The government will fight to the end to suppress those documents in my humble opinion, as they let too many cats out of the bag. Outrage is already building to a fevered pitch over the bailouts as Wall Street is given preferred treatment by Washington.

Gary

The law is for chumps, not elite like Tim Geithner.

Everyone who has been paying attention the last ten years knows that when a member of the oligarchy commits a crime the congress retroactively immunizes him or the President covers it up by spouting law obstructing nonsense such as "We must look forward not backward".

Therefore the NY Fed did NOT send any incriminating emails to AIG. And the only rational conclusion is Eliot Spitzer, William Black and Frank Partnoy are delusional and in need of heavy medication.

Tim Geithner did NO wrong and should be applauded for his patriotism and service.

Tim Geithner did NO wrong and should be applauded for his patriotism and service.

Tim Geithner did NO wrong and should be applauded for his patriotism and service.

Say it 100 more times and it becomes the TRUTH.

AIG changed it's name to Farmers in my State. They just went down the hole, and Alice wont find them for 3 years.

Eliot Spitzer for President!

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/sarcasm on
Elito Spitzer has no credibility. He paid for sexual services.
/sarcasm off

Whatever his past moral failings were, Eliot Spitzer has the known reputation of someone who took on and successfully prosecuted and jailed Wall Street crooks. What will be most fun is to listen to whatever rationalizations those who are "the powers that be" have for not releasing such emails and making them available to the owners of AIG, the American people.

Almost as much fun will be listening to explanations of why, in light of the disclosures about the role of the FED ordering AIG to suppress the details about its payments to banks during the finnacial crisis, the three trustees appointed to administer the public's majority ownership stake of AIG are all former FED officials.

As I read this ultimatum it occured to me that Eliot Spitzer may, as a well-informed expert and journalist, be more of a headache to the financially corrupt in power than he ever was as either the Attorney General or Governor of New York. In his current position Spitzer gets to pose the questions others are either too distracted, too frightened, or too muzzled to ask.

Wouldn't it be marvelous if Spitzer, in true Phoenix-like fashion, became the scourge all the Wall Street crooks feared he would be if allowed to remain in political power? In the hands of the right person, truly the pen is mightier than the sword and can realign the skewed scales of justice.

Poet

Before the financial crisis hit the fan, Spitzer was investigating AIG. As I recall it revolved more around setting up offshore non-insurance insurance schemes to help corporations avoid taxes and collusion where insurance companies divided up business and only pretended to compete, aka price fixing.

All while AIG's Hank Greenberg was at the NY Fed raising up the young-un, Timmy.

If you were Rahm Emanuel or Timothy Geithner what would make you sweat? Worse than the threat of embarassment or losing office would be the thought that you would be so discredited you could not even hold down a private sector job or that you might face criminal prosecution. I think what Geithner has done is criminal--who is going to prosecute him?

The internal emails I want to see are Goldman Sachs, the firm that primarilly engineered the crisis by packaging corrupted MBS bonds, selling them, and then shortselling the hell out of the only index used to provide the mandated mark-to-market valuation of those bonds. The very rapid downfall in the valuation of those bonds immediately effected mortgage company balance sheets and hence their levels of debt and credit lines (and those companies were having their stock attacked by massive illegal shortselling that drove their market capitalization into the ground). For most, credit lines were immediately revoked (often by companies affiliated by Sachs or Sachs itself) and margin calls demanded. That killed many mortgage writers like Countrywide, which Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, etc., scooped up at pennies on the dollar--which was the plan from the outset. What Sachs and its conspirators didn't count on was their actions causing an implosion of the global credit markets. Yes, the FED was responsible for the housing bubble, but it was Sachs's actions that burst it--actions that were surely premediatated, which could be proven through evidencial discovery.

AIG/Valic has its own set of problems, but it was only a minor player in generating the crisis and is now being set-up as the patsy. The #1 Shark is Goldman Sachs and the other broker-dealers that "managed" to "survive" the crisis.

So beware of having your attention diverted from the "man" behind the cutain as that's exactly what Spitzer and company are trying to do.

where is our "change to belive in"?
release the CHANGE

Scanning over articles I stopped and shuttered seeing "Spitzer". I knew it would be a good article. Oh how I wish this story would finally get out, that they'd be exposed. But what are we to do when the line of protection is the CIA and FBI?

Too few people across America understand this Spitzer's mission. He knows the enemy, he knows how they operate and who is protecting them.

I'm sure this AIG thing is so insane it plays out like fiction. Its got to be mind blowing.

This Progressive, Liberal wants to thank Eliot Spitzer for his amazing tenacity and good works. May you never tire and so many of us sit and wait baited breath for day those who prey upon us are exposed and justice is served on this cartel.

Again, thank you.

It's my understanding that AIG was in trouble for years before they fell/got caught. I don't know if it's true, but I heard that people waited for claims checks for months and months. Rumor was that AIG waited for money to come in before checks were written.

I'd like to add my support for this request.

OK Eliot, you have served your ten minute major for misconduct. It's time for you to hook up with someone like Gregg Palast and start laying bare the crimes of these corporate rats! Seeing that Congress isn't going to do it, a colaboration between you and Mr. Palast would probably be the most in depth investigation the American people could expect into what led to the countries financial meltdown. It's time for somebody to start kicking ass and taking names on behalf of the American people. I hope both of you will consider it!

"If we understand the failure of AIG, we will more fully understand the crisis - what caused it and more importantly how to prevent it from happening again."

Spitzer is of course one of the elites who promotes the fairy tales to the public, to try to confuse us, ultimately to enslave us.

He understands the crisis but he isn't allowed to confirm that to the public, which has access to the truth, but fails to embrace the truth because of its opiate dependence on the elite establishment, a.k.a., Sugar Daddy.

Everyone knows that Darth Viper's winks/nods during 2001 unleashed a speculation bonanza unparalleled in history. Commodities, energy, (un)real estate, and the finance-warez cooked up for no benefit whatsoever to the REAL economy and REAL people, all went ballistic in an absolute regulatory void.

The rightwingers forget about this regulatory void as they try to bury its spectacular destruction. Even though, the void STILL EXISTS TODAY under the left-side-of-extreme-right Demoks. Add amnesia to their many afflictions. But please vote for them again and again and again! Sugar Daddies and Sugar Mommas!

FDR said,

"there are 2 ways of viewing the government's duty,
the 1st sees to it that a favored few are helped and hopes that some of their
prosperity will leak through, sift through, to labor, to the farmer, to the
small business man. That theroy belongs to the party of Torism, and I had hoped
that most of the Tories left this country in 1776."

A more appropriate title might be "Tip of the Scheisseberg".

good to see spitzer boy back in the game. amazing, isn't it, that among all these financial scandals, the folks in new york sent him packing. only in the puritan u.s.a. would such a thing happen. it woud be like cashiering ike before d-day because of kate summerby. republican david vtter, i notice, is still the senator from louisaina, despite his repeated trysts with prostitutes. and ensign still sails the senatorial desert of nevada, throwing hush money as the sands and cacti will allow. and, if you're a known killer, like bush or mcchrystal, people will deem you a fine fella, and slap your back. better a torturer or mad bomber than someone with an outsized libido. we like to grow 'em mean over here in the usa. now, if spitzer had just killed his opponenet in octagonal cage submission fighting.....

Well, the Shapiro crook head of the SEC just answered.

The SEC has announced TODAY that all AIG e-mails are SEALED until 2018.

FUCKING FABULOUS! What a monstrous, in-your-face bunch of assholes!