Hillary Clinton (a CFR), has explicitly confirmed what critics of the Council on Foreign Relations have often charged: that the Council unofficially runs the U.S. State Department, and has virtually taken control of the entire executive branch of the federal government, regardless of which party may occupy the White House. In a famous speech at the Council on Foreign Relations’ Washington, D.C., office in 2009, Secretary Clinton referred to the CFR’s Pratt House headquarters in New York City as the “mother ship” and said she had been there often. She was glad, she said, that the CFR’s new Washington headquarters is so close to the State Department, making it easier to be “told what we should be doing and how we should think.”
As difficult as that may be to believe, here is a listing of the members of the State Department’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board, that had its inaugural meeting in December 2011. Of the 25 members, 22 members (88%), are members of the Council on Foreign Relations, including one of its current co-chairmen (Carla Hills). The other three members names could not be found on any partial membership lists for the CFR, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t also members. If the CFR doesn’t control the State Department, why was the Foreign Affairs Policy Board created in the first place, and staffed almost exclusively with CFR members including a current co-chairman? It’s interesting to note that the CFR publishes a magazine titled Foreign Affairs.
In 1939, following the outbreak of war in Europe, Norman H. Davis chaired the steering committee of the Council on Foreign Relations’ War and Peace Studies project, created to advise the U.S. Government on wartime policy. He was the president of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1936 – 1944, after having been U. S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and U. S. Under Secretary of State. Why would the federal government take advice from an organization that is dedicated to destroying the government? Perhaps because President Roosevelt and other members of his administrations were members of the Council on Foreign Relations. The Bilderberg Group, another secret society, has been choosing the president and vice president since Bill Clinton (BB, CFR, TC) was elected president in 1992. In 1991, Bill Clinton was an unknown governor of a southern state, running for president. Then, he attended the Bilderberg Group meeting where he met David Rockefeller (BB, CFR, TC), the only member of the Bilderberg Group’s Member Advisory Group. Rockefeller asked Clinton what he thought about NAFTA, which Clinton hadn’t heard of. Rockefeller explained why it was important to the Bilderberg Group, and Clinton replied that if it was important to the Bilderbergs, it was important to him. Eighteen months later Clinton was elected president. On January 1, 1994, NAFTA became law. NAFTA has been very damaging to the United States, but very profitable for special interests.
It is now an accepted ritual in the process of running for president for Republican hopefuls to make a pilgrimage to the revered (or reviled, depending on your opinion) Bilderberg Group kingmaker Henry Kissinger (BB, CFR, TC), former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor, to get his blessing. In 2009, then National Security Advisor James Jones (BB), a retired 4-star Marine Corps General, gave a speech in Germany in which he said, “As the most recent National Security Advisor of the United States, I take my daily orders from Dr. Kissinger, filtered down through Generaal Brent Scowcroft (CFR) and Sandy Berger (CFR), who is also here. We have a chain of command in the National Security Council that exists today.”
In 2012, then Defense Secretary Leon Panetta (CFR) testified before Congress that the UN and NATO tell the U. S. military what to do, NOT the U. S. Congress as stated in the Constitution! And Congress did nothing in response to that statement! Why? Perhaps because 30% of them are Communists and/or traitors that belong to the same secret societies in control. The Departments of State, Treasury, and War (Defense) were created in 1789, as was the position of Attorney General. The Department of War was renamed the Department of Defense in 1947. The order of succession to the presidency is the Vice President is No. 1, the Speaker of the House is No. 2, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate is No. 3, the Secretary of State is No. 4, the Secretary of the Treasury is No. 5, the Secretary of Defense is No. 6, and the Attorney General is No. 7. More than 50% of the presidential cabinet, including the president himself, are members of secret societies, predominantly the Council on Foreign Relations. Other cabinet members could also be members of secret societies, but their names haven’t been found on any partial membership lists. The goal of all secret societies is the destruction of the United States by eliminating national sovereignty. This is a definition of treason. Therefore, any member of a secret society is a traitor to the United States, no matter what position in government that person occupies, including the presidency. If the president and vice president are both chosen by the Bilderberg Group; the Secretaries of State, Treasury, and Defense are almost always members of the Council on Foreign Relations; the Attorney General is frequently a CFR; and the State Department’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board is almost 90% CFR members, the government is obviously controlled by foreign entities who think they are above the law.
