Ron Paul, a Republican Congressman from Texas, described the NED as “nothing more than a costly programme that takes US taxpayer funds to promote favoured politicians and political parties abroad”.
“What the NED does in foreign countries, through its recipient organisations the National Democratic Institute and the International Republican Institute, would be rightly illegal in the US."“The NED injects soft money into the domestic elections of foreign countries in favour of one party or the other."
“It is particularly Orwellian to call US manipulation of foreign elections ‘promoting democracy.’
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