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It was Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke who originally suggested that Paulson go to Congress. Bernanke worried that there wasn't enough accountability in the two of them deciding on their own authority how to deploy billions of dollars in bailouts.
The question now becomes how to unwind the AIG bailout. The big banks have de-TARPed. The issue of AIG secrecy, however, still remains. But that’s not Geithner’s issue. He wasn’t part of the secrecy; he was part of the solution. (Incidentally, former Treasury man Henry Paulson will join me on T...
Thu, Jan 28 | from National Review Online