When the President starts lying he begins to need evidence to back up
\nhis lies because in this democracy he is questioned on his statements.
\nIt then percolates down through the bureaucracy that you are helping
\nthe Boss if you come up with evidence that is supportive of our public
\nposition and you are distinctly unhelpful if you commit to paper
\nstatements that might leak to the wrong people.<\/p>\n
The effect
\nof that is to poison the flow of information to the President himself
\nand to create a situation where a President can be almost, to use a
\nmetaphor, psychotically divorced from the realities in which he is
\nacting…
– Daniel Ellsburg to the US Senate on Foreign Relations, May 13, 1970<\/p>\n
=<\/p>\n
“The
\nmost brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one
\nfundamental principle is borne in mind constantly…it must confine
\nitself to a few points and repeat them over and over.
– Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister<\/p>\n
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