This is one of the best op-eds on the Traitorous American Robbery Program (aka "Troubled Assets Relief Program"), assigning the lack of transparency on the Bush administration--in particular, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. Congress gave both men hundreds of billions of dollars to invest as they saw fit with no accountability; worse, they have fought disclosure about who got what and how that was spent, denying Bloomberg News' freedom of information requests.

An op-ed piece that is brutally blunt about what amounts to nothing more than criminal behavior by the Bush administration--true to its character right up to the end. If this doesn't raise the righteous ire of Americans, no one is paying attention.

Openness in the Bush Administration Is like The Great Houdini showing you how he did his magic tricks.

It is well written and high quality. This piece, however, provides an interesting tidbit of information that if blown out informationally would dwarf the rest of the article. The passage follows. I would have liked to see list of all the bailout money and its sources as context for this article. Treasury's program is floodlit transparency compared with the Federal Reserve's. Not needing Congress' approval, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke gave himself what Paulson originally wanted: nearly unlimited authority to launch public funds into the economy. At least in the TARP you know who's getting the money. The Fed doesn't even publish a list of recipients. The $2 trillion in allocations so far from the various Fed bailout programs ... More »