The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission was always destined to fail. It had an enormous task: Tell us what—and who—caused the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression. For that, it was stacked with bipartisan political appointees (rather than say, seasoned prosecutors), assigned a hard deadline of a little more than a year, and handed an appalling $10 million budget.
via New questions about the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission : Columbia Journalism Review.
