With the effort to get senior Senator Chris Dodd to come clean on his VIP mortgages into its 153rd Day, the story takes an ugly turn by adding some old fashioned political repression to the mix – and the New Haven Independent not only has the expose on the issue – they’ve also got the repressed radio interview.  Former State Senator-turned-radioman Tom Scott interviewed Senator Dodd for his WELI-AM radio show and took the opportunity to take Dodd to task for the continuing mortgage scandal.

Scott, who could never be called a shrinking violet, hammered on Dodd - bringing up everything from the father Dodd’s foibles to the mortgage fraud allegations.  Mr. Dodd resorted to non sequitur commentary and meek complaints about the presumption of guilt before Scott finally relented.  But regular Tom Scott listeners never got to hear the dramatic interview because corporate executives at the station repressed it.  Thankfully, NHI has the audio at their site.

CTGOP continues to keep our vigil – the Dodd Watch – until Senator Dodd releases the documents associated with his two mortgages from Countrywide Financial, a notorious player in the subprime mortgage mess.  Countrywide got Dodd two jumbo loans for his place in East Haddam and his Washington, D.C. Townhouse under a VIP Program that gave powerful and well-connected clients sweetheart deals on their mortgages.  The Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee would save, by some estimates, $70,000 or more over the life of the loans and had all sorts of fees waived on the front end of the deal.

Dodd admitted over the summer – back when he let it be known that he was being vetted for Obama’s VP pick – that he shared his financial documents with the Obama vetters.  The Justice Department, it was revealed, has been asking questions of the key players in the VIP Program to see if any federal laws were broken.  Senator Dodd needs to come clean – now.