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Anonymous

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Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, ordering Admiral Lawrence Geis to recall Sixth Fleet aircraft that were on their way to drive off Israeli military forces who were attempting to murder the entire crew of the minimally armed surveillance ship USS Liberty in the Mediterranean Sea during the 1967 Six-Day War.

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Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. . . . They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson

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I take my daily orders from Dr. Kissinger, filtered down through Generaal [sic] Brent Scowcroft and Sandy Berger [All three are retired from government service, but are Council on Foreign Relations members]

James L. Jones, U.S. National Security Advisor, Feb 18, 2009

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. . . it’s good to have an [new] outpost of the Council [on Foreign Relations] right here down the street from the State Department. We get a lot of advice from the Council, so this will mean I won’t have as far to go to be told what we should be doing and how we should think about the future.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Foreign Policy Address at the Council on Foreign Relations, July 15, 2009

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Ethiopia Aid Went for Weapons Instead

Submitted by Guest on Tue, 03/02/2010 - 21:42

by Martin Plaut
Africa editor, BBC World Service News

Millions of dollars earmarked for victims of the Ethiopian famine of 1984-85 went on buying weapons, the BBC has learned.

An investigation found claims that a rebel movement in Ethiopia diverted the aid to fund its attempt to overthrow the government of the time.

Rebel soldiers said they posed as merchants as "a trick for the NGOs".

Documents released by the CIA confirmed aid was "almost certainly being diverted for military purposes".

Drought had wiped out crops and an estimated one million people died. Millions were saved by the western aid that poured into the country.

But not all went to its intended destination.

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