Federal regulators have warned Johnson & Johnson that it could face fines and other sanctions for selling faulty insulin pumps and delaying disclosures of serious injuries to diabetics who were using its OneTouch Ping and 2020 pumps. The FDA ordered the Animas Corp. unit of J&J to explain why it kept selling pumps known to fail and also to submit a plan to rectify a failure to promptly report cases in which its device might have caused or contributed to death or serious injury....
In the issue with the Animas insulin pumps, some pump keypads for controlling how much insulin is injected were deteriorating prematurely, leading to failures. "We decided to go with a new keypad because it's more durable," [spokesperson Caoline] Pavis said.
But while Animas was lining up the new keypad supplier, it was still selling the older ones. The FDA demanded documents about the company's decision to do that.

[In a generally horrific context, a grotesquely inept claim of victimization by an oppressor. I thought we were the ones who are always supposed to be "playing the victim card".—DMM] <br />
Don Schmierer, one of the American evangelicals who visited Uganda in 2009 [to slander and agitate against homosexuals], said Mr. Kato’s death was “horrible.” <br />
“Naturally, I don’t want anyone killed, but I don’t feel I had anything to do with that,” said Mr. Schmierer, who added that in Uganda he had focused on parenting skills. He also said that he had been a target of threats himself, recently receiving more than 600 messages of hate mail related to his visit. <br />
“I spoke to help people,” he said, “and I’m getting bludgeoned from one end to the other.”

'Timothy Lytton[, author of] Holding Bishops Accountable, said [Mahony dealt with abusive priests] no worse—or better—than other...senior [US church leaders, but that] Mahony was under special scrutiny [because a] large number of civil lawsuits...unearthed detailed church records about his actions...
'Lytton said that while politically savvy prosecutors...would have been wary of a criminal investigation of senior Catholic leaders in the past...“Things that would have been politically unthinkable 20 years ago are now thinkable." [The indictment of a cardinal] “is now politically viable"...
'[A Mahony aide] testified that he had pressed the cardinal in 2000 to report a priest who was a notorious child abuser to law-enforcement agencies...Mahony refused...[Fr.] Michael Baker confessed to Mahony in 1986 that he was a pedophile...Mahony, then a bishop, sent Baker to a treatment center and later allowed him to resume parish work. Baker, now in prison, went on to molest several more children.

'The tax-free Iraq war, as cunningly conceived by the Bush White House, directly affected only those American families whose sons and daughters volunteered to fight it. [T]he Great Recession has affected nearly everyone[: most] victims are genuinely innocent bystanders who lost their jobs and savings while financial elites cashed in on the crash.
'Both as policy and politics, a serious reckoning for those who gamed the system is a win-win. Yet the fear that the Obama administration is protecting its friends persists. On the same morning that Rubin testified last week, Eamon Javers of Politico wrote about his continued influence on his many acolytes in the White House[, including] Geithner, whom Rubin talked with repeatedly in the weeks before the president released his financial regulatory reform proposal...
'Americans still waiting on Main Street for the recovery that lifted Wall Street once invested their hopes in Obama. Getting the new era of responsibility only 70% right won’t do.'

'Her growing cast of advisers and support system could be working in the service of...a presidential run, a de facto role as the leader of the Tea Party movement, a lucrative career as a roving media entity—or all of the above. Ms. Palin represents a new breed of unelected public figures operating in an environment in which politics, news media and celebrity are fused as never before. Whether she ever runs for anything else, Ms. Palin has already achieved...access to an electronic bully pulpit, a staff to guide her, an enormous income and none of the bother or accountability of having to govern or campaign for office.
'“Few public figures not in office have leveraged the nexus between media and political positioning as Sarah Palin has,” said [her] lawyer Robert Barnett (who negotiated...Ms. Palin’s lucrative deal with Fox News, [a public speaking contract] that pays her a reported $100K a pop, and [her memoir deal], which has already earned her upward of eight figures).'

'"'Jay Bybee was the primary author of 'legal' memos purporting to justify torture, including memos long known to the public and two [2002] memos recently released by the Department of Justice...The June 8th memo claims to justify depriving an American citizen of the right to a trial, claiming the power to imprison him without charge on the grounds that he was already guilty in the eyes of the memo's author, Jay Bybee.
Bybee's signature is on the August 1, 2002, memo listing the supposedly "legal" illegal [torture techniques employed in our name over the last several years].
He is now serving as a judge on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. A man who abuses his power to facilitate violation of laws and treaties banning torture has no business reversing the decisions of honest judges and juries"....Impeaching Bybee is the right start. But it is just a start. All of the torture advocates can and must be held to account -- not merely by the courts but by Congress.'