Glenn Greenwald Blasts government help in B of A's war on WikiLeaks & Anonymous

[Joanne98]

Glenn Greenwald launches a scathing attack on the double standard at work shielding the Bank of America's private war on WikiLeaks, and Anonymous, that made Greenwald into a target. Glenn examines the merging of corporate and government corrosion, effectively resulting in privatizing the Rule of Law.

The leaked campaign to attack WikiLeaks and its supporters .
Hunton & Williams was recommended to Bank of America's General Counsel by the Justice Department -- meaning the U.S. Government is aiding Bank of America in its defense against/attacks on WikiLeaks.
Especially (though by no means only) in the worlds of the Surveillance and National Security State, the powers of the state have become largely privatized. There is very little separation between government power and corporate power. Those who wield the latter intrinsically wield the former. The revolving door between the highest levels of government and corporate offices rotates so fast and continuously that it has basically flown off its track and no longer provides even the minimal barrier it once did. It's not merely that corporate power is unrestrained; it's worse than that: corporations actively exploit the power of the state to further entrench and enhance their power.

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The exemption from the rule of law has been fully transferred from the highest level political elites to their counterparts in the private sector. "Law" is something used to restrain ordinary Americans and especially those who oppose this consortium of government and corporate power, but it manifestly does not apply to restrain these elites.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/13/944094/-Glenn-Greenwald-Blasts-government-help-in-B-of-As-war-on-WikiLeaksAnonymous

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. One of the most important articles written in the last year!

Greenwald could not be more correct. This is a must read article!

Cheers!

[DirkGently]

2. "Hunton & Williams was recommended to Bank of America's General Counsel by the Justice Department"

... and Hunton Williams recomended the security companies that planned, among other things, to try to get critics of the Chamber of Commerce to bite on manufactured documents, to then turn around and discredit the critics.

Flat-out, anti-consumer counter-espionage.

These dots do not require further connection. The Justice Dept. is helping big business lie to the American public to our detriment.

[KansDem]

3. Well, we now have a government "of, for, and by the corporations."

And this is the proof.

[Fuddnik]

4. Corporations are the government now.

Look at the Cabinet. It looks like a board meeting.

[Gregorian]

5. I find this very frightening.

This is exactly what causes situations like the one that is happening in Egypt. People will only tolerate so much corruption.