Supported by the real heroes a phalanx of bleary-eyed staffers Mr Paulson, Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, and Tim Geithner, head of the New York Fed (and now Mr Paulson's successor as treasury secretary), rushed to string together loans, guarantees and whatever else was needed, interpreting the law creatively to get things done.
Unprotected by unions or labour laws, such staff creatively cope with their situation by accommodation rather than overt resistance.
Psychoanalysis is presented as a counter-depressant, as are art and writing, able not only to keep the drives or semiotic forces moving through language but also to foster their revolutionary potential to transgress symbolic limits and laws and to creatively rework self and society.
And it amounts to nothing more than that, no matter how creatively the law's opponents try to interpret those words.
Barbara Potopowitz, public information officer of the state's Permanent Commission on the Status of Women, said the law pushes workplaces to think creatively about how to provide a private space.
But if it accepts the principle that secular state institutions must have absolute primacy in at every stage then it loses all control over the fate of people under its authority.As is pointed out by Marco Ventura, a professor who thinks creatively about canon law, the nature of the dilemma varies from country to country.
And this is one of the most intriguing parts of Code for America's mission: to expose policy-makers to the tools and technologies of the Internet as a way of prompting them to think more creatively about the law.
It is unfortunate that a quarter of the states have started off on the wrong foot, challenging the law rather than working with it creatively to serve their own citizens' interests.
The former chief of the Seattle Police Department in the US, Jim Pugel, said police there were recognising politicians were too slow to change the law, and so police were working creatively until policy could officially catch up.
Law and public policy must think creatively about ways to solve this dilemma so that the stigma they seek to eliminate is not in effect reinforced.
Transparency, the pro-Leahy groups argue, would serve as a warning if the government once again starts to creatively re-interpret surveillance laws.
