After reading the transcript I believe the government will not play nice, will not cooperate, will muddle the waters to the limit and will thoroughly screen documents out to only hand in those that are useless for plaintiff. What makes Judge Sweeney's warning silly is that it cannot be enforced. Who is going to oversee the Defendant's actions to make sure they stick to this warning?
If she wasn't straightforward about the hit reports, one of the few ways to see if the government is cheating, how in the world will she (and plaintiff) ever know that the government is not "accidentally" leaving critical documents out? Worse yet, now that the government has been warned about the needed consistency between hits and final output who will supervise that the numbers aren't fudged? Where is the transparency in all this?? The hit reports aren't a public document either. This can be forged as well. Hey, we've got 1900 output docs, let's make it 1901 hits!
Now imagine this comical situation where someone at Treasury or the GSEs finds a letter signed by Geithner telling DeMarco to transfer 100% of all future profits for eternity to massacre both the companies and shareholders while flooding government's coffers with needed funds and the person finding the document cheering loudly because they can finally comply with the Judge's warning of sending specific, clearly written documents that state the Treasury was in the driver's seat.
You really have to laugh if you think the Judge seriously considered that the government will do this on their own, unsupervised. Like telling a drug addict alone in a room full of the most potent drugs to abstain... on his own, unsupervised and nobody ever to know whether any drugs had been used or not.
