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For the fourth time in six months, the federal government is giving billions of taxpayer dollars to AIG, following the latter's announcement on March 2 of a $61.7 billion fourth-quarter loss--this despite the massive bailout shoveled AIG's way by the Bush administration last September. By the terms of this latest lifeline ("life support" would be a more apt metaphor, since the patient has been clinically dead for many months), the federal government is extending an additional $30 billion in loans to the former insurance giant and allowing more lax repayment terms on an additional $38 billion credit line from the Federal Reserve.
Days later, official Washington ended up in a tizzy over new revelations, courtesy of the Wall Street Journal and dutifully amplified by other news outlets, that as much as $50 ...