{"id":5156,"date":"2010-05-06T19:37:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T23:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5156"},"modified":"2010-05-06T19:37:09","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T23:37:09","slug":"darrell-issa-uncovers-treasury-gm-axel-of-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5156\/darrell-issa-uncovers-treasury-gm-axel-of-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Darrell Issa Uncovers Treasury-GM Axel of Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) is continuing his <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54\/577-the-corruption-stops-here-darrell-issas-war-on-democratic-overreach- \" target=\"_blank\">one-man assault on government corruption<\/a> by calling out the Treasury Department for <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2010\/05\/03\/treasury-includes-self-incriminating-document-in-response-to-issa-attacks\/ \" target=\"_blank\">helping GM lie its way back to respectability<\/a>.\u00a0 Apparently, GM paid off its debt to taxpayers with money from a government (i.e. taxpayer) escrow account and claimed it was free and clear. \u00a0When the Treasury Department parroted the nationalized car company\u2019s line, Issa, the Ranking Republican on the House Oversight Committee, demanded proof.\u00a0 What he got was a document from Treasury stating it \u201cnever\u201d endorsed GM\u2019s claim, accompanied by an attached press release headlined \u2013 no kidding \u2013 \u201cGM REPAYS TREASURY LOAN IN FULL.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t make this stuff up.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: The Daily Caller<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) is continuing his one-man assault on government corruption by calling out the Treasury Department for helping GM lie its way back to respectability.\u00a0 Apparently, GM paid off its debt to taxpayers with money from a government (i.e. taxpayer) escrow account and claimed it was free and clear. \u00a0When the Treasury Department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1132,150,379,1240,1239],"class_list":["post-5156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-bailout","tag-darrell-issa","tag-gm","tag-taxpayer","tag-treasury-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5156"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5160,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156\/revisions\/5160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}