Some of the secret society federal employees that have worked for the government during the Trump Administration —
| Government Office | Position | Term of Service | Name | Bilderberg Group | Council On Foreign Relations | Trilateral Commission | Comments |
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| Some of the current employees of the Trump presidency-- | |||||||
| Commerce Department | Secretary | 2017 - present | Wilbur Ross | Yes | |||
| Assistant Secretary of Commerce -- Global Markets | 2017 - present | Elizabeth Erin Walsh | Yes | ||||
| Director General of United States Commercial Service | 2017 - present | Elizabeth Erin Walsh | Yes | ||||
| Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration | 2017 - present | Mira Ricardel | Yes | ||||
| Defense Department | Secretary | 2017 - present | James N. Mattis | Yes | |||
| Deputy Defense Secretary | 2017 - present | Pat Shanahan | Yes | ||||
| Secretary of the Air Force | 2017 - present | Heather Wilson | Yes | ||||
| Energy Department | Secretary | 2017 - present | Rick Perry | Yes | Yes | ||
| Federal Reserve | Chairman | 2014 - present | Janet Yellen | Yes | Holdover from the Obama administration | ||
| Board of Governors Member | 2014 - present | Lael Brainard | Yes | Yes | Holdover from the Obama administration Married to Kurt M. Campbell Former Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs |
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| Securities and Exchange Commission | SEC Chairman | 2017 - present | Jay Clayton | Yes | |||
| Small Business Administration | Administrator | 2017 - present | Linda McMahon | Yes | |||
| State Department | Secretary | 2017 - Present | Rex Tillerson | Yes | |||
| Ambassador | 2017 - Present | Jon Huntsman, Jr. | Yes | Yes | Ambassador to Russia Former Chairman of the Atlantic Council Former governor of Utah Former ambassador to China |
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| 2017 - Present | Robert Wood "Woody" Johnson | Yes | Ambassador to the United Kingdom | ||||
| Foreign Affairs Policy Board Chairman | 2011 - Present | Strobe Talbott | Yes | Yes | Holdover from the Obama administration President of the Brookings Institution Former Deputy Secretary of State |
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| Foreign Affairs Policy Board Member | 2014 - Present | R. Nicholas Burns | Yes | Yes | Holdover from the Obama administration Current member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations |
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| 2014 - Present | Johnnie Carson | Yes | Holdover from the Obama administration | ||||
| 2014 - Present | Stephen A. Cheney | Yes | Holdover from the Obama administration U. S. Marine Corps Brigadier General, retired |
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| 2014 - Present | Nelson Cunningham | Yes | Holdover from the Obama administration | ||||
| 2014 - Present | Karen Donfried | Yes | Holdover from the Obama administration | ||||
| 2014 - Present | Anne M. Finucane | Yes | Holdover from the Obama administration | ||||
| 2011 - Present | Stephen Hadley | Yes | Holdover from the Obama administration Current member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations |
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| 2011 - Present | Jane Harman | Yes | Holdover from the Obama administration | ||||
| 2011 - Present | Carla Hills | Yes | Holdover from the Obama administration Former Co-chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations |
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| 2011 - Present | Robert Kagan | Yes | Holdover from the Obama administration | ||||
| 2011 - Present | Mike Mullen | Yes | Yes | Holdover from the Obama administration U. S. Navy Admiral, retired Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff |
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| 2011 - Present | Vali Nasr | Yes | Holdover from the Obama administration | ||||
| 2011 - Present | John Negroponte | Yes | Yes | Holdover from the Obama administration Former Deputy Secretary of State Former Director of National Intelligence |
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| 2014 - present | Joseph Nye | Yes | Yes | Holdover from the Obama administration | |||
| 2011 - Present | Tom Pickering | Yes | Yes | Holdover from the Obama administration Former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations |
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| 2011 - Present | Anne-Marie Slaughter | Yes | Yes | Holdover from the Obama administration Former State Department Director of Policy Planning |
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| Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization | 2017 - present | Kay Bailey Hutchison | Yes | ||||
| Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security | 2012 - present | Rose Gottemoeller | Yes | Holdover from the Obama administration | |||
| Transportation Department | Secretary | 2017 - present | Elaine Chao | Yes | |||
| Treasury Department | Secretary | 2017 - present | Steve Mnuchin | Yes | |||
| Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs | 2017 - present | David Malpass | Yes | ||||
| White House | Council of Economic Advisers Chairman | 2017 - present | Kevin Hassett | Yes | |||
| Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for National Security Strategy | 2017 - present | Nadia Schadlow | Yes | Her husband, Philip Michael Murphy, is an employee of the Rubenstein media relations firm. The executive vice president of Rubenstein is Nancy Haberman. Nancy's daughter is New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman. National Security Adviser McMaster has been accused of leaking information to the media. How difficult would that be for him to do? This position is part of the National Security Council. |
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| Director of Media Affairs | 2017 - present | Helen Aguirre Ferré | Yes | ||||
