The federal government has posted hundreds of pages of interviews and research from the government’s official effort to get to the bottom of the financial crisis.

The National Archives Friday made public research documents from the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC), a governmental panel charged with finding who was to blame for the financial collapse of 2008 and 2009.

The newly released documents include a host of interview notes and transcripts with FCIC staff and major players in the world of finance. Among the transcripts released are former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and Goldman Sachs chief executive Lloyd Blankfein.

The documents are coming to light now because the country recently passed the five-year anniversary of the FCIC issuing its official report, which came out in January 2011. The Archives noted that Friday’s release was just a sample of the FCIC’s work, which eventually took…