2016 Postmortem

Octafish

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39. How Corrupt Is the American Government? See For Yourself...

Sat Apr 2, 2016, 11:52 AM

Apr 2016

Where the money is.

How Corrupt Is the American Government?

See For Yourself

Posted on January 5, 2016 by WashingtonsBlog

Government corruption has become rampant:

Senior SEC employees spent up to 8 hours a day surfing porn sites instead of cracking down on financial crimes

Nuclear Regulatory Commission workers watch porn instead of cracking down on unsafe conditions at nuclear plants

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A high-level Federal Reserve official says quantitative easing is “the greatest backdoor Wall Street bailout of all time”

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Congress recently told the courts that Congress can’t be investigated for insider trading

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The Bush White House worked hard to smear CIA officers, bloggers and anyone else who criticized the Iraq war

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