My Comment: I wonder if the truth would discredit the Fed and lead to widespread calls for its abolishment?
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Truth would destroy U.S. economic system, Fed warns
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2009-08-27 16:45.
Section: Daily Dispatches
Fed Urges Secrecy for Banks in Bailout Programs
By Jonathan Stempel
Reuters
Thursday, August 27, 2009
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idINN2732083820090827?rpc=44
NEW YORK -- The U.S. Federal Reserve asked a federal judge not to enforce her order that it reveal the names of the banks that have participated in its emergency lending programs and the sums they received, saying such disclosure would threaten the companies and the economy.
The central bank filed its request on Wednesday, two days after Chief Judge Loretta Preska of the U.S. District Court in Manhattan ruled in favor of Bloomberg News, which had sought information under the federal Freedom of Information Act.
Preska said the Fed failed to show that revealing the names would stigmatize the banks and result in "imminent competitive harm." The Fed asked the judge not to require disclosure while it readies an appeal.
"Immediate release of these documents will cause irreparable harm to these institutions and to the board's ability to effectively manage the current, and any future, financial crisis," the central bank argued.
It added that the public interest favors a delay, citing a potential for "significant harms that could befall not only private companies, but the economy as a whole" if the information were disclosed.
Underlying this case and a similar one involving News Corp.'s Fox News Network LLC is a question of how much the public has a right to know about how the government is bailing out a financial system in a crisis...
The rest of this is at http://www.gata.org/node/7729
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