The GSEs also passed the stress tests just days before they were taken over while the TBTF banks were not passing the stress tests and nothing happened to them. This was nothing short of a political hit job. You need to throw out common sense when analyzing this.
There IS no 180 billion. If there were, we'd be released. You have it the wrongvway around. The government wants out of guarnteeing the GSE's. They want to use INVESTOR CAPITAL AS FIRST INLINE LOSS.