| President's Homeland Security Advisory Council | Current member | Lee H. Hamilton | Yes | Holdover from the Obama administration He was vice chair of the 9/11 Commission |
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| President's Intelligence Advisory Board Chair | 2014 - present | Judith A. Miscik | Yes | Yes | Holdover from the Obama administration | ||
| Senior Counselor to the President for Economic Initiativesand Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy | 2017 - present | Dina Habib Powell | Yes | Yes | |||
| Special Assistant to the President and Associate Counsel to the President | 2017 - present | Schuyler Schouten | Yes | ||||
| Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Asia | 2017 - present | Matthew Pottinger | Yes | This position is a member of the National Security Council. | |||
| Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Europe and Russia | 2017 - present | Fiona Hill | Yes | This position is a member of the National Security Council. | |||
| Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Gulf States | 2017 - present | Joel Rayburn | Yes | This position is a member of the National Security Council. | |||
| Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Non-Proliferation and Nuclear Issues | 2017 - present | Christopher Ford | Yes | This position is a member of the National Security Council. | |||
| Strategic Initiatives for the White House Strategic Development Group Director | 2017 - present | Chris Liddell | Yes | ||||
| Trade Representative | 2017 - present | Robert Lighthizer | Yes | ||||
| Some of the former employees during Trump's presidency-- | |||||||
| Commerce Department | American Manufacturing Council Chair | 2017 | Andrew Liveris | Yes | Yes | ||
| Federal Reserve | Vice Chair | 2014 - 2017 | Stanley Fischer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Holdover from the Obama administration Former Governor of the Bank of Israel Former First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Former Chief Economist of the World Bank |
| White House | Deputy Assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs | 2017 | Kenneth Juster | Yes | Yes | This position is part of the National Security Council | |
| Deputy National Security Advisor | 2017 | Kathleen Troia “KT” McFarland | Yes | ||||
| National Economic Council Chair | 2017 - present | Gary D. Cohn | Yes | He was the President and COO of Goldman Sachs | |||
| National Security Advisor | 2017 - present | H. R. McMaster | Yes | Yes | |||
| President’s Strategic and Policy Forum Chairman | 2017 | Stephen A. Schwarzman | Yes | ||||
| President’s Strategic and Policy Forum Member | 2017 | Jamie Dimon | Yes | ||||
| 2017 | Laurence D. Fink | Yes | |||||
| 2017 | W. James McNerney Jr. | Yes | |||||
| 2017 | Indra Nooyi | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 2017 | Virginia M. Rometty | Yes | |||||
| 2017 | Kevin Warsh | Yes | |||||
| 2017 | John (Jack) F. Welch Jr. | Yes | |||||
| 2017 | Daniel Yergin | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| White House Communications Director | 2017 | Anthony Scaramucci | Yes | ||||
| Some of the current Judiciary employees during Trump's presidency-- | |||||||
| U. S. Federal Judiciary | Judge | 1985 - present | Laurence H. Silberman | Yes | United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit | ||
| U. S. Supreme Court | Justice | 1994 - present | Stephen Gerald Breyer | Yes | |||
| 1993 - present | Ruth Bader Ginsburg | Yes | |||||
Some of the secret society Executive Branch federal employees prior to Trump —
| Government Department or Agency | Position | Term of Service | Name | Bilderberg Group | Council On Foreign Relations | Trilateral Commission | Comments |
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| 9/11 Commission | Co-chair | 2002 - 2004 | Thomas Kean, Sr. | Yes | |||
| 2002 - 2004 | Lee H. Hamilton | Yes | |||||
| Agriculture Department | Secretary | 2009 - 2017 | Tom Vilsack | Yes | |||
| 2001 - 2005 | Ann M. Veneman | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1995 - 2001 | Daniel Robert Glickman | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Central Intelligence Agency | CIA Agent | 1950 - 1954 | Tom Braden | Yes | |||
| 1951 - 1960 | William Bundy | Yes | Yes | Brother to McGeorge Bundy | |||
| Central Intelligence Deputy Director | 1992 - 1995 | William O. Studeman | Yes | ||||
| CIA Deputy Director for Intelligence | 1983 - 2005 | Jami Miscik | Yes | Currently is President and Vice-Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc. | |||
| CIA Director | 2012 - 2013 | Michael Morell | Yes | ||||
| 2011 - 2012 | David Petraeus | Yes | Yes | U. S. Army General (4 star), retired Former head of CENTCOM |
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| 2009 - 2011 | Leon Panetta | Yes | |||||
| 2006 - 2009 | Michael Hayden | Yes | U. S. Air Force General, retired | ||||
| 2005 - 2006 | Porter Goss | Yes | Former Congressman from Florida | ||||
| Central Intelligence Director | 2004 - 2005 | Porter Goss | Yes | Former Congressman from Florida | |||
| 1997 - 2004 | George J. Tenet | Yes | |||||
| 1995 - 1996 | John M. Deutch | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| 1993 - 1995 | James Woolsey | Yes | |||||
| 1991 - 1993 | Robert M. Gates | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1987 - 1991 | William H. Webster | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1981 - 1987 | William J. Casey | Yes | |||||
| 1977 - 1981 | Stansfield Turner | Yes | U. S. Navy Admiral, retired | ||||
| 1976 - 1977 | George H. W. Bush | Yes | |||||
| 1973 - 1976 | William E. Colby | Yes | |||||
| 1973 | James Schlesinger | Yes | |||||
| 1966 - 1973 | Richard Helms | Yes | |||||
| 1961 - 1965 | John A. McCone | Yes | |||||
| 1953 - 1961 | Allen W. Dulles | Yes | Former President of the CFR | ||||
| 1950 - 1953 | Walter B. Smith | Yes | |||||
| Commerce Department | Secretary | 2013 - 2017 | Penny Sue Pritzker | Yes | Member of the Board of Directors of the CFR | ||
| 1993 - 1996 | Ron Brown | Yes | |||||
