I would like to see my neighbors own and run these companies in smaller entities not work for these giant pigs.

I have heard that the secrecy around AIG relates to their real owners, a three letter entity of the US. Play with the letters and see what you come up with.

Timothy Geithner conspires to conceal an act such that the coverup likely rises to obstruction of justice at a minimum. His defense is interesting, “If we didn’t do it and deny it; the world as we knew it would have ended.”

Kinda like if the cops in the OJ murder case admitted, “If we didn’t tamper with the evidence OJ might have got away with murder.”

Was it Mark Twain who said, “I’m never sure if we are governed by really smart people who are just putting us on or complete idiots.”