{"id":8265,"date":"2009-12-11T23:28:52","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T07:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/?p=8265"},"modified":"2009-12-11T23:28:52","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T07:28:52","slug":"an-unprecedented-level-of-openness-in-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/11\/an-unprecedented-level-of-openness-in-government\/","title":{"rendered":"An Unprecedented Level of Openness in Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, this is what &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/federal-eye\/2009\/01\/_in_a_move_that.html#more\" title=\"Obama memorandums on FOIA &amp; Transparency and Open Government\">an unprecedented level of openness in Government<\/a>&#8221; looks like:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattle.bizjournals.com\/seattle\/blog\/2009\/12\/the_fight_for_wamu_documents.html\" title=\"The fight for WaMu documents\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/FDIC-Bair-01.gif\" style=\"border:0; float: right;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/seattle.bizjournals.com\/seattle\/blog\/2009\/12\/the_fight_for_wamu_documents.html\" title=\"The fight for WaMu documents\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/FDIC-Bair-02.gif\" style=\"border:0; margin: 0 auto;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/seattle.bizjournals.com\/seattle\/blog\/2009\/12\/the_fight_for_wamu_documents.html\" title=\"The fight for WaMu documents\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/FDIC-Bair-04.gif\" style=\"border:0; float: left;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"border:0; clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattle.bizjournals.com\/seattle\/blog\/2009\/12\/the_fight_for_wamu_documents.html\" title=\"The fight for WaMu documents\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/FDIC-Bair-05.gif\" style=\"border:0; float: right;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/seattle.bizjournals.com\/seattle\/blog\/2009\/12\/the_fight_for_wamu_documents.html\" title=\"The fight for WaMu documents\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/FDIC-Bair-07.gif\" style=\"border:0; margin: 0 auto;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/seattle.bizjournals.com\/seattle\/blog\/2009\/12\/the_fight_for_wamu_documents.html\" title=\"The fight for WaMu documents\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/FDIC-Bair-08.gif\" style=\"border:0; float: left;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"border:0; clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattle.bizjournals.com\/seattle\/blog\/2009\/12\/the_fight_for_wamu_documents.html\" title=\"The fight for WaMu documents\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/FDIC-Bair-09.gif\" style=\"border:0; float: right;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/seattle.bizjournals.com\/seattle\/blog\/2009\/12\/the_fight_for_wamu_documents.html\" title=\"The fight for WaMu documents\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/FDIC-Bair-10.gif\" style=\"border:0; margin: 0 auto;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/seattle.bizjournals.com\/seattle\/blog\/2009\/12\/the_fight_for_wamu_documents.html\" title=\"The fight for WaMu documents\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/FDIC-Bair-12.gif\" style=\"border:0; float: left;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"border:0; clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattle.bizjournals.com\/seattle\/blog\/2009\/12\/the_fight_for_wamu_documents.html\" title=\"The fight for WaMu documents\">Via Kirsten Grind<\/a> at the Puget Sound Business Journal.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Puget Sound Business Journal for months has asked the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS), the federal agency that regulated Washington Mutual, to release internal communications between WaMu&#8217;s regulators.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nOn Wednesday, an OTS official told the Business Journal in an email: &#8220;After careful review, I have determined that your request, as it pertains to the above-referenced documents, is denied in full.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nUnder the Freedom of Information Act, the Business Journal has received several hundred pages of government emails about WaMu, written during its final months, in which almost all of information is blacked out. Some of those &#8220;redacted&#8221; emails are posted here.<\/p>\n<p>These emails were released by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., another government agency in charge of WaMu.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Absolutely inexcusable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, this is what &#8220;an unprecedented level of openness in Government&#8221; looks like: Via Kirsten Grind at the Puget Sound Business Journal. The Puget Sound Business Journal for months has asked the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS), the federal agency that regulated Washington Mutual, to release internal communications between WaMu&#8217;s regulators. &#8230; On Wednesday, an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[198],"tags":[65,365,605,181,559,111],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-business-journal","tag-fdic","tag-foia","tag-grind","tag-ofm","tag-wamu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>An Unprecedented Level of Openness in Government \u2022 Seattle Bubble<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/11\/an-unprecedented-level-of-openness-in-government\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"An Unprecedented Level of Openness in Government \u2022 Seattle Bubble\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Apparently, this is what &#8220;an unprecedented level of openness in Government&#8221; looks like: Via Kirsten Grind at the Puget Sound Business Journal. 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