The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap Highlight

new president Obama, who ushered in a herd of Ivy Leaguers and high-powered corporate defense lawyers to be his top crime-fighting officials. This new crowd of bookish lawyers was headlined by the Columbia University/Covington & Burling duo of Holder as attorney general and Lanny Breuer as head of Justice’s Criminal Division, essentially the top crime-fighting job in the country. This new crew, derided as “tourists” by two different ex–DOJ officials I spoke with, attacked their posts with the attitudes of corporate lawyers, stressing risk avoidance above all and insisting that senior-level officials have their fingers in the smallest of pies.