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Murray N. Rothbard

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 of their covert activities. It is true that the committee hearings and activities are closed to the public; but at least the people's representatives in Congress insure some accountability for these secret agencies.

It is little known, however, that there is a federal agency that tops the others in secrecy by a country mile. The Federal Reserve System is accountable to no one; it has no budget; it is subject to no audit; and no Congressional committee knows of, or can truly supervise, its operations. The Federal Reserve, virtually in total control of the nation's vital monetary system, is accountable to nobody – and this strange situation, if acknowledged at all, is invariably trumpeted as a virtue.

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From the Capitol Hill Gold Conference sponsored by the Ludwig von Mises Institute,Washington, D.C. November 1983.

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Thanks to Paul Bourgeois - a true patriot

Yesterday

3/6/08 -- 10 min

Thanks to NufffRespect

This is the Oscar winning documentary about an innocent Afghan taxi driver who was beaten to death by American soldiers while being held in extrajudicial detention at the Bagram Air Base. The film examines America's policy on torture and interrogation in general.

2/28/08