House Investigating Obama Treasury Dept. Trying to Influence S&P Outlook; WaPo Buries Story on A14

Last week I noted how the Washington Post published on page A5 a story about how Obama Treasury officials tried but failed to influence Standard & Poor's credit analysts from downgrading the U.S. government's credit outlook from “stable” to “negative.” Today the Post buried on page A14 a story by staffer Zachary Goldfarb about a House of Representatives investigation into the matter: A House investigative committee is inquiring about discussions held by Treasury Department officials with Standard & Poor’s before the credit rating agency lowered its outlook on the United States last week.

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