.
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I wish Holder (and ultimately Obama) would have the stones to muzzle or fire DEA head Michele Leonhart for opposing the hands off approach to states that have legalized marijuana and obstructing attempts to remove the schedule 1 classification of marijuana.

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Too bad government is also too big to go to jail.

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Just like murder by drone, domestic spying and the war on terror the program was started under Bush and expanded under Obama.

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