{"id":5424,"date":"2012-07-06T16:17:08","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T00:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=5424"},"modified":"2012-07-05T16:18:02","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T00:18:02","slug":"ydemocracynow-zero-accountability-glenn-greenwald-on-obamas-refusal-to-prosecute-wall-street-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/06\/ydemocracynow-zero-accountability-glenn-greenwald-on-obamas-refusal-to-prosecute-wall-street-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"(DemocracyNow)  &#8216;&#8221;Zero Accountability&#8217;: Glenn Greenwald on Obama&#8217;s Refusal to Prosecute Wall Street Crimes&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DemocracyNow.org &#8211; Four years after the 2008 economic crisis, not a single top Wall Street executive has gone to jail. &#8220;These executives knew that they could take these huge risks and even break laws and pay no real price, and that&#8217;s what happened,&#8221; says Glenn Greenwald, author of &#8220;With Liberty and Justice For Some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful,&#8221; and a blogger for Salon. &#8220;It&#8217;s not just a travesty of justice that we haven&#8217;t punished them for past transgressions. The real danger is that we&#8217;re continuing to send the signal to the world&#8217;s most powerful financial actors that they don&#8217;t have any fear of criminal accountability when they commit these obvious crimes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Zero Accountability&quot;: Glenn Greenwald on Obama&#039;s Refusal to Prosecute Wall Street Crimes\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3U8qZGXtGJ0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5426\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=5426\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5426\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5426\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5426\" title=\"greenwald\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/greenwald.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/greenwald.jpg 265w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/greenwald-239x300.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5426\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Glenn Greenwald<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DemocracyNow.org &#8211; Four years after the 2008 economic crisis, not a single top Wall Street executive has gone to jail. &#8220;These executives knew that they could take these huge risks and even break laws and pay no real price, and that&#8217;s what happened,&#8221; says Glenn Greenwald, author of &#8220;With Liberty and Justice For Some: How [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5424"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5431,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424\/revisions\/5431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}