Federal Reserve Seeks to Protect U.S. Bailout Secrets (Update2)

(Updates with argument starting in the 11th paragraph.)

12 Jan 2010 // Jan. 11 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve asked a U.S. appeals court to block a ruling that for the first time would force the central bank to reveal secret identities of financial firms that might have collapsed without the largest government bailout in U.S. history.