*Economic Meltdown headlines: 2010 thus far.

SEC Didn’t Act After Spotting Wall Street Risks, Documents Show Greenspan wanted to keep housing bubble concerns from public, new transcripts show E-mails Show Goldman Execs Boasting as Housing Meltdown Unfolded Fed Transparency: Dorgan, Grassley Push Amendment To Disclose Spending The Fed Is Only Authorized to Conduct MONETARY Policy, But It Has Also “Become the [...]

-Cops & Judges Caught Using Secret Codes On Tickets.

Report from South Florida about officers’ secret “ticket talk” with judges.

-FOIA Review: More Government Secrecy Under Obama Than Bush.

An Associated Press review of Freedom of Information Act reports filed by 17 major government agencies has revealed that, despite Barack Obama’s promise to make government more transparent, more information is now being withheld from the public. The review finds that during Obama’s first year in office, a FOIA provision that allows the government to [...]

-Government Warned 9/11 Commission ‘Not To Cross The Line’.

Documents recently obtained by the ACLU show that the government warned the 9/11 Commission against getting to the bottom of the September 11 terror attacks in a letter signed by Attorney General John Ashcroft, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and CIA Director George J. Tenet. In a letter dated January 6, 2004, the Commission was [...]

-CIA chief approved destruction of terrorist waterboarding tapes.

London Telegraph: The former CIA chief, Porter Goss, approved a 2005 decision to destroy 92 tapes showing US agents waterboarding two terrorism suspects, according to newly released internal emails. FBI investigators are still examining who knew what about the destruction of the videos, which showed officers using the simulated drowning technique that is widely considered [...]