Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 June 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. Kevin Cardiff:

No. After six months of fighting with the US Treasury over an FOI request, they gave me one document that was irrelevant. I was almost admiring their manner of handling it. You can have the whole document, if you want it, Deputy, but it's not very helpful. It is, though, documented in Geithner's book in part and so I put the relevant extract in my statement because that is ... we know what happened to an extent but what we don't have is the documentation, because we weren't on the call. So the only documentation I have found is Geithner's book but I can tell you what was recounted back and it was confirmed on phone calls I might have with counterparts in the Treasury that yes, sort of, Geithner was against but the way it was put to me was he wasn't the only one.