Scandal alert! Where are the documents? Where is the transparency!

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Hello All, This is NOT a debate over who is more responsible Bush or Obama. There is NO QUESTION that both are culpable! Given the promises of transparency made by Mdm. Pelosi in 2006 and the renewed promises made by Barack Obama, it is now incumbent upon the Obama administration to shine the light of integrity on this SCANDAL, including but not limited to the immediate termination of all complicit parties. Excuses are unacceptable! Oh and where the heck is the media??? Since they continue to refuse to do THEIR JOBS, then let's make sure that no quarter (bail out) is ever offered! [i]"Federal Government Meddles in Corporate Takeover .... January 26, 2009, Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit against the Treasury Department, seeking all records related to a meeting Paulson held with top bank officials on October 13, 2008, as the financial crisis was just getting started. During that meeting Paulson reportedly offered bank executives a deal they could not refuse, which certainly raised our eyebrows and our suspicions. We filed a FOIA immediately, and sued when the government stonewalled. [b]Incredibly, the Treasury Department now says there are no responsive documents! One of the most important meetings at Treasury in the past decade and there are no related documents?[/b] I simply don't believe it."[/i] http://www.judicialwatch.org/weeklyupdate/2009/09-another-screwed-obama-nominee#anchor1 So, where are the documents? Where is the record of this "deal they could not refuse" that Paulson offered to the bank executives? What specifically did Paulson offer those bank executives? Why is Treasury being protected by this new administration? (hint - Geithner) Where is this so called "transparency" that Obama promised? "the Treasury Department now says there are no responsive documents!" Might this mysterious "deal" have had something to do with the $78 billion overpaid by TARP? "The Congressional Oversight Panel estimates that Paulson overpaid for bad assets by some $78 billion, amounting to a gigantic subsidy of publicly-traded companies like AIG (NYSE: By allowing shareholders to retain stakes in bailed out companies, the TARP program hamstrung its efforts to recoup taxpayer cash,..." www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/02/06/tarp-overpaid-for-assets-says-watchdog/ www.dailypundit.com/?p=33712 digg.com/business_finance/Treasury_overpaid_to_the_tune_of_78_Billion_WTF www.dinksfinance.com/2009/02/goverment-overpaid-by-30-for-tarp-funds.html (etc, etc, etc ...) The "deal" was made under the purview of the Bush administration, with the full support of this current Congress, as well as Barack Obama and Timothy Geithner. Moreover, the FOIA lawsuit was not filed until after the inauguration of the new administration. This makes both administrations, and every member of Congress who voted for TARP, and offered blind support of Paulson and the Treasurey -- guilty of complicity! This stinks to high heaven, folks! And, portends very, very badly for us, the taxpayers. Please folks, get on the phone with both your legislators, your governors, and most especially the press -- including local 'investigative teams'. It will only from the result of a wide-angle attack that we will ever learn what was really promised , and what really went down. Who knew what, and when??? Wouldn't it seem logical that the Dems would be salivating to throw the Bush administration and Paulson under the bus? But wait!!! Tim Geithner, the tax cheat, was up to his eyeballs in the planning and enactment stages of TARP. Wasn't Geithner's "expertise" in TARP the reason given by Team Obama for the need to overlook the fact that Geithner's is a tax cheat? Any thoughts?