| 1976 - 1977 | Elliot L. Richardson | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1972 - 1973 | Peter G. Peterson | Yes | |||||
| 1946 - 1948 | W. Averell Harriman | Yes | |||||
| Export Promotion and Trade Policy Senior Director | 2009 - 2012 | Joe Hurd | Yes | Yes | |||
| Under Secretary of Commerce | 1977 - 1978 | Sidney Harman | Yes | ||||
| Defense Department | Assistant Secretary of War (Defense) | 1994 - 2001 | Kenneth Bacon | Yes | |||
| 1994 - 1995 | Joseph Nye | Yes | North American Chairman of the Trilateral Commission | ||||
| Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy and Plans | 1993 - 1994 | Graham Allison | Yes | Yes | He is currently Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | ||
| 1989 - 1993 | Stephen J. Hadley | Yes | |||||
| 1941 - 1945 | John J. McCloy | Yes | Former Chairman of the CFR, 1953 - 1970 | ||||
| Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff | 1989 - 1993 | Colin L. Powell | Yes | Yes | |||
| Deputy Secretary of Defense | 2001 - 2005 | Paul Wolfowitz | Yes | ||||
| 1997 - 2000 | John J. Hamre | Yes | Currently President and CEO of Center for Strategic and International Studies | ||||
| Deputy Undersecretary of Defense | 1985 - 1987 | Dov S. Zakheim | Yes | ||||
| Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman | 2007 - 2011 | Michael G. Mullen | Yes | U. S. Navy Admiral, retired | |||
| National Security Agency Director | 1999 - 2005 | Michael Hayden | Yes | U. S. Air Force General, retired | |||
| 1988 - 1992 | William O. Studeman | Yes | U. S. Navy Vice Admiral, retired | ||||
| Pentagon Foreign Policy Advisor | 2003 - 2004 | Dan Senor | Yes | ||||
| Secretary | 2015 - 2017 | Ashton Carter | Yes | Yes | |||
| 2013 - 2015 | Chuck Hagel | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 2011 - 2013 | Leon Panetta | Yes | |||||
| 2006 - 2011 | Robert M. Gates | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 2001 - 2006 | Donald Rumsfeld | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1997 - 2001 | William S. Cohen | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1994 - 1997 | William J. Perry | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1993 - 1994 | Les Aspin | Yes | |||||
| 1989 - 1993 | Richard Cheney | Yes | Yes | Vice President of the United States 2001 - 2009 | |||
| 1987 - 1989 | Frank Carlucci | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1981 - 1987 | Caspar Weinberger | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1977 - 1981 | Harold Brown | Yes | Yes | Counselor and Trustee, Center for Strategic and International Studies | |||
| 1975 - 1977 | Donald Rumsfeld | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1973 - 1975 | James R. Schlesinger | Yes | |||||
| 1973 | Eliot L. Richardson | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1969 - 1973 | Melvin R. Laird | Yes | |||||
| 1961 - 1968 | Robert McNamara | Yes | Yes | Yes | Former President of the World Bank | ||
| 1959 - 1961 | Thomas S. Gates, Jr. | Yes | |||||
| 1957 - 1959 | Neil H. McElroy | Yes | |||||
| 1953 - 1957 | Charles E. Wilson | Yes | |||||
| 1951 - 1953 | Robert A. Lovett | Yes | |||||
| 1950 - 1951 | George C. Marshall | Yes | A famous World War II Army general, The Marshall Plan, officially the European Recovery Program, was named after him. | ||||
| 1947 - 1949 | James V. Forrestal | Yes | The first Secretary of Defense. Previously the department was called the War Department. | ||||
| 1945 - 1947 | Robert P. Patterson | Yes | Secretary of War; President of the Council on Foreign relations | ||||
| 1940 - 1945 | Henry L. Stimson | Yes | Secretary of War, because the department was still called the War Department | ||||
| Secretary of the Navy | 1969 - 1972 | John Chafee | Yes | ||||
| 1963 - 1967 | Paul Nitze | Yes | |||||
| Under Secretary of Defense | 1994 - 2001 | Walter B. Slocombe | Yes | ||||
| Under Secretary of Defense for Policy | 2009 - 2012 | Michèle Flournoy | Yes | Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | |||
| Education Department | Secretary | 1991 - 1993 | Lamar Alexander | Yes | Former Governor of Tennessee | ||
| Energy Department | Los Alamos National Laboratory Director | 1970 - 1979 | Harold Agnew | Yes | |||
| Deputy Secretary | 2014 - 2017 | Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall | Yes | Sister of Co-President, Disney/ABC Television Group Ben Sherwood | |||
| Secretary | 2013 - 2017 | Ernest J. Moniz | Yes | ||||
| 1998 - 2001 | Bill Richardson | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1977 - 1979 | James R. Schlesinger | Yes | |||||
| 1979 - 1981 | Charles W. Duncan | Yes | |||||
| EPA | Administrator | 2001 - 2003 | Christine Todd Whitman | Yes | Yes | Former Governor of New Jersey | |
| 1983 - 1985 | William D. Ruckelshaus | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1970 - 1973 | William D. Ruckelshaus | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas | President and CEO | 2005 - 2015 | Richard W. Fisher | Yes | Yes | ||
| Federal Reserve Bank of New York | President | 1985 - 1993 | E. Gerald Corrigan | Yes | Currently the Managing Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co. | ||
| 1975 - 1979 | Paul Volcker | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| Vice President | 1954 - 1959 | John Exter | Yes | ||||
| Federal Reserve | Chairman | 1987 - 2006 | Alan Greenspan | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 1979 - 1987 | Paul Volcker | Yes | Yes | Yes | Former North American Chairman of the Trilateral Commission | ||
| Vice Chairman | 1996 - 1999 | Alice Rivlin | Yes | ||||
| Health and Human Services | Secretary | 2014 - 2017 | Sylvia Burwell | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2009 - 2014 | Kathleen Sebelius | Yes | Former Governor of Kansas | ||||
| 2001 - 2005 | Tommy G. Thompson | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1993 - 2001 | Donna Shalala | Yes | |||||
| 1977 - 1979 | Joseph Califano | Yes | |||||
| 1973 - 1975 | Casper Weinberger | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1970 - 1973 | Eliot L. Richardson | Yes | Yes | ||||
