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GAO: "Treasury Has Yet To Address A Number Of Critical Issues" On Spending Bailout Money

A just-released report by the Government Accountability Office on how the Treasury Department is using the $700 billion allocated to it by Congress for the financial bailout reaches some discouraging conclusions.

It finds that:

Treasury has yet to address a number of critical issues, including determining how it will ensure that CPP is achieving its intended goals and monitoring compliance with limitations on executive compensation and dividend payments. Moreover, further actions are needed to formalize transition planning efforts and establish an effective management structure and an essential system of internal control.

We're looking through the report here at TPMmuckraker and will bring you more detail as we find it...


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For starters...get a shovel and dig up Bernanke, Paulson, Bush and Cheney's back yards....if you truly want accountability

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Lest we forget, Paulson went into this asking for NO oversight, no questions about how the money was to be used, no congressional approval, no nothing whatsoever.

Looks like he's gotten what he asked for in the first place. This lack of oversight and accountability is criminal.

PEACE

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And what else could be expected of a Bush appointee!

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