Subpoenaing the press will not be haphazard at the SEC. The Wall Street Journal reports here that Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox will require commissioner notification prior to subpoenaing documents from journalists. This policy comes in the aftermath of a subpoena that had been issued to two Dow Jones & Co. journalists.
Internal agency policy on issues of this magnitude is important to protect against individual decision-makers, who may have enormous discretion, acting in variance with others with the same discretionary power. Approval not only will provide oversight to these policy decisions, but also allow the agency to operate with some uniformity in making such decisions.
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The SEC — Chasing After Good Guys or Bad Guys?
The SEC, and the media, need to keep in mind this history of anti-shorting hysteria — and the sorry pedigree of the anti-shorting hysterics. Solv-Ex is just one of many examples of cruddy companies using shorts as scapegoats.
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The larger issue is that the people who received the subpeonas are not really “press” or “journalists,” but very biased flacks and mouthpieces for large hedge funds.
Chairman Cox proved he is a politician who is easily intimidated by these same powerful special interests and chose to undermine his own agency’s attorneys and enforcement personal by personally acting to disrupt their investigation. Pathetic.
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