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Hours After Frontline’s Exposure of Lanny Breuer’s Protection of Wall Street, It Was Leaked that He Is Resigning
25 January 2013
(LPAC) — Deputy Attorney General for the Criminal Division Lanny Breuer has been at the center of protecting Obama for many of his most egregious, impeachable crimes. Most notably, he covered up the "gun walking" operation called Fast and Furious, in which Obama and his cohort Attorney General Eric Holder provided weapons to Mexican drug cartels, in exchange for drug money laundered into the banks of Obama’s Wall Street sponsors, and most likely into the Obama campaign coffers. Breuer also ran the protection racket for the bankers themselves, refusing to bring criminal indictments against a single one of the crooks who broke the banking system and then looted (and continue looting) the taxpayers through Obama’s hyperinflationary bail-out policies. Now Breuer is reported by the Washington Post to be resigning, although no date is given for the resignation. The timing is most interesting, since, less than 24 hours before the leak of his resignation, Breuer was targeted in a one-hour Frontline show called The Untouchables, in which Breuer wildly defends his refusal to bring criminal prosecutions against any Wall Street bankers for the massive security crimes which brought down the nation’s economy. Frontline’s Martin Smith told Breuer in the interview: "We spoke to a couple of sources from within the Criminal Division, and they reported that when it came to Wall Street, there were no investigations going on. There were no subpoenas, no document reviews, no wiretaps.... These sources said that at the weekly indictment approval meetings there was no case ever mentioned that was even close to indicting Wall Street for financial crimes." Breuer openly acknowleged that he was primarily worried about the banks, not the law: "If I bring a case against institution A, and as a result of bringing that case there’s some huge economic effect, it affects the economy.... If it creates a ripple effect so that suddenly counterparties and other financial institutions or other companies that had nothing to do with this are affected badly, its a factor we need to know and understand." Breuer argues in the interview that the bankersters couldn’t possible be guilty of a crime, since expert lawyers and accountants had checked everything! "In those kinds of transactions," Breuer said, "for the most part, you had the most sophisticated bankers and lawyers and accountants as consultants. So for me to bring a criminal case, I have to show that the very sophisticated lawyers on Wall Street who worked on this, the very sophisticated accountants, that either they were in on the crime, or frankly, what is reality is that in these disclosure documents out there, there was enough disclosure that we cannot bring a criminal case." It is not reported where Breuer will find his next job, but it is of note that one of his previous jobs was at the Washington office of the Covington & Burling law firm, which represents some of the biggest Wall Street banks. At his side at Covington was AG Eric Holder. Watch The Untouchables on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE. |