Guantanamo

(Community Matters)

NYT reporting: Financial firms are lobbying to have all manner of troubled investments covered, not just those related to mortgages. Invesment firms jockeying to oversee all the assets. Financial Services Roundtable says a wide variety of institutions should be able to “take advantage” of the bailout. The proposal has already been widened by Treasury to allow the Secretary to buy any manner of financial instrument. [paraphrased, not direct quote]

We should use the extra capacity at Guantanamo to house the lobbyists and financiers who try to exploit taxpayer’s $700B bailout fund.

Hope journalists will stay diligent about reporting who’s slipping in what language. Hope staffers will quietly pass on tips. Let’s use our expanded national security powers – wiretapping, email monitoring and the other undisclosed domestic spying technologies – to round up these financial terrorists, suspend habeas corpus and “interrogate” them at Guantanamo, or even extraordinary rendition. Special courts to be created, juried by bankrupted pensioners.