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Irish Finance Ministry Reveals It Has Lost Banking Crisis Files
We are sure there is a joke in here somewhere but it is no laughing matter. Following a request for copies of 8 documents of correspondence between Ireland's (former) finance minister and the nations' largest bank executives, the Irish minstry of finance has been forced to admit that it cannot find two out of the eight. The documents, previously 100% redacted, raises questions as to whether other documents have gone 'missing'. As RTE reports, the Department of Finance said it had carried out a widespread search for the documents and it was not clear why the original versions could not be located. Those darn leprechauns... We are sure, however, it has nothing to do with the Irish banks "picking bailout numbers out of their arses."
Documents relating to the banking crisis have gone missing at the Department of Finance.
The department has conceded that some correspondence forwarded from Bank of Ireland to the former minister for finance Brian Lenihan can no longer be located.
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In 2009, the department was asked under Freedom of Information to release copies of all correspondence between the late Mr Lenihan and the chief executives of the banks during the period August 2008 to March 2009.
The department released eight items.
Late last year, Sinn Féin finance spokesperson Pearse Doherty requested repeat copies of these documents.
He was told that two out of the eight could no longer be found.
When released in 2009, both had been completely redacted.
They concerned correspondence between the governor of Bank of Ireland Richard Burrows and an advisor to the Jupiter group, Noel Corcoran.
Jupiter was trying to buy Bank of Ireland at the time.
Mr Doherty said the fact that the department could not locate records was worrying ahead of the banking inquiry.
He said it raised questions as to whether other documents may have gone missing.
In a statement to RTÉ News this evening, the Department of Finance said it had carried out a widespread search for the documents and it was not clear why the original versions could not be located.
It said that it had undertaken a project which would ensure the completeness and integrity of its records from the time of the bank guarantee.
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It said that it was not aware of any documents relating to the bank guarantee which may have gone missing.
Mr Doherty said: "These letters existed in 2009. They were released but the content was fully redacted to a journalist under the Freedom of Information legislation.
"However I have now been informed that these letters have gone missing from the Department of Finance.
"These are some of the only documents between the Governor of the Bank of Ireland and the Minister for Finance during a period when the government decided to pump €3.5m of taxpayers' money into that bank."
He went on to say: "The only reason we know that these documents are missing is because two separate FOIs were made on the same document over a four year period. The question has to be asked about what other sensitive documents have gone missing. The reality is that we may never know.
"If the upcoming banking inquiry is to be successful it is important that all relevant documents are found or returned."
Good job they got that bond issue off eh?
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Lying sacks of shit.
<-- This is my shocked face.
I guess now we see the “quo.”
When Irish debt “smashed expectations,” that was the “quid” – in more ways than one!
Must implicate other countries
Looks like the Irish have been taking lessons from the NJ Mob. I think I see a great opportunity for an Irish version of "The Sopranos" Maybe the McSopranos" or "The Obranos"
Wait a minute - that looks to close to "The Obamos" Maybe I'm on to something.
Every scam eventually is lose files. For example, Apollo Mission is lose telemetry tape.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106637066
Does Boris have loose bowels?
Recent, Boris is insomnia, but bowel is plenty tight. You are concern is much appreciative!
I thought Insomnia was a country next to Bernankistan.
No, you are think of Megalomania.
Perhaps stolen by Iranian militants so they can use it to get to the moon...just to burn the flag we left there.
Who is leave flag!? Where is flag!?
Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in planting a U.S. flag on a lunar rocky knoll.
This plot is going to make for a good movie.
Very interesting plot! Not only is Mr. Oswald to plant flag on moon, but is still alive in 1969! But is believable as $USD multi-billion expense of taxpayer money to lose only proof of accomplishment. You are bring popcorn, Boris is bring refreshing liquid refreshment!
Work in Hitler as the Moon Probe Pilot.
http://mobile.wnd.com/2014/01/shocking-evidence-hitler-escaped-germany/
Can't. Rember that Oswald acted alone. His homemade jetpack was found at his mother's, who happens to be...George H. W. Bush's mother also! Hitler is Oswald's and Bush's papa.
Hey, don't forget Jimmy Carter is a bastard son of Kennedy...look it up. Wheels in wheels in wheels...
Boris:
Perhaps the Apollo mission was just 'a lot of crap?'
You are my favorite Russian.
Dear Bert,
"Lot of EXPENSIVE crap". There is fix for you.
Sincerely,
Boris
(P.S., Boris is for Ukrainian (cossack) descent, but you are very grateful! Spasibo!)
We spent $140 billion on the Apollo missions (today's dollars) but too bad we had to reuse those invaluable moon tapes to save money. Hope we saved more than $140:
An exhaustive, three-year search for some tapes that contained the original footage of the Apollo 11 moonwalk has concluded that they were probably destroyed during a period when NASA was erasing old magnetic tapes and reusing them to record satellite data.
"We're all saddened that they're not there. We all wish we had 20-20 hindsight," says Dick Nafzger, a TV specialist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, who helped lead the search team.
"I don't think anyone in the NASA organization did anything wrong," Nafzger says. "I think it slipped through the cracks, and nobody's happy about it."
"No laughing matter". Agree to disagree. I think it's hilarious. Fucking criminals. All you can do is laugh at this point.
