EU officials plotted IMF attack to bring rebellious Italy to its knees

``The former US Treasury Secretary says that EU officials approached him in the white heat of the EMU crisis in November 2011 with a plan to overthrow  Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's elected leader. "They wanted us to refuse to back IMF loans to Italy as long as he refused to go," he writes.''... It is a constitutional scandal of the first order. These officials decided for themselves that the sanctity of monetary union entitled them to overrule the parliamentary process, that means justify the end. It is the definition of a monetary dictatorship.''