US Senator Slams Washington Post Defense Of F

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US Senator Slams Washington Post Defense Of Fed
Secrecy


Sanders: "Absolute power corrupts absolutely"







Steve Watson

Infowars.net

Tuesday, July 28, 2009  





















































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Sanders (I-VT), sponsor of S 604, the Federal Reserve Sunshine Act
of 2009, has slammed a recent Washington Post editorial that
contends the
Federal Reserve should not be subject to a general
audit.  
Sanders vented his opinions in a letter to the editor which was
published in the Post today.  
"We
must not equate 'independence' with secrecy." Sanders writes
in response to the Post's Friday editorial entitled "Focus on the Fed" which
attacked his own and Congressman Ron Paul's efforts to enact the
Federal Reserve Transparency Act,
a move that would allow the American people to find out for the
first time where trillions in taxpayer funded bailout dollars have
been used.  
"No matter how intelligent or well-intentioned the Fed chairman
and his staff may be, it isn't appropriate to give a handful of
people the power to lend an unlimited supply of money to anyone it
wants without sufficient oversight." Sanders writes.  
"Absolute power corrupts absolutely. The American people have a
right to know what is being done with their hard-earned taxpayer
dollars.
This money does not belong to the Fed; it belongs to the American
people." Sanders urges.  
The Washington Post's editorial angered many readers late last
week by essentially advocating the continuation of
non-accountability in government.  
"Though the bill has attracted 276 co-sponsors in the House and
17 in the Senate, it is wrongheaded in the extreme." the Post's
anonymously written piece stated.  
"By opening up the Fed's most sensitive interest rate and credit
policies to public second-guessing, the bill would create a risk --
real and perceived -- of monetary policy bent to suit congressional
overseers. This would destroy financial markets' faith in the Fed
and, by extension, the value of the U.S. dollar, just as surely as
a political 'audit' of the Supreme Court's deliberations would
undercut public faith in the justice system." the piece
claimed.  
"This article makes comparisons that are utterly
dissimilar." Libertymage writer Robin Grammer
succinctly points out.  
"Not only does our justice system make available
verdicts and vote counts the same day that the court votes on the
issue, they also make public the dissenting parties with the
articulated minority opinion. This is a a world of difference from
the transparency policy of the Federal Reserve, who graciously
offers us meeting transcripts five years after the meetings occur.
The transparency policies of these two groups are in no way similar
and making such a comparison is disingenuous at best." he
concludes.  
Furthermore, as Ron Paul himself explained during the
Financial Services Committee hearings last week, the bill would do
nothing to further politicize the Fed's decision making given that
the Fed is already overtly politicized anyway.  
"Just the fact that they can issue a lot of loans
and special privileges to banks and corporations, that's political.
This idea that it would be political because we know what happened
afterwards just doesn't seem to add up." Paul beseeched.  
The bill would not give anyone in Congress or
elsewhere the authority to sit in on Fed hearings, thus it would
have no impact monetary policy. All it would do is provide answers
to the American people as to where their hard earned money is being
spent.  
The Federal Transparency Act would also expose the
fact that
it is the Federal Reserve that is responsible for the artificial
inflation of the debt bubble and the issuing of credit out of thin
air, the driving force behind the financial crises.  
The Truth is that the Washington establishment
knows that an audit would set the stage for a return of honest
money and fiscal policies, in which
the privately run Federal Reserve can play no role.  
It comes as little surprise therefore to see the establishment
media in Washington advocating a continuation of unaccountability
and blanket secrecy.