| (Health, Education and Welfare Department) | 1961 - 1962 | Abraham A. Ribicoff | Yes | ||||
| Homeland Security Department | Secretary | 2013 - 2017 | Jeh Johnson | Yes | |||
| 2009 - 2013 | Janet Napolitano | Yes | |||||
| 2005 – 2009 | Michael Chertoff | Yes | He is a co-author of the anti-American USA PATRIOT Act, which called for body scanners at airports that he directly benefited from | ||||
| Housing and Urban Development Department | Secretary | 1993 - 1997 | Henry Cisneros | Yes | Yes | ||
| 1989 - 1993 | Jack Kemp | Yes | |||||
| 1975 - 1977 | Carla A. Hills | Yes | Yes | Co-chairman of the CFR | |||
| 1973 - 1975 | James T. Lynn | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Interior Department | Secretary of the Interior | 1993 - 2001 | Bruce Babbitt | Yes | |||
| Justice Department | Attorney General | 2015 - 2017 | Loretta Lynch | Yes | |||
| 2009 - 2015 | Eric Holder | Yes | In 2012, Holder became the only cabinet member in history that Congress held in contempt because of his answers during the Fast and Furious gunrunning operation investigation | ||||
| 1993 - 2001 | Janet Reno | Yes | |||||
| 1988 - 1991 | Richard Thornburgh | Yes | |||||
| 1973 | Eliot L. Richardson | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1964 - 1966 | Nicholas Katzenbach | Yes | |||||
| 1957 - 1961 | William P. Rogers | Yes | |||||
| 1909 - 1913 | George W. Wickersham | Yes | Former President of the CFR | ||||
| Attorney General Deputy | 1994 - 1997 | Jamie S. Gorelick | Yes | She advised British Petroleum following the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. She is the attorney of Jared Kuchner. |
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| 1974 - 1975 | Laurence H. Silberman | Yes | |||||
| FBI Director | 1978 - 1987 | William Webster | Yes | ||||
| Labor Department | Secretary | 2001 - 2009 | Elaine Chao | Yes | Married to Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader | ||
| 1991 - 1993 | Lynn Martin | Yes | |||||
| 1985 - 1987 | Bill Brock | Yes | |||||
| 1969 - 1970 | George Shultz | Yes | |||||
| Under Secretary of Labor | 1970 - 1973 | Laurence H. Silberman | Yes | ||||
| National Intelligence | Director | 2009 - 2010 | Dennis B. Blair | Yes | U. S. Navy Admiral, retired; Chairman, Sasakawa Peace Foundation | ||
| 2005 - 2007 | John D. Negroponte | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Securities and Exchange Commission | Chairman | 2003 - 2005 | William H. Donaldson | Yes | |||
| State Department | Ambassador | 2009 - 2011 | Karl Eikenberry | Yes | Former U. S. Army General; Ambassador to Afghanistan | ||
| 2009 - 2011 | Jon Huntsman, Jr. | Yes | Ambassador to China Former governor of Utah |
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| 2004 - 2009 | David Mulford | Yes | Ambassador to India | ||||
| 2002 - 2004 | Donna Hrinak | Yes | Ambassador to Brazil; served three other ambassadorships | ||||
| 2001 - 2002 | Wendy J. Chamberlin | Yes | Ambassador to Pakistan | ||||
| 1997 - 2001 | Gordon Giffin | Yes | Ambassador to Canada | ||||
| 1997 - 2001 | Philip Lader | Yes | Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Former Vice-chairman of RAND corporation |
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| 1997 - 2000 | Felix Rohatyn | Yes | Ambassador to France | ||||
| 1993 - 1998 | William Green Miller | Yes | Ambassador to Ukraine | ||||
| 1993 - 1997 | James R. Jones | Yes | Ambassador to Mexico | ||||
| 1993 - 1996 | Thomas R. Pickering | Yes | Ambassador to Russia | ||||
| 1992 - 1993 | Roman Popadiuk | Yes | Ambassador to Ukraine | ||||
| 1990 - 1994 | Deane R. Hinton | Yes | Ambassador to Panama; previously served four other ambassadorships | ||||
| 1985 - 1989 | Winston Lord | Yes | Yes | Yes | Former President of the CFR from 1977 - 1985 | ||
| 1981 - 1983 | Langhorne A. Motley | Yes | Ambassador to Brazil | ||||
| 1975 - 1976 | Laurence H. Silberman | Yes | Ambassador to Yugoslavia | ||||
| 1974 - 1976 | Shirley Temple | Yes | Yes | Former child movie star; Ambassador to Ghana; served one other ambassadorship | |||
| 1953 - 1954 | William vanden Heuvel | Yes | Ambassador to Thailand | ||||
| 1918 - 1921 | John W. Davis | Yes | Ambassador to the United Kingdom; Former President of the CFR | ||||
| Assistant Secretary of State | 2009 - 2013 | Kurt M. Campbell | Yes | Married to Lael BraInard | |||
| 2002 - 2005 | Kim Holmes | Yes | |||||
| 2001 - 2003 | Walter H. Kansteiner, III | Yes | |||||
| 1997 - 2001 | Susan Rice | Yes | |||||
| 1993 - 1997 | Winston Lord | Yes | Yes | Yes | Former President of the CFR from 1977 - 1985 | ||
| 1989 - 1992 | Janet G. Mullins Grissom | Yes | |||||
| 1988 - 1989 | Richard S. Williamson | Yes | |||||
| 1981 - 1989 | Eliot Abrams | Yes | |||||
| 1977 - 1979 | Leslie H. Gelb | Yes | Former president of the CFR, 1993 - 2003 | ||||
| 1977 - 1978 | Joseph Duffey | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1945 - 1947 | Spruille Braden | Yes | |||||
| Deputy Assistant Secretary of State | 1976 - 1979 | Steve Pieczenik | Yes | ||||
| 1990 - 1993 | David Malpass | Yes | |||||
| Deputy Secretary of State | 2009 - 2011 | James B. Steinberg | Yes | Yes | |||
| 2009 - 2010 | Jack Lew | Yes | |||||
| 2007 - 2009 | John D. Negroponte | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 2005 - 2006 | Robert B. Zoellick | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| 2001 - 2005 | Richard Armitage | Yes | |||||
| 1994 - 2001 | Strobe Talbott | Yes | Chairman of Brookings Institution, partially financed by George Soros | ||||
| 1985 - 1989 | John C. Whitehead | Yes | Former Goldman Sachs Chairman | ||||
| Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources | 2011 - 2013 | Thomas R. Nides | Yes | Married to CNN Washington Deputy Bureau Chief and Vice President for CNN | |||
| Foreign Affairs Policy Board Member | 2011 - 2015 | Ann Fudge | Yes | ||||
| 2011 - 2015 | Helene Gayle | Yes | |||||
| 2011 - 2015 | Nina Hachigian | Yes | |||||
| 2011 - 2015 | Alberto Ibargüen | Yes | |||||
