Monday, December 26, 2011

What comes out in the Christmas weekend document dump?

This is when you have to watch what info is released to the press-when they hope nobody will notice.

Fed Once-Secret Loan Crisis Data Compiled by Bloomberg Released to Public"Bloomberg News today released spreadsheets showing daily borrowing totals for 407 banks and companies that tapped Federal Reserve emergency programs during the 2007 to 2009 financial crisis. It’s the first time such data have been publicly available in this form. "

Dec 3rd: Another Friday Fast and Furious document dump    "Yesterday afternoon, the Justice Department — in yet another late Friday document dump — revealed how DOJ officials came to write a Feb. 4 letter to Congress that Attorney General Eric Holder has since admitted contained false information about the gunrunning scandal Fast and Furious. Roll Call reports."

Holiday Friday Document Dump Signing Statement  Regarding funds for the transfer Guantanamo "detainees"  prisoners of war to the US: 
"It is par for the course for the Administration to keep secret which provisions it intends to “apply in a manner that avoids constitutional conflicts” even while celebrating its own “transparency.” "

Christmas Eve Document Dump Tries to Sneak Bloomberg Aides' Special Treatment for Ground Zero Mosque By Skeptical Press Corps  "Embarrassing press releases are often scheduled on Friday afternoons or on the day before long weekends in order to catch a slow news cycle, so that by the time the news media is back in "full gear" the embarrassing news is old and has been replaced by fresher, new embarrassments. However, the Bloomberg administration may have embarrassed itself, by trying to hide this and being revealed for doing so. "  From Eric Dixon's Crime, Politics and Policy

From Instapundit:   THINGS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED OVER THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND, if you were off, you know, having a life or something.
Eric Holder blocks Voter ID in SC, sets up possible Supreme Court strikedown of Voting Rights Act Section Five.
Governors Journal names Wisconsin’s Scott Walker Governor Of The Year.
Copyright Troll Righthaven In Its Death Throes, Domain Going Up For Auction.
White House Using Bogus Numbers In Payroll Tax Fight.
DOJ to America: we won’t reveal the circumstances under which you can be assassinated by us.
More at the link.......

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