Fmr. USAID Administrator: I Served for 22 Years in the Army Reserves, Served in the First Gulf War; ‘I Am Not on the Left’

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NATSIOS: “Every single dollar in the aid budget is already earmarked. We don’t have a lot of choice. And I might add, there’s a federal index of how well managed agencies are. It’s a nonpartisan group, independent, on purely a technical basis, AID is ranked as the third best managed federal agency in the United States government. The notion that the agency are criminals and all that, that’s a lot of garbage. It’s a lie, it’s an insult. And what they do, keep doing, if you, if you repeat a lie long enough, people will begin to believe it. And I speak as a conservative Republican. I worked as a vice president for World Vision, the largest evangelical NGO in the world. I served for 22 years in the Army Reserves. I retired as a Lieutenant Colonel. I served in the first Gulf War. I am not on the left.”