| 2011 - 2015 | Jim Kolbe | Yes | |||||
| 2011 - 2015 | Stephen Krasner | Yes | |||||
| 2011 - 2015 | Ellen Laipson | Yes | |||||
| 2011 - 2015 | Mack McLarty | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 2011 - 2015 | Jacqueline Novogratz | Yes | |||||
| 2011 - 2015 | James Steinberg | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 2011 - 2015 | Laura Tyson | Yes | |||||
| 2011 - 2015 | Rich Verma | Yes | |||||
| Policy Planning Director | 2009 - 2011 | Anne-Marie Slaughter | Yes | Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | |||
| 2001 - 2003 | Richard Haass | Yes | Yes | President of the Council on Foreign Relations | |||
| Secretary | 2013 - 2017 | John Kerry | Yes | ||||
| 2009 - 2013 | Hillary Clinton | Yes | Former U. S. Senator from New York | ||||
| 2005 - 2009 | Condoleezza Rice | Yes | |||||
| 2001 - 2005 | Colin L. Powell | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1997 - 2001 | Madeleine K. Albright | Yes | Yes | She famously said that 500,000 Iraqi children starving to death was an acceptable price to pay for eliminating the nonexistent WMDs that Saddam Hussein allegedly had | |||
| 1993 - 1997 | Warren Christopher | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1992 - 1993 | Lawrence Eagleburger | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1989 - 1992 | James Baker | Yes | |||||
| 1982 - 1989 | George P. Shultz | Yes | |||||
| 1981 - 1982 | Alexander Haig | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1980 - 1981 | Edmund Muskie | Yes | |||||
| 1977 - 1980 | Cyrus Vance | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1973 - 1977 | Henry Kissinger | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| 1969 - 1973 | William P. Rogers | Yes | |||||
| 1961 - 1969 | Dean Rusk | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1959 - 1961 | Christian A. Herter | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1953 - 1959 | John F. Dulles | Yes | |||||
| 1949 - 1953 | Dean Acheson | Yes | |||||
| 1947 - 1949 | George C. Marshall | Yes | A famous World War II Army general, The Marshall Plan, officially the European Recovery Program, was named after him. | ||||
| 1944 - 1945 | Edward R. Stettinius | Yes | |||||
| 1933 - 1944 | Cordell Hull | Yes | |||||
| 1929 - 1933 | Henry L. Stimson | Yes | |||||
| 1925 - 1929 | Frank B. Kellogg | Yes | |||||
| State Department official and Ambassador | 1978 - 1991 | Morton I. Abramowitz | Yes | ||||
| 1968 - 1989 | L. Paul Bremer | Yes | Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority of Iraq, 2003 - 2004 | ||||
| 1961 - 1981 | Stephen M. Schwebel | Yes | |||||
| 1961 - 1963 | George Kennan | Yes | Former International Court of Justice judge | ||||
| Under Secretary of State | 1997 - 2000 | Thomas R. Pickering | Yes | Yes | |||
| 1993 - 1997 | Joan E. Spero | Yes | |||||
| 1993 - 1997 | Peter Tarnoff | Yes | Former President of the CFR | ||||
| 1966 - 1969 | Eugene Rostow | Yes | |||||
| 1961 - 1966 | George Wildman Ball | Yes | |||||
| 1959 - 1961 | C. Douglas Dillon | Yes | |||||
| 1959 - 1961 | Christian A. Herter | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs | 2001 - 2009 | Paula Dobriansky | Yes | Currently a Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, | |||
| Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs | 1977 - 1981 | Richard N. Cooper | Yes | Currently the Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics, Harvard University | |||
| Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs | 2011 - 2015 | Wendy Sherman | Yes | Resident Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics | |||
| 2005 - 2008 | R. Nicholas Burns | Yes | Yes | Currently he is a Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government; he is on the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations | |||
| Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs | 2009 - 2011 | Judith A. McHale | Yes | President and CEO of Cane Investments Former President and CEO of Discovery Communications |
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| United States UN Ambassador | 2009 - 2013 | Susan Rice | Yes | Yes | Yes | Former Federal Reserve Bank of New York President | |
| 2007 - 2009 | Zalmay Khalilzad | Yes | Served two other ambassadorships | ||||
| 2005 - 2006 | John R. Bolton | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 2001 - 2004 | John D. Negroponte | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1999 - 2001 | Richard Holbrooke | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| 1997 - 1998 | Bill Richardson | Yes | Yes | Former governor of NM | |||
| 1993 - 1997 | Madeleine Albright | Yes | |||||
| 1989 - 1992 | Thomas R. Pickering | Yes | |||||
| 1985 - 1989 | Vernon A. Walters | Yes | U. S. Army General, retired | ||||
| 1981 - 1985 | Jeane Kirkpatrick | Yes | |||||
| Transportation Department | Secretary | 1975 - 1977 | William T. Coleman | Yes | Yes | ||
| Treasury Department | Assistant Secretary of Treasury | 1917 - 1921 | Norman H. Davis | Yes | Former President of the CFR | ||
| Assistant Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs | 1977 - 1981 | C. Fred Bergsten | Yes | Former Assistant for International Economic Affairs for the National Security Council | |||
| Deputy Assistant Treasury Secretary | 1981 - 1989 | David Malpass | Yes | ||||
| Deputy Treasury Secretary | 2005 – 2009 | Robert M. Kimmitt | Yes | Yes | |||
| Secretary | 2013 - 2017 | Jack Lew | Yes | ||||
| 2009 - 2013 | Timothy Geithner | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 2006 - 2009 | Henry Paulson | Yes | Former CEO of Goldman Sachs | ||||
| 1999 - 2001 | Larry Summers | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| 1995 - 1999 | Robert E. Rubin | Yes | Co-chairman of the CFR | ||||
| 1993 - 1994 | Lloyd Bentsen | Yes | 1988 Vice-Presidential Candidate | ||||
| 1988 - 1993 | Nicholas Brady | Yes | |||||
| 1985 - 1988 | James Baker | Yes | |||||
| 1981 - 1985 | Donald T. Regan | Yes | |||||
| 1979 - 1981 | G. William Miller | Yes | |||||
