by Mark Silva and updated
The Treasury Department has promised greater "transparency,'' particularly in the spending of those billions of dollars of bailout funds that Treasury has lent to bankers, insurers and the auto industry.
But, for a while this afternoon, the only thing transparent at the Treasury Department's Web-site was the password protection blocking passage beyond a home-page.
"The file or directory you are trying to access could not be found,'' the blocked Treasury page told us. "If you have reached this page by selecting a bookmark that worked previously, it is likely the file has moved to a new location because of our recent redesign.
"The Treasury has redesigned its website to make it easier and faster for you to find the information you need. To navigate to the new, redesigned Treasury site, go to the home page or click on any link in the left or top navigation areas.''
All you needed was a password.
We called in to Treasury to report the outage, and sure enough the Website is working again. Must be that "Mr. Fix It,'' Steve Rattner, who Treasury called in from Wall Street to fix the bailouts.The Wall Street Journal featured Mr. Fix-it on Page One today.
Don't go looking for Rattner at the Treasury Web-site though: "Your search - steven rattner - did not match any documents. No pages were found containing "steven rattner".
Comments
Do you normally make it a habit to post a blog article every time a site has a bug?
Posted by: Joe | April 6, 2009 4:24 PM
This is like Geithner saying he "would consider" firing bailout beneficiaries' CEOs like Vikram Bandit, when Detroit recoiled at firing Wagoner.
He only said that with his fingers crossed behind his back.
Same with his claim of "transparency".
There was no transparency on the identities of AIG's counterparties, was there?
The public will never find out what Paulson and Geithner have done with all the bailout $$$$$.
Posted by: uncle miltie | April 7, 2009 8:45 AM