Reason Morning Links: Treasury Won't Disclose TARP Details, Bailout Commitment Up to $12.8 Trillion, More Execs to Get the Axe?

Radley Balko | 4.2.2009 9:04 AM

– Geithner won't rule out firing more executives of private companies.

– Meanwhile, the Treasury Department refuses to disclose details of TARP funding to congressionally-mandated oversight panel created specifically to monitor bailout spending.

– Senate bill would federalize network security, forcing even private companies to use federally-mandated systems.

– Combined federal government commitment on bailouts hits $12.8 trillion, a 70 percent increase since November, and nearly 90 percent of total U.S. GDP for 2008.

– Oregon bill would raise the smoking age to 21.

– New drug czar says at hearing he will focus on demand reduction, prevention rather than enforcement.

Radley Balko is a journalist at The Washington Post.