(h/t Huffington Post)
I hate to link to The New York Post but oh well.
To see Neel Kashkari field questions from a crowded room, one might think he's still being paid by Goldman Sachs rather than American taxpayers.
The interim assistant secretary of the Treasury for financial stabilization yesterday had a tone of impatience during a question-and-answer session, leaving some attendees feeling cheated.
He tersely called the additional cash piped to AIG a "one-off event." Well, glad to have that cleared up!
I hope more news organizations follow Bloomberg's action:
Meanwhile, Bloomberg News sued the Federal Reserve for information under the US Freedom of Information Act, claiming the Fed refuses to identify the recipients of almost $2 trillion of emergency loans as well as the troubled assets the bank is accepting as collateral.
I'll be damned if I'm going to speculate about a yet-again secretive series of actions using our taxpayer money. The issue here is about transparency -- we shouldn't have to run around like Nancy Drew finding out what should be neither a secret nor a mystery.
We've lived for 8 years under the most secretive misAdministration in my lifetime. Clearly our corporations and other big bidness has been secretive as well, and it's become a national sickness, imo.
Enough already. Time to let the sunshine in ... all the way in.
Because I don't have one last nerve left to go through this bogus, faux, egregious, idiotic, unproductive, disrespectful, incompetent secrecy on every goddamned issue that's going to come up when we start that big Change everyone's talking about.
I believe that means accountability. And there can be no accountability without freedom of information. We deserve that information, we are entitled to it, and our politicians had all better start being straight with us.
(Thanks to YouTuber heldrap for video and description: "An energetic group of young performers sings "Let the Sunshine In" in Washington Square Park, before they meet author Jim Rado.")