FCIC insiders leaked confidential data and prepped bank witnesses

Evidence

The Democrat electoral debacle of November 2010 only exacerbated the tensions underlying the jousting agnotologies within the FCIC, as Rep. Darryl Issa subsequently convened an investigation into the mismanagement of the Inquiry to settle scores in Spring 2011. His subpoenas then unintentionally delivered another lesson in agnotology: it seems Peter Wallison had broken a number of confidentiality rules while serving on the FCIC, leaking secret Fed data to the AEI, while co-chair Bill Thomas secretly prepped many of the representatives of the banks on the level of questions they might expect. The purpose overtly had never been to find new things out, so much as it was to make the preset narrative look good in public. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 897

Categorization

• XREF: Demonstrates what Mirowski elsewhere frames as neoliberal ‘agnotology’ — the systematic production of ignorance; Wallison’s AEI leaks are a concrete mechanism.