...the former National Security Advisor during the Clinton Administration said he was prepping for testifying before the 9/11 Commission and checked them out by hiding them in his socks. Surely that must be common somewhere, but not in Detroit, where I work.
Regarding Larry Summers, Sen. Elizabeth Warren pegged the fellow...
What Larry Summers Told Me
by Elizabeth Warren
Bill Moyers.com, September 5, 2014
In early April, I got a call from the office of Larry Summers. I didn’t know Larry well, but I’d met him a few times while he was president of Harvard in the early 2000s. According to reports, Larry had been Tim Geithner’s mentor when they were both in the Treasury Department in the 1990s. Now Larry was the director of the National Economic Council, which meant that, along with Secretary Geithner, he advised President Obama on economic issues. Would I be interested in meeting him for dinner?
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It was a long dinner, with plenty of intense back-and-forth about everything from the bailout, to deregulation, to the foreclosure crisis. I also talked to Larry about an idea I’d been working on for a new consumer financial agency and he seemed interested. We didn’t agree on everything, but I give Larry full credit: I’ll take honest conversation and debate any day of the week over the duck-and-cover stuff I so often saw in Washington that spring.
Late in the evening, Larry leaned back in his chair and offered me some advice. By now, I’d lost count of Larry’s Diet Cokes, and our table was strewn with bits of food and spilled sauces. Larry’s tone was in the friendly-advice category. He teed it up this way: I had a choice. I could be an insider or I could be an outsider. Outsiders can say whatever they want. But people on the inside don’t listen to them. Insiders, however, get lots of access and a chance to push their ideas. People — powerful people — listen to what they have to say. But insiders also understand one unbreakable rule: They don’t criticize other insiders.
I had been warned.
Excerpted from A Fighting Chance by Elizabeth Warren.
https://billmoyers.com/2014/09/05/i-had-been-warned/
Seems those who board the shady yacht do whatever is required to stay aboard the shady yacht.
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