no, the FBI was portrayed as mildly incompetent and thus as victims. As a result the DoJ was portrayed the same way. One private attorney was a total sleaze, but the others not.
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Eugene Coyle <[email protected]> wrote: > What about the FBI, separately the US Dept. of Justice, certain attorneys > and judges? Where they shown as criminals? > > > On Sep 27, 2009, at 10:15 AM, Jim Devine wrote: > >> (spoiler alert) in the movie, both ADM and the movie's subject are >> criminals. >> >> On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Eugene Coyle <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> The movie "The Informant" is getting good play in the media -- as a >>> comedy. >>> Starring Matt Damon. I have not seen the film. >>> The crimes involved are those of ADM, its officers and its price-fixing >>> conspirators. >>> This has been discussed on Pen-L in the past but because of the success >>> of >>> the movie I want to flag it. NPR today had a long program on the case >>> but I >>> only caught enough of it to arouse my ire. >>> The book on which the movie of the same name, "The Informant," is based >>> turned the story of the crimes on its head and made the actual informer >>> the >>> subject, instead of the crimnals, notably ADM and its executives. In so >>> doing, the author Kurt Eichenwald was able to whitewash the US Department >>> of >>> Justice, big Washington lawyers, and the FBI. I wasn't surprised, years >>> later, when the same author tried in another book to whitewash Ken Lay of >>> Enron. Ken Lay was already too far gone when that book came out. >>> Eichenwald was a reporter for the NY Times business section at the time >>> of >>> the ADM & the later Enron scandals. Eichenwald had his own scandal later >>> and is no longer with the NY Times. >>> There is another book, a much better book, on the multiple crimes >>> involved, >>> titled Rats In The Grain by James B. Lieber. Jaded as I am, there are >>> things in the Lieber book that still shocked me. >>> Gene Coyle >>> _______________________________________________ >>> pen-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own >> way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. >> _______________________________________________ >> pen-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
