Ron Paul REQUEST AUDIT FOR FORT KNOX AND IF THE IMF/FEDERAL RESERVE HAS THE GOLD(HR 1495).flv.temp

Are the gold bars in Fort Knox really made of the precious metal? Or has the government secretly sold off the stockpile and replaced it with tungsten bars that are painted gold?

Ron Paul wants to find out.

Giving legitimacy to aconspiracy theory that the gold in Fort Knox is fake, the iconoclast Republican congressman from Texas has asked adminstration officials to audit the purity of the nation's 700,000 gold bars held in Fort Knox, according to an internal Treasury document obtained by CNBC. Paul, a presidential candidate who chairs the House subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy, had previously called for the U.S. gold reserve to be counted and for a return to the gold standard. He now appears to be going a step further in his request that representatives from the U.S. Treasury Department and the U.S. Mint testify at a subcommittee hearing on June 23 about the authenticity of the nation's gold.

As a postscript to the story, CNBC asked for a tour of Fort Knox to film the gold, since our only footage of Fort Knox is from 1974. An official at the Mint told us that not he was not aware that any member of Congress had toured the facility since that year. Fort Knox is "a closed facility," the official said.

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• federal reserve
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• treasury
• ron paul
• hr 1495
• where is the gold

[Abuzuhayra]

You have people like Senator Ron Paul very good man and you elect the likes of Bush and Obama their something seriously wrong in America.

[quangngy]

Why is Ron Paul getting so much support on the internet? Freedom is popular and the internet is the purest form of a free and open society, all of which Ron Paul advocates. Today is the day that America awakens. It is up to we the PEOPLE to answer the call of liberty and not the controlled media. Ron Paul is doing big things for the people and so the burden falls on our generation to spread the word! thumbs up for others.

[lioness54703]

@HotnessTim ..If America went back on the gold standard..Ron Paul would actually lose money. The value would go down. The reason gold is so is so valuable now is because paper fiat money is worthless. The more worthless our money gets the more valuable the gold gets.

[whitefly2]

@HotnessTim How he has never voted for a tax? The founding fathers were in on this conspiracy because they mandated that No State shall make anything but gold or silver as a payment of debt. Ron Paul was just a boy when that happened I don't think he was in on that.

[Tarasepp]

Ron Paul 2012



[HotnessTim]

Ron Paul has invested a lot of his money in gold. He's entirely self-serving in trying to get a gold standard. He'll get more of your tax dollars if the government needs to buy more gold.

[MartialDuartist]

9:23

HOoLy Shit :)

9:53

wOW! He can do it Twice?! =)

"HuNDRed-TRILLION!, KA'BILLION, TEN MILLION Dollars! ... and 37 cents" :)

[PortugueseGina1]

This man is brilliant...Americans need someone like him!!!

[ledgrip]

Look at the dumbass behind Mr. Jones 30:00 to 33:00

[boudiemaster]

In 2008 it was 'Change!', in 2012 it has become 'Revolution'.

But in fact nothing notable will happen. The US is not the same as it was in 1930, now it's depending on China and the confidence of investors.

[johnnycmajor]

there is not gold there.

[brendanmcwilliams]

No real dirt here, but Bernanke set a precedence of distrust by constantly lying to Congress, and especially Ron Paul.

Glad to hear our gold is there.