> criminal negligence A regulatory agency that serves a liberal (or at least pro-regulation) administration failing to catch a crook is indeed bad at its job,

> criminal negligence A regulatory agency that serves a liberal (or at least pro-regulation) administration failing to catch a crook is indeed bad at its job, and yes people should probably get fired. A regulatory agency that serves an anti-regulation administration (and in particular Bush's SEC) failing to catch a crook, is doing exactly what the American people voted for it to do, which is nothing at all. You can't win an election on the platform that someone's job shouldn't exist, he shouldn't have the tools to do it, and we shouldn't be paying his salary, then suddenly turn around and want to throw him in jail for not doing that effectively enough.