President Obama: Recommend Neil Barofsky as SEC Enforcement Chief

[grahamhgreen]

With SEC Director of Enforcement Robert Khuzami stepping down, the Obama administration has a chance to recommend someone who is willing to take on Wall Street and actually carry out the charge of the SEC.

Former TARP Inspector General Neil Barofsky would be a perfect fit for this important role. In his previous position, Barofsky diligently pursued fraudsters, securing 14 convictions and recovering $150 million in fraudulent earnings for taxpayers.

Sign our petition demanding the Obama administration recommend Neil Barofsky as the next head of enforcement for the SEC.

http://action.firedoglake.com/page/s/barofsky-sec

[Tarheel_Dem]

1. I'll sign it when Jane Hamsher's BFF, Grover Norquist, signs it.

[grahamhgreen]

2. Oh the old Ad Hominem attack..... yawn.

Description of Ad Hominem

Translated from Latin to English, "Ad Hominem" means "against the man" or "against the person."

An Ad Hominem is a general category of fallacies in which a claim or argument is rejected on the basis of some irrelevant fact about the author of or the person presenting the claim or argument. Typically, this fallacy involves two steps. First, an attack against the character of person making the claim, her circumstances, or her actions is made (or the character, circumstances, or actions of the person reporting the claim). Second, this attack is taken to be evidence against the claim or argument the person in question is making (or presenting). This type of "argument" has the following form:

Person A makes claim X.
Person B makes an attack on person A.
Therefore A's claim is false.

The reason why an Ad Hominem (of any kind) is a fallacy is that the character, circumstances, or actions of a person do not (in most cases) have a bearing on the truth or falsity of the claim being made (or the quality of the argument being made).