from Zero Hedge
The fall of 2008 was a hectic time, when in the aftermath of the Lehman failure, the entire financial system was on the verge of collapse and only the biggest Fed/taxpayer-backed bailout in history avoided an all out depression. Today, as a result of the latest, 12th Podesta leak, we find that then president-elect Barack Obama was also being intimately briefed with unfolding events.
In a previously never before seen confidential memo, sent on November 9, 2008 from current Fed governor Dan Tarullo addressed to Barack Obama, Tarullo send John Podesta an email in which Tarullo, who at the time was not employed by the Fed and was Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, reveals what Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke in which Tarullo was told on a “confidential basis that, before the markets open tomorrow morning, they will be announcing a significant restructuring of the AIG bailout package. They are taking this step in order to avoid what they asserted would be a systemic crisis.“