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insist on intervening abroad instead of focusing on its own budget woes i was joined our earlier by russ baker he is the founder and editor in chief who lost by dot com he's also the author of family of secrets the bush dynasty the powerful forces that put it in the white house and what their influence means for america i first asked him how much of a role do n.g.o.s have in shaping the public's view of certain conflicts your sake . oh they play a tremendous role as your package mentioned in libya that was the original source of information or at least allegations of these mass atrocities and we later found out were not true right from the beginning on who well why we were asking questions about where that information was coming from we were we were being told it was coming from libyan and human rights groups despite the fact that we've never heard of libyan human rights groups up to that point with syria right now for example there's a human rights watch story that circulated widely in the press i spoke to the researcher for human rights watch the other day i think he's a well meaning fellow