Fed to Taxpayers: Up Yours! -- Insists on Hiding Bailout Data

[Octoldit]

Thursday, March 05, 2009

Let's see...If a private entity wanted to suck $700 billion from your hard earned private money to save the economy, wouldn't you want to know -- before you let them have it -- exactly who would get that money and on what terms?

Yet here we are in a situation where private entities - the Federal Reserve Banks - have already swindled $700 billion from private tax payer wallets, which they extorted from us through a bought and paid for public intermediary, which we euphemistically call our government, and they have the gall to tell us it's none of our damn business!

Pardon me if I ask (rhetorically) - what on earth could they be trying to hide???

A whole lot of stolen dollars and the vast criminal networks behind it...
Fed Refuses to Release Bank Lending Data, Insists on Secrecy
By Mark Pittman

March 5 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve Board of Governors receives daily reports on loans to banks and securities firms, the institution said in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Bloomberg News.

The Fed refused yesterday to disclose the names of the borrowers and the loans, alleging that it would cast “a stigma” on recipients of more than $1.9 trillion of emergency credit from U.S. taxpayers and the assets the central bank is accepting as collateral.

The bank provides “select members and staff of the Board of Governors with daily and weekly reports” on Primary Dealer Credit Facility borrowing, said Susan E. McLaughlin, a senior vice president in the markets group of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in a deposition for the Fed. The documents “include the names of the primary dealers that have borrowed from the PDCF, individual loan amounts, composition of securities pledged and rates for specific loans.”

The Board of Governors contends that it’s separate from its member banks, including the Federal Reserve Bank of New York which runs the lending programs. Most documents relevant to the Bloomberg suit are at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which the Fed contends isn’t subject to FOIA law. The Board of Governors has 231 pages of documents, which it is denying access to under an exemption under trade secrets.


What a nifty way to get around the FOIA - just point out the obvious fact that most Americans don't know - the "Federal" Reserve Banks are no more "federal" than Federal Express...and the only "reserves" they ever have come from our wallets!


“I would assume that information would be shared by the Fed and the New York Fed,” said U.S. Representative Scott Garrett, a New Jersey Republican. “At some point, the demand for transparency is paramount to any demand that they have for secrecy.”

Bloomberg sued Nov. 7 under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act requesting details about the terms of 11 Fed lending programs.

‘Financial Crisis’

The Bloomberg lawsuit said the collateral lists “are central tounderstanding and assessing the government’s response to the most cataclysmic financial crisis in America since the Great Depression.”

The Fed stepped into a rescue role that was the original purpose of the Treasury’s $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program. The central bank loans don’t have the oversight safeguards that Congress imposed upon the TARP.

Total Fed lending exceeded $2 trillion for the first time Nov. 6 after rising by 138 percent, or $1.23 trillion, in the 12 weeks since Sept. 14, when central bank governors relaxed collateral standards to accept securities that weren’t rated AAA. Fed lending as of Feb. 25 was $1.92 billion.

Posted Collateral

Bloomberg News, a unit of New York-based Bloomberg LP, on May 21 asked the Fed to provide data on collateral posted from April 4 to May 20. The central bank said June 19 that it needed until July 3 to search documents and determine whether it would make them public. Bloomberg didn’t receive a formal response that would let it file an appeal within the legal time limit.

On Oct. 25, Bloomberg filed another request, expanding the range of when the collateral was posted. It sued Nov. 7.

In response to Bloomberg’s request, the Fed said the U.S. is facing “an unprecedented crisis” in which “loss in confidence in and between financial institutions can occur with lightning speed and devastating effects.”


In other words - Up Yours! None of your damn Business!


Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and then Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said in September they would meet congressional demands for transparency in a $700 billion bailout of the banking system.

The Freedom of Information Act obliges federal agencies to make government documents available to the press and public. The Bloomberg lawsuit, filed in New York, doesn’t seek money damages.

Too bad the whole frecking system is PRIVATE!!!



Bank Opposition
Banks oppose any release of information because that might signal weakness and spur short-selling or a run by depositors, the Fed argued in its response.

“You could make everything a trade secret,” said Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Arlington, Virginia-based Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

The case is Bloomberg LP v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 08-CV-9595, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).

To contact the reporters on this story: Mark Pittman in New York at [email protected].

Write him and thank him for this great piece.

And while you're at it, tell him the gig us up.

