A Newsweek article argues the new Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission should play the role I was advocating for a truth and reconciliation commission to bring daylight and justice to the events leading to the financial crisis.

Michael Hirsh argues:

we don't necessarily need a parade of Wall Streeters headed to the Big House. What we do need, however, is a parade of witnesses who will provide what's been missing so far in this crisis—a prominent outlet for public outrage. In the last nine months, the Obama administration and the grandees in Congress have been designing solutions without much input from the outside, often using experts from Wall Street (especially "Government Sachs"). It's pretty much been a closed system.

Like I said, we need some public, inclusive, truth and reconciliation.

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