Geithner's Not On The Block

Just to clarify White House thinking, I asked a senior administration official point blank if the President intended to fire his Treasury Secretary.

"Obama never wanted to fire Geithner," the official said.  "That was not contemplated."

And the same official insists that Geithner is riding through the storm.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2009/03/geithners-not-on-the-block/1603/