Matt Taibbi on Obama’s appointment of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to co-chair a committee to investigate mortgage and securitization fraud:
I would feel better about a committee that not only didn’t have a White House flack and a failed/compromised SEC enforcement chief sitting on it, but had nobody with any ties to Wall Street at all. The argument for them would be that we need someone with expertise on the committee, but I’m not buying it. I’d rather see Schneiderman hole up in an abandoned warehouse with ten vice detectives from someplace like Detroit or Miami. And Charles Martin Smith, if they can get him.
Hear, hear. And yes, for the record, anytime time you use Charles Martin Smith a la “The Untouchables” to make your point, I automatically agree with what you’re saying times ten.
