Throughout the week over at Securities Docket, I highlight the most interesting columns and blog posts from around the web on the subjects of SEC enforcement and securities litigation. Here is a digest of my picks for the week ending March 26:

Denis J. McInerney, new chief of Justice's fraud unit, avows passion for public service (Carrie Johnson, WaPo)The Washington Post | March 26, 2010Denis J. McInerney, the new chief of the Justice Department's fraud unit, sprints out of his office most nights with a question on his mind: Is 1 a.m. too late to use the treadmill without disturbing my neighbors?

McInerney, 50, routinely logs grueling hours after two months in the new post. He oversees five dozen prosecutors who build health-care fraud, insider-trading and foreign bribery cases, at a time when a majority of the American public is furious about corporate greed.

How Not to Run an S.E.C. Investigation (Peter Henning, DealBook)DealBook | March 24, 2010A recent report by Securities and Exchange Commission's inspector general shows that the investigation of Bernard L. Madoff was not the only one to go badly awry. While the impact of the S.E.C.'s missteps were not nearly as significant as in the Madoff case, the report shows that the agency's enforcement division allowed itself to be manipulated by a company it should have been investigating more thoroughly while allowing former staff members to influence its decisions on how to proceed.

At last, the FSA gets tough on insider dealing (Nils Pratley, guardian.co.uk)Guardian | March 24, 2010Now the Financial Services Authority is definitely serious. The regulator's claim that raids were part of its "largest ever operation against insider dealing" is almost an understatement. Raiding the offices of one of the world's biggest hedge funds, Moore Capital, makes this the FSA's highest-profile case by a mile.

Mendelsohn and Scarboro Spread the FCPA Gospel (Christopher M. Matthews, Main Justice)Main Justice | March 23, 2010The two public faces of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement hammered home the well-worn messaging about their agencies' commitment to the law at a conference Tuesday morning. Mark Mendelsohn, a Deputy Chief in the Justice Department Criminal Division's Fraud Section, and Cheryl Scarboro, an Associate Director in the Securities and Exchange Commission's Enforcement Division, touched on a number of issues regarding the FCPA, but the overall message was nothing new: FCPA enforcement is now a priority and it will continue to be.

The watchdog's last growl? (The Economist)The Economist | March 22, 2010Britain's Financial Services Authority (FSA) has a death sentence hanging over it. The Conservatives have pledged that if they win the general election that is now less than three months away, they will abolish the FSA, handing the job of supervising financial institutions to the Bank of England and creating a new consumer-protection agency to take on the FSA's task of protecting and advising the public. The authority's chief executive, Hector Sants, has said he will resign soon after the election. But that does not mean the financial watchdog is going quietly. In the past year or so it has been both biting more ferociously and barking more loudly, perhaps in the hope that its new masters will see what a good job it is doing, and decide not to have it put down.

Q & A with Joe Warin (Christopher Matthews, Main Justice)Main Justice | March 22, 2010Joe Warin, the chairman of Gibson Dunn's Washington D.C. litigation department, sat down with Main Justice last week for a wide-ranging discussion on the work of the Justice Department's Criminal Division and its effects on the white collar bar. Here is an edited transcript of the interview.

A Foreign Service for Wall Street (Scott McClesky, NY Times)The New York Times | March 22, 2010As Congress debates financial reform, it is ignoring the obvious Achilles' heel in any new regulatory scheme: the inability of regulatory agencies to enforce and put in place the new rules, thanks in large part to their failure to recruit, train and retain effective staff. That's why, alongside thorough reform, we need to overhaul the way regulatory agencies are staffed. Fortunately, there's a well-established model: the Foreign Service.