Gonzales tells group worried about "overzealous prosecutors" to be patient

[Rose Siding]

Patience, Please
Defense attorneys representing clients that have been in the crosshairs of the Justice Department’s corporate fraud task force haven’t been impressed with the department’s new guidelines that are supposed to rein in what critics call “overzealous prosecutors.” But U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales flew to San Diego Thursday to step into the lion’s den at the American Bar Association’s White Collar Crime conference to ask for more patience with the department’s efforts to increase oversight of prosecutors.

In response to criticism from defense attorneys and some judges that new guidelines don’t go far enough, Gonzales says, “let’s see how it works. Policy is not static, policy changes.” But he says that prosecuting corporate fraud, including the options backdating cases now before the department, is important to maintaining investor confidence in the markets. –

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2007/03/02/patience-please/

[babylonsister]

1. Policies change? I hope that means AGs can change, too. nt

[Rose Siding]

2. What's really changing is the level of partisan loyalty in the prosecutors

[babylonsister]

By AGs changing, I meant replaced. And if the prosecutors are wising

up, realizing they're all expendable, that's a good thing.

[rman]

3. As though there can be such a thing as overzealousness in prosecuting criminals

Thanks to Gonzalez, soon they will be prosecuted, but not overzealously.

[johnlal]

4. Republicans and law enforcement

Republicans support law enforcement the same way they support our troops. (Not at all).

Just like our troops, the Republicans will use our Prosecutors and law enforcement officers to make political points, but if the spotlight turns on illegal activities of politicians or corporate principals, law enforcement and prosecutors are gutted mercilessly.

[Robbien]

5. Since when does the US Attorney General work for corporate defense attornies?

We pay the salary of the AG in order that that AG makes sure we are screwed.

[Mandate My Ass]

6. Gonzo to white collar criminals: "relax we got rid of the real prosecutors...

you can soon go back to looting with impunity."

[Supersedeas]

9. with White Collar criminals -- everything is negotiable with Al Gonzo

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

7. White Collar Crime Lobby....

:rofl:

[peacetalksforall]

8. What happened in the Swift Meat Packing raid? Were there any

others? Can we assume that the raid was an act to satisfy the immigrant haters and border security obsessed? There wasn't a sweep throughout the country. Was this a token raid. If so, why was Swift selected?

Is a raid like that an independent act within the FBI or INS or Homeland Security or would it be coordinated with the AG?