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Topic: A Superb Appointment for SEC Chief |
A Superb Appointment for SEC Chief
PJ Media, by Andrew C. McCarthy
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Posted By:KarenJ1, 1/24/2013 7:43:26 PM
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| President Obama has nominated my former boss, Mary Jo White, to be the next chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He could not have made a better choice. I worked for Mary Jo for nearly a decade when she was U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York for nine years, from 1993-2002. It’s not enough to say she’s one of the best lawyers in the country; she’s also one of the best people I’ve been fortunate to know. She is whip smart and tough. She is also a model of integrity and rectitude. She will do what the SEC ought to do: aggressive enforcement against
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Comments:
Wow! Who would have thought that 0bama would ever be capable of making a "superb" appointment. If Mr. McCarthy says so I believe it. This is about the only thing I have seen that is good news lately.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Bpl40, 1/24/2013 7:47:25 PM (No. 9137540)
Somehow Zero´s appointments and all that gushing flattery just does not go together. There is always an agenda. Evidence to the contrary is too overwhelming. Watch and wait.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee, 1/24/2013 7:52:43 PM (No. 9137551)
Now, if she could just have people like Andrew McCarthy working under her.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
nonsense, 1/24/2013 7:54:52 PM (No. 9137554)
I don´t know Andrew, it is very difficult to discard, "I´m from the government, and I´m here to help".
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
iamtinman, 1/24/2013 7:56:39 PM (No. 9137557)
Okay Andy, I´ll take your recomendation as gospel, but if she messes up it´ll be on your shoulders!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Scobie, 1/24/2013 8:14:38 PM (No. 9137592)
Sorry Andrew - no sale.
A person of of integrity and rectitude, being whip smart, doesn´t go to work for the most corrupt President and Administration in History.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
crimea river, 1/24/2013 8:32:04 PM (No. 9137622)
If she´s a model of integrity and rectitude as Andrew says, she´ll resign in 6 months. An appropriate scandal will have been arranged behind the scenes.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
li´l Abner, 1/24/2013 9:02:04 PM (No. 9137663)
sounds like the next Supreme Court appointment when a lib touts the brains of another lib i run for cover
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
msjena, 1/24/2013 9:16:46 PM (No. 9137687)
She´s card-carrying member of the 1%. We´ll have to see if she´s a limousine liberal.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Not your typical New Yorker, 1/24/2013 9:35:38 PM (No. 9137710)
From Wicki- "White became Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York in December 1992, and in March 1993 was appointed by President Bill Clinton as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District. She is noted for having overseen prosecutions of John Gotti and the terrorists responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing chief among them Ramzi Yousef. After Clinton´s controversial last day presidential pardons, she was appointed by new Attorney General John Ashcroft to investigate Marc Rich´s pardon.( where did that ever go?)[1] She is currently chair of the litigation department at Debevoise & Plimpton.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
lazlototh, 1/24/2013 9:38:18 PM (No. 9137714)
I know people whom I trust and respect who worked for her and they trust and respect her. Maybe this is one of the two broken clock moments for our president.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
stencil, 1/24/2013 9:40:54 PM (No. 9137719)
Ditto, 11. Anyone here who has a complaint on cause against M.J.W. ought to lay it out.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
athina, 1/24/2013 9:41:27 PM (No. 9137720)
Or maybe he´s got something special in store just for her.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Morris Wanchuk, 1/24/2013 9:42:16 PM (No. 9137723)
´´Chicago U.S. Attorney Pat Fitzgerald, one of my two partners on the blind Sheik case and later the lead prosecutor on the embassy bombing case, is, bar none, the best prosecutor in the U.S., and probably the best lawyer (and certainly one of the best people) I have ever met.´´
Andrew C. McCarthy
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/81057/9-11-hearings/andrew-c-mccarthy
Fitzgerald is the guy who sought the conviction of Scooter Libby long after he knew Richard Armitage outed Valerie Plame, all the while the weasel Colin Powell said nothing.
In light of this, Mr. McCarthy´s endorsement of Mary Jo White has to be discounted.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
civilservant, 1/25/2013 8:54:41 AM (No. 9138264)
#11, as #9 asked........Where is the result of the Marc Rich investigation?
As it appears that there was a typical democrat ´sweep it under the rug´, I can say this about MJW:
If she is a democrat, she is corrupt and a bad choice for America.
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