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. My report detailed the open justification of the terrorist bombing of […]
I think its a front. She’s projecting this sort of persona on purpose, she is very careful with what she says, and dodges questions that she knows are not answerable. The NED works with plenty of “independent” news organizations, I bet she was hoping to try and get the Grayzone into their orbit somehow, but in this instance she was not expecting to be hit with this type of questioning.
If she was smart she would have simply not decided to get on a call with two journalists whose career is founded upon peering into the machinations of the US deep state. Claims like “NED is a CIA cutout” are incredibly easy to back up. If she had not been marinating in the kool aid of her own employer she would have known this.
This is a good point, but I would chalk it up to simply not having done enough research about the Grayzone, rather than calling in to defend the NED out of genuine belief borne from ignorance of the fact that its a CIA cutout.
I think its a front. She’s projecting this sort of persona on purpose, she is very careful with what she says, and dodges questions that she knows are not answerable. The NED works with plenty of “independent” news organizations, I bet she was hoping to try and get the Grayzone into their orbit somehow, but in this instance she was not expecting to be hit with this type of questioning.
If she was smart she would have simply not decided to get on a call with two journalists whose career is founded upon peering into the machinations of the US deep state. Claims like “NED is a CIA cutout” are incredibly easy to back up. If she had not been marinating in the kool aid of her own employer she would have known this.
This is a good point, but I would chalk it up to simply not having done enough research about the Grayzone, rather than calling in to defend the NED out of genuine belief borne from ignorance of the fact that its a CIA cutout.