{"id":9656,"date":"2025-02-07T12:35:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T18:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/?p=9656"},"modified":"2025-02-07T12:35:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T18:35:51","slug":"usaid-and-the-cia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2025\/02\/usaid-and-the-cia\/","title":{"rendered":"USAID and the CIA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The media said they were a nonpartisan check on power. They weren&#39;t. The US govt. is the largest source of funding for &quot;independent media&quot; worldwide. Many sought partisan regime change. They got away with it by hiding the money &amp; threatening to sue journalists who exposed them. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DF90E3PMap\">https:\/\/t.co\/DF90E3PMap<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dTTfpfZidg\">pic.twitter.com\/dTTfpfZidg<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shellenberger\/status\/1887533688021258533?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 6, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media said they were a nonpartisan check on power. They weren&#39;t. The US govt. is the largest source of funding for &quot;independent media&quot; worldwide. Many sought partisan regime change. They got away with it by hiding the money &amp; threatening to sue journalists who exposed them. https:\/\/t.co\/DF90E3PMap pic.twitter.com\/dTTfpfZidg &mdash; Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) February 6, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[350,85,398],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-deep-state","7":"category-leftism","8":"category-usaid","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9657,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9656\/revisions\/9657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}