| 1977 - 1979 | W. Michael Blumenthal | Yes | |||||
| 1974 - 1977 | William E. Simon | Yes | |||||
| 1972 - 1974 | George Shultz | Yes | |||||
| 1969 - 1971 | David M. Kennedy | Yes | |||||
| 1965 - 1968 | Henry H. Fowler | Yes | |||||
| 1961 - 1965 | C. Douglas Dillon | Yes | |||||
| 1957 - 1961 | Robert B. Anderson | Yes | |||||
| 1934 - 1945 | Henry Morgenthau, Jr. | Yes | |||||
| 1933 | William H. Woodin | Yes | |||||
| 1932 - 1933 | Ogden L. Mills | Yes | |||||
| 1921 - 1932 | Andrew W. Mellon | Yes | |||||
| Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs | 2010 - 2013 | Lael Brainard | Yes | Yes | Married to Kurt M. Campbell | ||
| 2007 - 2009 | David McCormick | Yes | Yes | ||||
| U. S. Agency for International Development | Administrator | 2010 - 2015 | Rajiv Shah | Yes | President, Rockefeller Foundation | ||
| Veterans Affairs | Secretary | 2009 - 2014 | Eric Shinseki | Yes | Former Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army | ||
| 1998 - 2000 | Togo D. West, Jr. | Yes | |||||
| White House | Appointments Secretary | 1968 - 1969 | James R. Jones | Yes | |||
| Chief of Staff | 2012 - 2013 | Jack Lew | Yes | ||||
| 2011 - 2012 | William M. Daley | Yes | |||||
| 2006 - 2009 | Josh Bolten | Yes | |||||
| 1993 - 1994 | Thomas F. McLarty III | Yes | Yes | President of McLarty Associates He was instrumental in the passage of NAFTA and the FTAA trade agreements He is a lifelong friend of Bill Clinton |
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| 1992 - 1993 | James Baker | Yes | |||||
| 1987 - 1988 | Howard Baker | Yes | |||||
| 1981 - 1985 | James Baker | Yes | |||||
| Communications Director | 1981 - 1983 | David Gergen | Yes | Yes | Currently a political analyst for CNN. | ||
| 1975 - 1977 | David Gergen | Yes | Yes | Currently a political analyst for CNN. | |||
| Counsel | 1986 - 1987 | Peter J. Wallison | Yes | ||||
| Council of Economic Advisers Chairman | 2010 - 2011 | Austan Goolsbee | Yes | ||||
| 1982 - 1984 | Martin S. Feldstein | Yes | Yes | George F. Baker Professor of Economics, Harvard University | |||
| Deputy Chief of Staff | 2005 - 2007 | Karl Rove | Yes | ||||
| Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board Chairman | 2005 - 2009 | Stephen Friedman | Yes | ||||
| Homeland Security Advisor | 2004 - 2007 | Frances Townsend | Yes | ||||
| National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform Member | 2010 - 2011 | Ann M. Fudge | Yes | ||||
| National Economic Council Deputy Director | 2009 - 2011 | Diana Farrell | Yes | CEO and President, JPMorgan Chase Institute | |||
| National Economic Council Director | 2009 - 2010 | Larry Summers | Yes | Yes | Yes | Former President of Harvard University | |
| National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman | 2009 - 2013 | Jim Leach | Yes | ||||
| National Intelligence Council Chair | 1993 - 1994 | Joseph S. Nye, Jr. | Yes | North American Chairman, Trilateral Commission Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs |
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| National Intelligence Director | 2005 - 2007 | John D. Negroponte | Yes | ||||
| National Security Advisor | 2013 - 2017 | Susan Rice | Yes | Yes | |||
| 2010 - 2013 | Thomas Donilon | Yes | Yes | Yes | Currently a Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University | ||
| 2009 - 2010 | James L. Jones | Yes | Chairman of the Atlantic Council from 2007 - 2009. Henry Kissinger is a Director of the Council. | ||||
| 2005 - 2009 | Stephen J. Hadley | Yes | |||||
| 2001 - 2005 | Condoleezza Rice | Yes | |||||
| 1997 - 2001 | Sandy Berger | Yes | |||||
| 1989 - 1993 | Brent Scowcroft | Yes | |||||
| 1987 - 1989 | Colin L. Powell | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1986 - 1987 | Frank Carlucci | Yes | |||||
| 1983 - 1985 | Bud McFarlane | Yes | |||||
| 1977 - 1981 | Zbigniew Brzezinski | Yes | Yes | Yes | Co-founder of the Trilateral Commission with David Rockefeller | ||
| 1975 - 1977 | Brent Scowcroft | Yes | |||||
| 1969 - 1975 | Henry Kissinger | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| 1966 - 1969 | Walt Rostow | Yes | |||||
| 1961 - 1966 | McGeorge Bundy | Yes | Brother to William Bundy | ||||
| National Security Advisor Deputy | 2001 - 2005 | Stephen J. Hadley | Yes | ||||
| 1995 - 2000 | James B. Steinberg | Yes | Yes | ||||
| National Security Advisor Deputy for Iraq and Afghanistan | 2004 - 2007 | O’Sullivan, Meghan L. | Yes | Yes | Evron and Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | ||
| National Security Council Member | 1981 - 1982 | Richard Pipes | Yes | ||||
| 1977 - 1981 | Robert Pastor | Yes | Known as the father of the North American Union | ||||
| National Security Council Special Advisor on the Middle East | 1993 - 2001 | Dennis Ross | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Office of Management and Budget Director | 2013 - 2014 | Sylvia Burwell | Yes | Yes | |||
| 2010 - 2012 | Jack Lew | Yes | |||||
| 2009 - 2010 | Peter R. Orszag | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| 2003 - 2006 | Josh Bolton | Yes | |||||
| 2001 - 2003 | Mitch Daniels | Yes | |||||
| 1998 - 2001 | Jack Lew | Yes | |||||
| 1994 - 1996 | Alice Rivlin | Yes | |||||
| 1993 - 1994 | Leon E. Panetta | Yes | |||||
| Office of Science and Technology Policy Director | 2009 - 2017 | John Holdren | Yes | Believes a woman should be able to have an abortion until the child turns three-years-old! | |||
| President of the United States | 2009 - 2017 | Barack Obama | Yes | Constitutionally ineligible to be president | |||
| 1993 - 2001 | Bill Clinton | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| 1989 - 1993 | George H. W. Bush | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1977 - 1981 | Jimmy Carter | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1974 - 1977 | Gerald Ford | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1969 - 1974 | Richard Nixon | Yes | |||||
| 1961 - 1963 | John F. Kennedy | Yes | |||||
| 1952 - 1961 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Yes | |||||
