bar association among others currently mike is a business and finance writer with the institute for public accuracy and is the author of the book the monster gang of predatory lenders and wall street bankers fleeced america and spawned a global crisis mike welcome. but thanks for having me tom i just want to correct you upfront it's an easy mistake to make actually work for the center for public integrity center for public integrity thank you very much mike where does your interest in exposing corporate corruption and greed come from and what attracts you to this field of reporting. right you know as a reporter i try not to come into things with sort of big picture ideas or with an ideology of what's happening. you know i was just reporting on. what was going on at individual lenders individual mortgage companies individual financial institutions and you know as i was doing that i came to see that one of the things one of the questions that maybe at first not consciously but then later consciously but it was really asking is how do you in a large institution how do you get thousands of people who m

public funds because here you have members of these institutions getting subscriptions from strapped for and strapped for is turning around in providing this information but actually the the veracity of it the accuracy of the material that they provide is questionable i mean they even say it in e-mail comparing themselves to the israeli defense forces that like they don't really know the domestic politics going on in these countries so it's questionable what we know. obviously we can link says they have five million e-mails here and messages so it's going to take a while for all of it to come out but if you had to take a guess when do you think of this is a good dump or not because you immediately of course have one part of the journalistic community saying that this is no big deal there are no revelations here but they've said that every other time to and now you see when you leaks cables that have been put out there are pieces from the iraq or afghanistan war logs being mentioned all the time and actually they have made quite a difference well to me the way that the media has been critiquing a sort of like being critical of the resolution of the plot of a movie in the opening credits before you ac