{"id":417179,"date":"2010-03-11T11:27:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T16:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.com\/blog.php?view=33422"},"modified":"2010-03-11T11:27:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T16:27:18","slug":"answers-sought-from-ben-bernanke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/417179","title":{"rendered":"Answers Sought from Ben Bernanke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Hawes<\/p>\n<p>House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank has written a letter to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke asking him to &#8220;fully investigate&#8221; possible incidents of Fed wrongdoing during the 1970s and 1980s.&nbsp; Congressman Paul raised concerns about these incidents during a recent Committee hearing.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;During your Humphrey-Hawkins testimony before this Committee last week, Representative Ron Paul raised questions about inappropriate political interference with the Federal Reserve System resulting in hidden transfers of resources to facilitate crimes during the Watergate scandal in the 1970s, and to Iraq for weapons purchases during the 1980s.&nbsp; These are serious allegations and must be fully investigated.&nbsp; I expect that you will do so promptly, and share the results of your investigation with Congress.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\/paul\/FedLetter.pdf\" >Read the rest.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Hawes House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank has written a letter to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke asking him to &#8220;fully investigate&#8221; possible incidents of Fed wrongdoing during the 1970s and 1980s.&nbsp; Congressman Paul raised concerns about these incidents during a recent Committee hearing. &#8220;During your Humphrey-Hawkins testimony before this Committee last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3999,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3999"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}