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RE: AIG plans to pay $100 million in another round of bonuses
 Many decades ago your paper managed to obtain a reputation during the Watergate Scandal that was repeated during the Pentagon Papers quagmire: neither event was purposeful, but in the end the Post gained a reputation for journalistic endeavor, if not for the public service which resulted as a by-product from these two major stories.
The time has come again for The Washington Post to step up and do the right thing, regarding this latest story. You have “covered” this outrage from the beginning but to date you have yet to weigh in on the side of the public: I suggest that you do this now, despite the fact that you are one of the government’s key organ’s of record and that your paper is one of the most compromised public sources for “news” in the United States today.
Why not publish the names and backgrounds of everyone that is getting these totally criminal-payouts that are neither deserved nor even remotely merited, given the circumstances of their origination? This ought to be thought of as a public service; as opposed to something that someone might think should fall into the category of protecting the privacy of the individuals involved. The money that is being received belongs to the people of this country and is not coming from private-sources, so that lame excuse cannot be used to protect the privacy of these outright criminals.
In fact your license to publish ought to depend upon your willingness to publish this information as a public service,
on page one above the fold. If you chose not to do so – then you need to explain yourselves to the reading public in print; because this crime is happening in your city, and on your
watch.
If your newspaper is not a co-conspirator in this outrageous theft of the public’s money then perhaps you would want to see the entire episode made clear to the entire nation: but if not then I guess the public will just have to decide how much blame to lay on your willingness to cover-up who got what and why; in this continuing scandal that will not go away any time soon!
Hundreds of millions of dollars might be small change to the people getting these kickbacks but to most Americans that’s a lot of money: Money that should never have been paid out to those same people that hijacked this nation in so many ways, beginning back in September of 2009. The Washington Post could use this opportunity to set the record straight and to give the public the information they need to prosecute these felons and to insure that they never work in any area of finance again.
If anyone would like to send this article to the editors at the Washington Post please feel free to do so; as their on-line letters to the editor does not allow the length that this letter is.
Sincerely,
Jim
Kirwan
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