http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-25/u-s-treasury-shielding-of-citigroup-with-deletions-make-foia-meaningless.html
The cover up of fraud and embezzlement is actually considered and accepted a "Trade Secret" by the Treasury.
What I want to know is:
How long will it be before we see the evidence of vigilante justice being meted out, by the betrayed taxpayers, of the United States?
With every day's new attempt by the various government entities to sugar coat the wide spread racketeering that the investment banks subject this country to, the odds of such an act, are being brought clearly into focus.
It's only a matter of time, and that time, is clearly growing short.
The late Bloomberg News reporter Mark Pittman asked the U.S. Treasury in January 2009 to identify $301 billion of securities owned by Citigroup Inc. that the government had agreed to guarantee. He made the request on the grounds that taxpayers ought to know how their money was being used.
More than 20 months later, after saying at least five times that a response was imminent, Treasury officials responded with 560 pages of printed-out e-mails -- none of which Pittman requested. They were so heavily redacted that most of what’s left are everyday messages such as “Did you just try to call me?” and “Monday will be a busy day!”
None of the documents answers Pittman’s request for “records sufficient to show the names of the relevant securities” or the dates and terms of the guarantees. Even so, the U.S. government considers the collection of e-mails a partial response to an official request under the federal Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA. The Justice Department in July cited an increase in such responses as evidence that “more information is being released” under the law.
