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FOIA and the Fed

 

Published 11/14/2008 by martha.c.white at The Big Money

On Nov. 7, Bloomberg News filed a suit against the Federal Reserve to force it to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request for details about emergency loans made and collateral accepted in recent months; the loans amount to nearly $2 trillion. A few days later, House Minority Leader John Boehner called on the Fed to comply with the request and make the details of those transactions public. Can you FOIA the Fed? read more (link)

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