Americans are on to these bastards and it's only a matter of time before they wish they had never laid their grubby little hands on that $700 billion.

The Story link: The Truth Will Set You Free: Fed to Taxpayers: Up Yours! -- Insists on Hiding Bailout Data

 

[dilloduck]

Transparency is so hard to see through----can anyone else here do it cuz I'm having problems ?

 

[KittenKoder]

This surprises people?

 

[dilloduck]

This surprises people?

uh---no

 

[Annie]

This surprises people?

Obama, the one from Chicago, was to lead us into the transparency era. Chumbolone™

 

[Octoldit]

Transparency is so hard to see through----can anyone else here do it cuz I'm having problems ?

The whole Federal Reserve ponzi scheme is not the Government, it's a private group of Zionist banking groups that financed Lenin, Stalin, and the whole Soviet Union. They finance worldwide terrorism (including 9-11) to undermine and take over whole Governments. This communist parasitic monster known as the Federal Reserve if not stopped will loot this Government out of existence.

All we fought against in the American Revolution is that of the Federal Reserve, and they never stopped fighting against Americans. It's folly to celebrate the 4 of July when all that was known as the British is embodied in the so-called Federal reserve.

 

[Annie]

Transparency is so hard to see through----can anyone else here do it cuz I'm having problems ?

The whole Federal Reserve ponzi scheme is not the Government, it's a private group of Zionist banking groups that financed Lenin, Stalin, and the whole Soviet Union. They finance worldwide terrorism (including 9-11) to undermine and take over whole Governments. This communist parasitic monster known as the Federal Reserve if not stopped will loot this Government out of existence.

All we fought against in the American Revolution is that of the Federal Reserve, and they never stopped fighting against Americans. It's folly to celebrate the 4 of July when all that was known as the British is embodied in the so-called Federal reserve.

it's all the Jews?

 

[editec]

Transparency is so hard to see through----can anyone else here do it cuz I'm having problems ?

The whole Federal Reserve ponzi scheme is not the Government, it's a private group of Zionist banking groups that financed Lenin, Stalin, and the whole Soviet Union. They finance worldwide terrorism (including 9-11) to undermine and take over whole Governments. This communist parasitic monster known as the Federal Reserve if not stopped will loot this Government out of existence.

All we fought against in the American Revolution is that of the Federal Reserve, and they never stopped fighting against Americans. It's folly to celebrate the 4 of July when all that was known as the British is embodied in the so-called Federal reserve.

it's all the Jews?

That's odd.

All the bankers I know are WASPS.

 

[Annie]

The whole Federal Reserve ponzi scheme is not the Government, it's a private group of Zionist banking groups that financed Lenin, Stalin, and the whole Soviet Union. They finance worldwide terrorism (including 9-11) to undermine and take over whole Governments. This communist parasitic monster known as the Federal Reserve if not stopped will loot this Government out of existence.

All we fought against in the American Revolution is that of the Federal Reserve, and they never stopped fighting against Americans. It's folly to celebrate the 4 of July when all that was known as the British is embodied in the so-called Federal reserve.

it's all the Jews?

That's odd.

All the bankers I know are WASPS.

Me too, though a few Italian-Americans. But probably the area.

 

[Octoldit]

it's all the Jews?

Maybe it's better to post names of the main banks that are at the foundation of the Federal Reserve, or Maybe it's better to post the historical evidence showing abhorrent pattern of how they manipulate and destroy economies dating all the way to the Roman empire. No; maybe it's better to point out how 3% of the American population controls the Media, the economy, and most of the significant positions within the Government.

Maybe it's simply better to point how those that have acquired by deception the ability to print American money can bribe almost anyone. Where does one start the evidence is so overwhelming. How about D. Perle, and the so-called neo-cons that started two recent wars, J. lieberman, Larry Silverstein, Karl Rove, bloomberg who wants a third mayoral term.

Look at all the other double agent within the government that really work for the Israeli's. Rahm Emmanuel, Schumer, and all the rest of network who really work to undermine this Government. Just follow the evidence it's very clear where it leads. Those who are not Jewish if the bribe money was followed it would still lead straight to our enemy within. They even have most of the so-called secret societies bribed and working for them.

 

[Paulie]

Who's D. Perle?

 

[Xenophon]

it's all the Jews?

Isn't it always with some people?

 

[garyd]

Pretty much yes.