CBS, AP: Dem chair of House Oversight covered up ties to Countrywide for himself, colleagues, and staff « Hot Air

CBS, AP: Dem chair of House Oversight covered up ties to Countrywide for himself, colleagues, and staff « Hot Air: "How did Countrywide end up as one of the worst villains in the housing-bubble collapse, which cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars and nearly crushed the financial sector?  Simple: they bought political connections by offering sweetheart deals to people like Chris Dodd, who headed the Senate Banking Committee, and Towns, whose committee was supposed to keep corruption out of federal regulation of the market.  When the entire mess collapsed, people like Dodd and Towns were in position to manipulate the investigations in order to avoid detection.  Dodd was less successful at that effort than Towns, who got away with it as long as Democrats remained in charge of Congress — and the White House, which has been mighty incurious on the whole issue since running on populist outrage over the housing-bubble collapse.

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