{"id":20458,"date":"2015-04-20T09:27:42","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T13:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=20458"},"modified":"2015-04-20T09:27:42","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T13:27:42","slug":"president-obama-lies-about-loretta-lynch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/04\/20\/president-obama-lies-about-loretta-lynch\/","title":{"rendered":"President Obama Lies About Loretta Lynch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>New economic Perspectives<\/em> has the article <a title=\"New economic Perspectives\" href=\"http:\/\/neweconomicperspectives.org\/2015\/04\/lanny-breuers-defense-of-not-prosecuting-hsbc-and-its-officers.html#more-9364\" target=\"_blank\">Lanny Breuer\u2019s Defense of Not Prosecuting HSBC and its Officers<\/a> by William K. Black.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have been researching the HSBC frauds for a column I am doing about Loretta Lynch, the U.S. Attorney who refused to prosecute HSBC or any of its officers for the largest and most destructive money laundering and anti-terror finance sanctions-busting in history and continues to fail to do so even though her own appointed monitor at HSBC reports that HSBC is not complying with the sweetheart deal Lynch gifted them and even though she is now aware (of something she should have been well aware of for years) that senior HSBC officials continued to violate the laws to aid the wealthy and criminal evade taxes while HSBC\u2019s lawyers were negotiating the sweetheart deal with Lynch about other mass felonies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See the <em>CNN<\/em> article and video <a title=\"CNN article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/04\/17\/politics\/obama-loretta-lynch-embarrassing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Obama rips Senate over Lynch nomination: &#8216;This is embarrassing&#8217;<\/a>.\u00a0 Speaking about Loretta Lynch, he describes her as<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A woman who everybody agrees is qualified<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So who is William K. Black, chopped liver? (As we used to say in my family.)\u00a0 What&#8217;s with CNN not making any comment about this statement?\u00a0 It looks like Obama is taking a page from the Koch brothers book, repeat the big lie loudly and often and who is going to question you?\u00a0 He even has people like Bernie Sanders promoting the lie.\u00a0 Rachel Maddow is promoting the lie.\u00a0 And here I am (along with William K. Black) shouting &#8220;The emperor has no clothes&#8221;\u00a0 Is anybody going to notice?\u00a0 Have you taken notice?\u00a0 Has Elizabeth Warren taken notice?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New economic Perspectives has the article Lanny Breuer\u2019s Defense of Not Prosecuting HSBC and its Officers by William K. Black. I have been researching the HSBC frauds for a column I am doing about Loretta Lynch, the U.S. Attorney who refused to prosecute HSBC or any of its officers for the largest and most destructive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20459,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20458\/revisions\/20459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}