When The Washington Examiner first reported on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, officials with the panel refused to disclose how it was spending its $8 million taxpayer-funded budget.

Former California State Treasurer Phil Angelides is chairman of the FCIC, which is supposed to report back to Congress on Dec. 15.

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