Ted Kaufman: “The simplest explanation is the best. I think it is pretty clear they are doing this for domestic political consumption.”

I do not want a single innocent person to go to jail or be criminally indicted for any reason.

The panic of 2008 has subsided, but it has been replaced by the gnawing pain of countless men and women who can't find work, who can't keep their homes, and who don't know whether their economic story will ever end in recovery.

In the words of Ben Bernanke, America was on a course for 'a cataclysm that could have rivaled or surpassed the Great Depression.'

It's only fitting that, at a crisis past, a government should set aside its crisis authorities.