Tag Archives: accountability

Transparency

Posted on by Amy aka RTJ

Finally some creeping legitimacy for the fucking retards.* According to Adam Serwer in Mother Jones, congress is considering 2 measures to mandate disclosure of internal memos outlining the legal justification for killing (by drone) Americans overseas without charge or trial. Problem is that the potus has yet to acknowlegde that such a memo exists. The [...]

Bank Error in Your Favor

Posted on by Amy aka RTJ

Robert Scheer in The Nation reports that Citigroup last week agreed to pay a $285 million fine to settle charges of “misleading investors”.  Chairman of Citi at the time was none other than Robert Rubin.  Formerly of Goldman Sachs, before he became Uncle Bill’s treasury secretary  and pushed the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act through congress. [...]