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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1325474, member: 26302&quot;]Sorry if my previous post seemd flippant.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, there IS audits performed every year. The rooms are sealed, and the seals checked, surveillance equipment checked, and a room at random physically checked each year. In such an environment this is a prudent practice, since every time you unseal a room every single ounce has to be reaccounted for and signed off multiple times. The seal provides you the means to not have to do that. This is about the extent of the amount of public information that is out there, and its a separate Federal agency that performs this task each year. </p><p><br /></p><p>Opening up the facility to tourists and camera crews does significantly compromise its security. This is why this action is STRONGLY discouraged for every type of security detail. I do not think the details of the physical security are out on the net for public consumption, just generalities. Giving access to multiple people like this DOES compromise the security. That was my point, to keep it as safe as possible they CANNOT open up the gates and let people prance about. This is the point the people who say &#039;just open it up and show us&quot; either do not understand or minimize. Its not that they are hiding something, its that security protocol, formed over decades of trial and error, end proven in the field, dictates that they don&#039;t. The only way you would ever get this done would be a Presidential decree, and that decree would be over the objections of every single person involved in the security of Ft Knox, or any secure facility the US government protects.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know US government and military security protocol, lets just say that. I have never stepped foot into the bullion depository, though.</p><p><br /></p><p>That is why I am simply saying that the lack of them opening the doors does not prove anything, and if they ever did do that, I would SERIOUSLY question the judgment of whoever was responsible for that decision. For this reason, I am not a supporter of a certain candidate, since he has stated he would open these doors up.</p><p><br /></p><p>The last reason I simply believe its there is: It doesn&#039;t matter. What does it really matter if we have a few hundred billion in gold there? Since it doesn&#039;t matter, WHY would they even bother selling it? If the gold in there was worth half the Federal debt, and the Treasury was having a hard time finding buyers of debt, and then magically we were flush then I would buy this argument more. As it is, its like one years worth of interest payment, not a lot in the scheme of things.</p><p><br /></p><p>As always, just my opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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