Expand the list to include the Treasury Department: - a repeat of putting the fox in charge of the chicken coop: that day on April 24, 2004, Hank led the charge to lift the SEC rules that three years on, brought the financial house down.

Check this out:

A Quiet Windfall For U.S. Banks
With Attention on Bailout Debate, Treasury Made Change to Tax Policy

The financial world was fixated on Capitol Hill as Congress battled over the Bush administration's request for a $700 billion bailout of the banking industry. In the midst of this late-September drama, the Treasury Department issued a five-sentence notice that attracted almost no public attention.

But corporate tax lawyers quickly realized the enormous implications of the document: Administration officials had just given American banks a windfall of as much as $140 billion.

The sweeping change to two decades of tax policy escaped the notice of lawmakers for several days, as they remained consumed with the controversial bailout bill. When they found out, some legislators were furious. Some congressional staff members have privately concluded that the notice was illegal. But they have worried that saying so publicly could unravel several recent bank mergers made possible by the change and send the economy into an even deeper tailspin.

"Did the Treasury Department have the authority to do this? I think almost every tax expert would agree that the answer is no," said George K. Yin, the former chief of staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, the nonpartisan congressional authority on taxes. "They basically repealed a 22-year-old law that Congress passed as a backdoor way of providing aid to banks."

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AIG Gets Expanded Bailout, Posts $24.5 Billion Loss (Update2)

Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- American International Group Inc., the insurer bailed out by the U.S., got an expanded government rescue package valued at more than $150 billion after recording a fourth straight quarterly loss.

[ED: I.dred.it - watch it grow to one trillion]

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Fed Defies Transparency Aim in Refusal to Identify Bank Loans

 Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve is refusing to identify the recipients of almost $2 trillion of emergency loans from American taxpayers or the troubled assets the central bank is accepting as collateral.

Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said in September they would comply with congressional demands for transparency in a $700 billion bailout of the banking system. Two months later, as the Fed lends far more than that in separate rescue programs that didn't require approval by Congress, Americans have no idea where their money is going or what securities the banks are pledging in return.

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Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

It don't expect to see the results for some time.

Revenge/justice is a dish best served cold.