• It is a tribute to the American people that our leaders perceived that they had to lie to us, it is not a tribute to us that we were so easily misled.

    Daniel Ellsberg: It is a tribute to the American people that our leaders perceived that they had to lie to us, it is not a tribute to us that we were so easily misled.
    "Blowback Strikes US" by Larry Mosqueda, www.counterpunch.org. September 18, 2001.