Call To "Open Source" AIG Investigation

VValdo writes "As you may recall, the citizens of the US shelled out about $85 billion to bail out AIG and its creditors (Goldman Sachs in particular) last year. But as 80% owners of AIG, we still don't know what happened, exactly. That may change. In a new op-ed piece, former prosecutors (including former NY governor Eliot Spitzer) are calling for the US Treasury to force AIG to release its treasure-trove of emails to the public before allowing AIG to 'break free' of our control. As the prosecutors put it, 'By putting the evidence online, the government could establish a new form of "open source" investigation. Once the documents are available for everyone to inspect, a thousand journalistic flowers can bloom, as reporters, victims and angry citizens have a chance to piece together the story.' Good idea?"

Re:Hrmm

[Anonymous Coward]

Which is why every single CEO or manager at AIG or any other "financial institution" should be dragged into the streets and shot in the head twice.

Re:Rigghttt...

[iluvcapra]

Lehman no longer exists, so I guess that makes us a one-party state? :p

Re:Open Source the Whole Industry

[jonaskoelker]

MBS/ABS/CMBS/CDO/CLO

How many times do we have to go over this? It's GNU/MBS/ABS/CMBS/CDO/CLO...

Wait, what were you talking about?