The Grayzone debates National Endowment for Democracy VP on group’s CIA ties
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) contacted The Grayzone to dispute our characterization of their organization as a CIA cutout.
Listen to our highly revealing conversation with the NED’s communications director.
On April 4, 2023, National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Vice President of Communications and Public Engagement Leslie Aun contacted me, Alex Rubinstein, to request a phone conversation about an article I published at The Grayzone a day before.
Read the full article on The Grayzone.
C'mon, Alex -- she SAID they have no ties to the CIA, isn't that enough for you? Give a regime-changer a break!
"“How is it pro–democracy to support mobilizations that seek to remove elected leaders?”
“Isn’t that sort of what democracy is?” she fired back in a tacit admission that her organization views foreign meddling and support for violent putschists abroad as an intrinsically democratic act."
And yet, they consider (alleged) Russian meddling in our elections to be "a grave threat to our democracy!" The blatant hypocrisy here is off the charts.