Documents obtained under Right to Information (RTI) laws reveal that Carmody blindsided his colleagues with a public statement that he would decide who sat in the court of disputed returns (CDR) during a cliffhanger election result in February.
He told LBC: "I have been completely blindsided today by hearing that the Conservatives – extraordinarily enough – want to line up with Vladimir Putin and other tyrants around the world by tearing up our long tradition of human rights".
The company was blindsided.
A recent report by the Swiss bank regulator shows just how it had been blindsided by a bank that it had once considered saintly.
So without change-of-control safeguards, the danger of being blindsided is growing.According to Louise Purtle, a strategist at CreditSights, a research boutique, two of the biggest recent deals in America, last year's $11.4 billion LBO of SunGard Data Systems, and Koch Industries' takeover of Georgia-Pacific, both gave bondholders an unwelcome surprise.
But a global treaty failed in Copenhagen in 2009 partly because too much happened at the last minute and negotiators felt blindsided.
Alone among al-Qaeda propagandists, al-Awlaki was not blindsided by the Arab spring.
And the African Union, which suspended Egypt as a member after last year's coup, has invited it back in; Mr Sisi is to address its imminent annual summit.Western donors will find it harder to ignore public opinion, as Mr Kerry found to his embarrassment when he announced a release of aid to Egypt, only to be blindsided the next day by the harsh sentences given to the Al Jazeera journalists.
Yes, one could argue both banks were blindsided by the EU crisis but Greece had been bailed out in May 2010 and the problems of Ireland and Portugal were already apparent.Looking forward, will central banks be able to exit their current policy with anything like the ease they assume?
It seems they have been consistently blindsided by how widespread the subprime problems have become as well as complacent about the potential spillover into other areas of the debt markets.At first, investors thought the subprime issue was confined to a few lenders, but the forthright website www.lenderimplode.com suggests that 97 of them have now been hit.
The common theme of both Neil Barofsky's Bailout and Sheila Bair's Bull by the Horns is that the U.S. government cared a lot more about saving the incumbent banks and bankers than it did about helping regular Americans blindsided by the collapse of the housing market and the ensuing contraction.
