By far the most secret and least accountable operation of the federal government is not, as one might expect, the CIA, DIA, or some other super-secret intelligence agency. The CIA and other intelligence operations are under control of the Congress. They are accountable: a Congressional committee supervises these operations, controls their budgets, and is informed [...]
Ron Paul’s HR1207 bill to audit the Federal Reserve:
This is history in the making, and victory is within reach. Imagine what will happen if HR 1207, The Federal Reserve Transparency Act, comes up for vote in Congress! With one third of the House of Representatives already co-sponsoring this bill, it has real potential to pass [...]
Barbara Ehrenreich, blogger and author of This Land is Their Land, has added her name to the list of 3,270 people endorsing Ron Paul’s and Alan Grayson’s campaign to audit the Federal Reserve.
Also adding their names are:
Michael Greenberger, Law School Professor and Director of the Center for Health and Homeland Security at the University of [...]
Up to now, over 1,400 signatories have endorsed the Fed Transparency petition.
Importantly, earlier Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) has signed on to cosponsor H.R. 1207. Rep. Grijalva brings the total of Democratic cosponsors to 30. There are 136 Republican House members already cosponsoring the bill, and 218 votes are needed in the House for passage.
If readers [...]