(GOP) Financial Crisis Panel Commissioners Leaked Confidential InfoTo Lobbyists, Report Alleges

[kpete]

Source: Huffington Post

Financial Crisis Panel Commissioners Leaked Confidential Information To Lobbyists, Report Alleges

Republican commissioners on the panel created by Congress to probe the roots of the financial crisis leaked documents to partisan allies and shared confidential information with influence peddlers, according to a Wednesday report by Democrats on a Congressional oversight committee.

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, led by Republican Rep. Darrell Issa of California, sought to investigate allegations that the bipartisan Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission was mismanaged by its Democratic majority, misused taxpayer funds, was compromised by conflicts of interest and colluded with Democrats in Congress as they sought to pass a financial reform bill.

Instead, the 400,000 emails and documents obtained by the investigative committee show that Republican commissioner Peter Wallison broke confidentiality rules by leaking documents to Ed Pinto, a colleague of his at the American Enterprise Institute, a prominent right-leaning Washington-based research and policy organization.

The misconduct did not stop there, according to the report. The assistant of Bill Thomas, the panel's vice chairman and another of the four Republican commissioners, shared information about the commission's hearings, targets and investigative direction with one of Thomas's colleagues at law firm Buchanan, Ingersoll, and Rooney, one of Washington's top lobbying shops. In one case, Thomas's colleague, Alex Brill, asked Thomas's assistant in a March 31, 2010, email about an upcoming hearing on Citigroup for his "friend who represents Citi." The bank was concerned it would be unfairly singled out at its hearing, wrote Brill, who is also the chief executive of economic and political consulting firm Matrix Global Advisors.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/13/financial-crisis-panel-leaks-lobbyists_n_897186.html

[Octafish]

1. 'Heard on the Street'

No one likes inside information more than Wall Street, except for Langley. Judging by who benefits morst from secret government cozy with big money, that seems to be the same thing.

[deacon]

2. WOW!

[Kingofalldems]

3. Never trust a republican---incredibly sneaky and dishonest.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

8. NEVER EVER TRUST A REPUBLICAN

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[Ikonoklast]

4. Issa ends up fucking fellow Republicans on his fishing expedition.

Good job, keep it up, asshole!

[gratuitous]

5. Issa will settle this

By calling off his inquiry.

[AC_Mem]

6. If he calls off the inquiry

Democrats should raise HELL. He opened this can of peas, now they need to eat them. And we alllll want to watch.

Annette
who kind of likes the whole "peas" analogy - especially when the republicans have to EAT IT. :)

[Dept of Beer]

7. What's wrong with peas?

:shrug:

[valerief]

12. Nothing. They're good for us, but Republicans don't like anything good for us. nt

[LetTimmySmoke]

9. The GOP has the curse of the boomerang.

Everything they try to do to the Dems and Obama gets thrown back on themselves.

They tried to box in Obama on the debt ceiling, they ended up boxing in themselves.

They tried to embarrass Obama at the negotiations, they only ended up embarrassing themselves.

They tried to find dirt on the Dem financial commissioners, they only unearthed dirt on themselves.

The Universe is full of Karma these days.

[1monster]

10. No worries! IOKIYAR!

:sarcasm:

[sakabatou]

11. Way to screw America, Republicans

[saras]

13. Here we go - our version of Wikileaks

"Republican commissioner Peter Wallison broke confidentiality rules by leaking documents to Ed Pinto, a colleague of his at the American Enterprise Institute, a prominent right-leaning Washington-based research and policy organization."

There's two felons and a criminal conspiracy right there.

Can we PLEASE give them the Bradley Manning treatment? And set the DOJ on shutting down the organization?