Apparently, this is what “an unprecedented level of openness in Government” looks like:

Via Kirsten Grind at the Puget Sound Business Journal.

The Puget Sound Business Journal for months has asked the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS), the federal agency that regulated Washington Mutual, to release internal communications between WaMu’s regulators.

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On Wednesday, an OTS official told the Business Journal in an email: “After careful review, I have determined that your request, as it pertains to the above-referenced documents, is denied in full.”

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Under the Freedom of Information Act, the Business Journal has received several hundred pages of government emails about WaMu, written during its final months, in which almost all of information is blacked out. Some of those “redacted” emails are posted here.

These emails were released by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., another government agency in charge of WaMu.