Of course it is. But if Geithner had those beliefs, he had them before he went to any of those meeting. Wilson was stomping for one-world government before any Bittburg group ever existed. The Communist Party was the most influential party in France at the end of WW II not because there was any conspiracy: this belief was shared by many in the open.
Just as you've got to differentiate presidency and presidents, you should differentiate Geithner and the Fed. Gethner may well be a socialist. If so, he would surely advocate policies that you and I do not like. So rail against those policies (as I do); rail against him personally if you prefer. I want his out of office --- any office. That does not mean abolishing the Fed, which is the nonsense you hear on this board day in and day out.
I am not telling you anything new here; I am just urging you to think more carefully. Obama is a socialist. You and I want him out of office. But nobody in his right mind suggests that he gained presidency as a result of a conspiracy, or that there is a conspiracy in the White House. No, everything they do is in the open and very simple: a socialist president surrounded himself with like-minded people, which together do what they believe in. You and I know that it is ruining the country, but that is not a conspiracy: they have a mandate from the American people. Nor do you suggest that, just because we don't like Obama, we should eliminate the office of the president itself.
Do the same in this case. Remember that we have a socialist running the Fed for the first time in history. We have to clean the Fed from such presence just as we have to clean the White House. But calling for the elimination of the Fed is as unfounded and stupid as would be calling for the elimination of the office of the president of the U.S.
P.S. By the way: not only socialists attend Bittburg group --- just as none of our Fed chairmen were socialists.
I did not want to bring it up earlier, but I think you should also know what you are really dealing with here. The original conspiracy theory of the Fed was not about foreign influence or private influence. It was solely about the Jewish conspiracy to enslave the world. It started shortly after the Fed formation, especially in the 1930s. It is not common now to speak about it, but British middle class and much of the American upper class shared Hitler's views on the Jews. And Hitler was not bashful: all of the wars, all of the stock-market crashes, all the poverty and misery in the world were due to behind-the-scenes manipulations by the Jews --- especially the Rothschilds, of course.
While in this country there was great prejudice against the Jews at the time (as well as against Irish, Italians and other Catholics), this European paranoia has never affected American people to the same extent. So especially now, many decades later, a person like you may not even suspect that very many who rail against the banks --- especially Goldman, not JP Morgan or Citi, right? --- and the Fed are pursuing the same agenda.
I am not suggesting even for a minute that you share such prejudice, but you should know where the conspiracy theory originated and that many people that advocate it pursue their own, anti-Jewish, agenda.