It's bad enough they spent $800 billion on god-knows-what (we still don't have a complete accounting). But the report by Special Inspector General Neil Barofsky is so ridiculously critical of the Treasury Department's handling of TARP funds and procedures, that it seems that not only heads should roll, but people should go to jail.

The Examiner has excerpts from the IG's report:

When Treasury refuses for more than a year to require TARP recipients to account for the use of TARP funds, or claims that Capital Purchase Program participants were "healthy, viable" institutions knowing full well that some are not, or when it provides hundreds of billions of dollars in TARP assistance to institutions, and then relies on those same institutions to self-report any violations of their obligations to TARP, it damages the public's trust to a degree that is difficult to repair.

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[T]he most specific of TARP's Main Street goals, "preserving homeownership," has so far fallen woefully short, with TARP's portion of the Administration's mortgage modification program yielding only approximately 207,000 (out of a total of 467,000) ongoing permanent modifications since TARP's inception, a number that stands in stark contrast to the 5.5 million homes receiving foreclosure filings and more than 1.7 million homes that have been lost to foreclosure since January 2009.

TARP has failed to ‘increase lending,' with small businesses in particular unable to secure badly needed credit. Indeed, even now, overall lending continues to contract, despite the hundreds of billions of TARP dollars provided to banks with the express purpose to increase lending.

...[M]any Americans to continue to view TARP with anger, cynicism, and mistrust. While some of that hostility may be misplaced, much of it is based on entirely legitimate concerns about the lack of transparency, program mismanagement and flawed decision-making processes that continue to plague the program.