To begin unpacking the report of Outside Counsel Billy Martin on the matter of Representative Maxine Waters, I will start with the meeting that took place on September 9, 2008 at the Treasury Department. This meeting is key to understanding the events that took place, and the evidence is very clear as to what transpired. Yet for some reason Outside Counsel seems more interested in obscuring than in illuminating these facts.
The September 9 meeting was memorialized in this one-page memorandum dated that same day and sent by Erika Jeffers, a House Financial Services Committee counsel, to Chairman Barney Frank.
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