{"id":10978,"date":"2009-01-29T20:48:44","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T20:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/obamas_open_records_pledge_tested_over_citigroup_guarantees\/"},"modified":"2009-01-29T20:48:44","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T20:48:44","slug":"obamas_open_records_pledge_tested_over_citigroup_guarantees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10978","title":{"rendered":"Obama\u2019s Open Records Pledge Tested Over Citigroup Guarantees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. government guarantees on securities totaling $419 billion for bank bailouts provide an early test of President Barack Obama\u2019s pledge to be open with taxpayers about what they have at risk in the credit crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg News asked the Treasury Department Jan. 26 to disclose what securities it backed over the past two months in a second round of actions to prop up Bank of America Corp. and Citigroup Inc. Department spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter said Jan. 27 she would seek an answer. None had been provided by the close of business yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=newsarchive&#038;sid=alINrCmj3dgU\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. government guarantees on securities totaling $419 billion for bank bailouts provide an early test of President Barack Obama\u2019s pledge to be open with taxpayers about what they have at risk in the credit crisis. Bloomberg News asked the Treasury<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10978\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,149,616,151,667],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}