63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want To Read, by Jesse Ventura: on Foreign Policy


Bill Clinton: 1994: Briefed on Rwandan genocide but claimed ignorance

The callousness of our government is shockingly clear when you look back at the Clinton administration's position on the genocide that took place in Rwanda in 1994. For the three-month period starting in April that year, Hutu death squads slaughtered an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate members of their own tribe.

A few years later, when Clinton visited Rwandan capital of Kigali, the president said: "It may seem strange to you here, especially the many of you who lost members of your family, but all over the world there were people like me sitting in the offices, day after day after day, who did fully appreciate the depth and speed with which you were being engulfed by this unimaginable terror."

The CIA's national intelligence daily, a secret briefing that went to Clinton and Vice President Gore and hundreds of senior officials, had almost daily reports on what was happening in Rwanda.

Source: 63 Documents, by Gov. Jesse Ventura, p.103 Apr 4, 2011

Jesse Ventura: After WWII, we put top Nazis to work for us

If you believe in things like making a pact with the devil, you might say that our intelligence agencies did just that at the end of WWII. That's when we started giving many of Hitler's top henchmen not only sanctuary, but putting these same Nazis to wor for us. The Cold War with the Soviet Union was beginning--and the excuse was that we needed every bit of scientific expertise that we could get.

It almost seems to me that the Cold War was staged so the weapons manufacturers and others could make money off it. Otherwise, how could we go from being allies with the Russians all through the war to their becoming our bitter enemies almost overnight?

And I find it outrageous that some of the leading Nazis were brought over here because it was apparently more important to fight the Cold War than to hold them responsible for what they'd done.

There should have been a thorough vetting done by this country--and not secretly but in public--so American people knew which Nazis were coming and why.

Source: 63 Documents, by Gov. Jesse Ventura, p. 80 Apr 4, 2011

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