{"id":60722,"date":"2016-12-17T14:25:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T18:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=60722"},"modified":"2016-12-17T14:25:35","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T18:25:35","slug":"cia-meddled-in-hundreds-of-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=60722","title":{"rendered":"CIA meddled in \u2018hundreds\u2019 of elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"article__heading\">Ron Paul talks Russia-blaming, fake news and more on RT<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>RT.com<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Clinton: Putin launched hacking attack on me out of \u2018personal beef\u2019\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/skQN8zct-ow?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text \">\n<p>US government \u201cpropagandists\u201d push for a foreign policy of \u201cintervening around the world,\u201d former presidential candidate and founder of the Institute for Peace and Prosperity, Dr. Ron Paul, told RT in a wide-ranging interview that also touched on Syria.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI think they&#8217;re just agitating, because they lost the election. They&#8217;re throwing out accusations and they have no proof,\u201d<\/em> the former Republican congressman for Texas said.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe same people who are making all these charges, they didn\u2019t seem to be worried a bit by the secretary of state having a private server,\u201d<\/em> Paul said, <em>\u201cwhich made it much easier for Russia or anybody else to know what was going on.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Paul, a libertarian advocate of a foreign policy of non-intervention, went on to explain that ideally, the US should not have to worry about any other country having an incentive to interfere in US elections. The root of the problem, Paul believes, is in the US government doing the exact thing it now accuses Russia of doing.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe American people should be worried about the influence of our CIA in other people&#8217;s elections, I mean probably hundreds. It&#8217;s constant,\u201d<\/em> he said, even going as far as to allude to <em>\u201cdomestic assassinations\u201d<\/em> the CIA has allegedly taken part in.<\/p>\n<p>Paul then brought his two points together in describing a sort of shadow government in cahoots with the major media, saying that the anti-Russian narrative was being promulgated in order to <em>\u201camplify the arguments between Republicans and Democrats,\u201d<\/em> which he discounted as political theater.<\/p>\n<div class=\"arcticle__read-more read-more\">\n<div class=\"read-more__title\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/370574-obama-year-end-russia\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"read-more__cover\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.rt.com\/files\/2016.12\/thumbnail\/5854697bc46188564a8b45b8.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to journalists as he participates in his last news conference of the year at the White House in Washington, U.S., December 16, 2016. \u00a9 Carlos Barria\" \/><span class=\"read-more__footer\">Obama blames Russia for hacking, says response won&#8217;t be public<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><em>\u201cOur government doesn&#8217;t change a whole lot,\u201d<\/em> Paul explained. <em>\u201cThe people, who behind the scenes control the government, are always the same. And I consider that to be the case in most governments.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe propagandists are on the side of the people who want us to be intervening around the world, and I imagine that because Trump has suggested maybe we ought to do a little bit less of that, maybe they don\u2019t like that idea, and they want to discredit him for that approach,\u201d<\/em> Paul said.<\/p>\n<p>Moving to the matter of <em>\u201cfake news,\u201d<\/em> another controversial issue heating up after the November election result, Paul was asked about Facebook unrolling a new policy of fact-checking, potentially pushing down news stories in its News Feed.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIf it&#8217;s a private organization,\u201d<\/em> Paul said, <em>\u201cthey have a right to monitor. And they probably will make mistakes, but that is so much different than when a company like Facebook works with the government. That&#8217;s where the real danger is.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/370596-ron-paul-cia-russia-fake-news\/\">http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/370596-ron-paul-cia-russia-fake-news\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Paul talks Russia-blaming, fake news and more on RT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}