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"Read my lips: I am generally against imposing new taxes, but would consider such a proposal as part of a compromise to avert a greater economic disaster."

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1992; "In the 1980s, with former CIA Director Bush in the vice presidency, the Reagan administration legalized through Executive Order many of the covert activities previously condemned as illegal immoral and antidemocratic. The Katzenbach recommendation of a "public-private mechanism" finally bore fruit in  the National Endowment for Democracy. NED was the public arm of the Reagan administration's "Project Democracy," an overt-covert intervention and "public diplomacy" operation coordinated by the National Security Council (NSC). In a  speech to the British Parliament on June 8, 1982, President Reagan announced that the U.S. would launch Project Democracy to "foster the infrastructure of democracy, the system of free press, unions, political parties, universities, which allows a people to choose their own way." |http://www.powerbase.info/ index.php/ NED,_CIA,_and_the_Orwellian_Dem ocracy_Project | But what they really did, in addition to supervising elections until the person they wanted was elected, (See Klein's "Shock Doctrine") they instilled a heavy dose of propaganda and "network of overt operatives who during the last ten years have quietly been changing the rules of international politics... doing in public what the CIA used to do in private."

NED, CIA, and the Orwellian Democracy Project

By Holly Sklar and Chip Berlet, Covert Action Number 39 (WInter 1991-92)

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) was first funded in fiscal 1984, an appropriate year for an Orwellian agency making the world safe for hypocrisy. The quasi-private NED does publicly what the CIA has long done and continues to do secretly. Despite successive scandals, U.S. meddling in the internal affairs of other nations — including their "democratic" elections — has not only thrived, it has become respectable.

U.S. manipulation of foreign elections was standard operating procedure well before the CIA's creation. In 1912, for example, the highly-decorated Marine Corps General Smedley Butler wrote his wife Ethel, "Today, Nicaragua has enjoyed a fine 'free election' with only one candidate being allowed to run... In order that this happy event might be pulled off without hitch and to the entire satisfaction of our State Department, we patrolled all the towns to prevent disorders..." In 1935, reporter John Spivak interviewed the then retired Butler, who became a vocal anti-interventionist after being approached to assist a now-forgotten domestic coup attempt against President Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Butler spilled over with anger at the hypocrisy that had marked American interference in the internal affairs of other governments, behind a smokescreen of pious expressions of high-sounding purpose. 'We supervised elections in Haiti,' he said wryly, 'and wherever we supervised them our candidate always won.' " ^ Butler would recognize the old policy of interference behind the new NED smoke screen.

Contemporary covert and overt operatives, working for or with the U.S. presidency, also intervene in the American political process — from manipulating media and public opinion to working to unseat administration critics in Congress. Constitutional checks and balances are voided as Congress exercises its oversight responsibility largely by overlooking wrongdoing, and the courts defer to Congress and the Executive in "national security" matters.