Wasn't sure where to put this - I wish I could read the whole article, but my membership expired.
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Countrywide Financial Corp. recorded phone conversations with borrowers in a controversial mortgage program that included public officials -- and that those recordings have been destroyed -- has prompted new congressional calls for more information about the program.
Rep. Darrell Issa of California, the ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is trying to subpoena the remaining records of Countrywide's VIP loan program. So far, the committee's chairman, New York Democratic Rep. Edolphus Towns, has turned down that request.
The committee's Republican staff investigators have spent months looking into the VIP program, and learned of ...
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I find it VERY interesting that they actually kept the tapes and are only now destroying them. I wonder why . . .