"If I don't see it, it's not illegal!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V_E_Jnyhks
Part of Cozine's motto, and Holder's too.
Part of my motto: "The guillotine blade shall only be as sharp as needed."
They sure are lying and it's going to get worse.
Rope!
Missing Irish documents is NOTHING compared to what will go missing if Congress audits the Fed.
Where are all the moon landing tapes?
the art department is still working on those.
just take a moonrock while you're waiting!.... oh wait... those are also all gone...
same place they put the black boxes for flights from 9/11
And all the security cam vids for the Pentagon on 9/11.
Moon landing telemetry tape is "accidental" erase:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106637066
Just like Bangkok, always twice check before take "waitress" back to hotel.
security cam vids for the Pentagon on 9/11.
Yes, all 84 of them saw nothing. All freedom on information requests denied.
And the seccam vids from around the Murrah building. http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/okc_tapes_195.html
"Truth or Consequences for a pol and crat is: you figure out the truth while you pay the consequences."
you know what they say... if it's missing.... did it happen?
was there ever such a thing like a "banking" or a "crisis"....
Crisis is man made pull from colonic exit, so maybe just make new set of file. All is eventual to go down vortex of commode, so what is big deal!?
Boris..I envy your pragmatism...the world could you more of it...It seems to evade me, but i am trying
I ollied down a 100 stair set once. My homie lost the footy. I'm still flippin mad at him, I tells ya!
Congress audits the Fed............
Can hardly type for laughing.
That's a good one!
"Missing Irish documents is NOTHING compared to what will go missing if Congress audits the Fed."
and that is NOTHING compared to what will be found missing if Germany ever audits its gold holdings at the Fed.
Maybe someone left them in a box of Lucky Charms®?
Might I remind the distinguished readership that it was telling Ireland that they would be permitted to default that got Dominque Strauss-Kahn framed and LaGarde in.
You mean we're not low-brow anymore?
I got confirmation of that from 'a usually reliable source' as they say. Could well be true.
They're magically suspicious!
OK, I don't care who you are, that's funny right there.
"Magna Carta goes missing; mysteriously burned and erased, expunged from history. No film at 11:00."
Speaking of Films.... Assault on Wall Street is a must watch for ZH's. Actual events coming to a financial center near you
Kinda like the US constitution.
TPTB seem to have lost that too, as have Judges.
Well...at least Jefferson got a memorial. He wouldn't have liked that as...obviously...nothing terrified him more than a centralized State...indeed he spent his entire life fighting against that. He'd be even more terrified of the "Abraham" Lincoln Monument sitting in a stark and stern repose kinda reminding you "something bad comes this way." He'd probably get a good chuckle relative to the Washington Monument though..."that was George all right." The White House, the State Department, the Pentagon, the Fed, the CIA (with off ramp), the FBI, the NSA, the Treasury Department...he was a techie for his time...and i think he'd be like "wtf, over?" and then probably blame John Adams "who put that library there and gave all these people all sorts of bad ideas." he did have a great solution to the "statist impulses" of the day though: buy 36 million acres. "here, have some free land. now cut yer bitchin' and don't tell me the Government never did anything for ya'."
I wonder if old G Gordon Liddy has recently been to the Emerald Isle?
pods
I'm just watching Watergate.... good movie...
Last of the Nixon tapes are out.
"It's all about a crappy thing that didn't work ! Nothing worked ! Nobody got a goddam thing out of it, damn bugging !
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/22/us/politics/last-of-the-nixon-tapes-are-going-online.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0
the banking crisis has gone missing.
Or stick them in their own WTC#7 and ... well, we know the rest of that story :(
Oops!
Sitting in the jail cell will help his memory find the files.
Fat chance of that. Nobody goes to jail
Ah sweet! The American Banking elite can only hope to be this lucky!
who cares?
malware site?
no, it's the world's first 24-hour music video.
it's kind of cute watching all the people dance/walk in public places, and the tune has a nice groove.
Fuckers probably can't find the tape deck and the Creedence either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sft3VHxru2s
You fuckin' this up, Dude?
Warehouse 13?
They lost the files? Then they should stop paying unless the other party can produce something legit. Guy Fawkes rules in the meantime.
Vote Guy Fawkes - the only man ever to enter the Houses of Parliament with honest intentions.
The Irish have always been debt slaves and always will, they will only fight over trivial things, not what truly matters. Damn their servitude
They've always been on the wrong end of the balance of power.
Sound familiar?
That's on page 59 of JPM's PlayBook ' Theft is really Borrowing, 101 '
Don't wake up in a roadside ditch.
Get rid of evidence.
The dog ate my homework.
Probably both Snowden and the NSA could get them a copy of the missing documents in a pinch.
Don't worry Mr. Doherty. Nobody holds gov'ts accountable. At the very worst, you'll have to accept your golden parachute and go work for a different bank.
The documents are with the missing 18 1/2 minutes and Obama's Columbia U. records--in the "Memory Hole."
da guiness ate ma homework
I wondered where Sandy Berger ended up working.
see....? what did i tell u ??
Excuse me. Somehow I stumbled into a Monty Python skit
Maybe they got put on my desk.
The Bermuda triangle of paperwork.