| 1929 - 1933 | Herbert Hoover | Yes | |||||
| Presidential Adviser | 2003 - 2004 | Dan Senor | Yes | ||||
| 1992 - 1993 | Vernon Jordan | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1960 - 1961 | Henry Merritt Wriston | Yes | Former President of the CFR | ||||
| Presidential Aide | 1988 - 1989 | John Wheeler III | Yes | He served in various other positions in government, and in 2010 he was murdered and his body was found in a landfill | |||
| Presidential Assistant | 1970 - 1973 | Fred Malek | Yes | He designed and directed the "Responsiveness Program", a strategy to replace civil servants with Nixon supporters and to steer government resources to benefit Nixon's 1972 re-election. He said at the time that the plan would take "substantial risks" in politicizing the Executive Branch and expressed concern that the plan would "undoubtably backfire" if made public. | |||
| President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board Chairman | 2009 - 2011 | Paul Volcker | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Press Secretary | 2006 - 2007 | Tony Snow | Yes | ||||
| 1993 | George Stephanopoulos | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1965 - 1967 | Bill Moyers | Yes | After leaving government, he worked on several news networks, primarily PBS | ||||
| Solicitor General of the United States | 1913 - 1918 | John W. Davis | Yes | Former President of the CFR | |||
| Special Assistant to the President | 1961 - 1964 | Fred Dutton | Yes | ||||
| 1961 - 1964 | Arthur Schlesinger | Yes | |||||
| Special Assistant to the President and Associate White House Counsel | 2009 - 2013 | Michael J, Gottlieb | Yes | Married to Ari Shapiro, an NPR international correspondent | |||
| Special Counsel to the President | 1970 - 1976 | Michael Raoul Duval | Yes | ||||
| Transition Team Foreign Affairs Advisor | 2008 - 2009 | Richard N. Haass | Yes | Yes | Current CFR President; former state department director of policy planning | ||
| United States Institute of Peace Member | 2003 - 2005 | Daniel Pipes | Yes | ||||
| United States Trade Representative | 2013 - 2017 | Michael Froman | Yes | ||||
| 2006 - 2009 | Susan Schwab | Yes | |||||
| 2001 - 2005 | Robert B. Zoellick | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| 1997 - 2001 | Charlene Barshefsky | Yes | |||||
| 1989 - 1993 | Carla A. Hills | Yes | The Trade Representative is called "Ambassador." Co-chairman of the CFR | ||||
| 1981 - 1985 | Bill Brock | Yes | |||||
| 1962 - 1966 | Christian A. Herter | Yes | Yes | First Trade Representative | |||
| Vice President of the United States | 2009 - 2017 | Joe Biden | Yes | Former U. S. Senator from Delaware | |||
| 2001 - 2009 | Dick Cheney | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1993 - 2001 | Al Gore | Yes | |||||
| 1989 - 1993 | Dan Quayle | Yes | |||||
| 1981 - 1989 | George H. W. Bush | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1977 - 1981 | Walter Mondale | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| 1974 - 1977 | Nelson Rockefeller | Yes | Brother of David Rockefeller, who created the Trilateral Commission | ||||
| 1965 - 1969 | Hubert Humphrey | Yes | |||||
| 1953 - 1961 | Richard Nixon | Yes | |||||
| Vice-Presidential Chief-of-Staff | 2001 - 2005 | Lewis Libby | Yes | "Scooter" Libby was sentenced to 30 months in prison for perjury. President Bush commuted the sentence several weeks later. | |||
| 1989 - 1993 | William Kristol | Yes | Founder and Editor of "The Weekly Standard"; CNN and FOX News contributor | ||||
| Vice Presidential Press Secretary | 2001 - 2002 | Juleanna Glover Weiss | Yes | ||||
| White House Chief Emissary | 2009 | Richard Holbrooke | Yes | Yes | Yes | Became the U. S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan | |
| White House Chief Emissary | 2009 | Dennis Ross | Yes | Yes | Yes | Former National Security Council Special Advisor on the Middle East |
A LAWLESS SUPREME COURT MAKES IT UP AS THEY GO ALONG —
Our Founding Fathers were very concerned that the Constitution did not put enough restraints on the judiciary. Now we know why they were so justly concerned.
Thomas Jefferson was very worried about the power of the judiciary and mentioned it many times:
“[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their, own sphere of action, but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch.” — 1804
“The Constitution…is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary which they may twist and shape into any form they please.” — 1819
“It has long, however, been my opinion, and I have never shrunk from its expression…that the germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal Judiciary; an irresponsible body, (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow) working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be consolidated into one.” — 1821
“At the establishment of our constitutions, the judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helpless and harmless members of the government. Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were to become the most dangerous; that the insufficiency of the means provided for their removal gave them a freehold and irresponsibility in office; that their decisions, seeming to concern individual suitors only, pass silent and unheeded by the public at large; that these decisions, nevertheless, become law by precedent, sapping, by little and little, the foundations of the constitution, and working its change by construction, before any one has perceived that that invisible and helpless worm has been busily employed in consuming its substance. In truth, man is not made to be trusted for life, if secured against all liability to account.” — 1823
In 1788, Alexander Hamilton described what we seem to be experiencing today:
“And it proves, in the last place, that liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything to fear from its union with either of the other departments. “
Remember, on January 14, 2009, Obama and Biden met with Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts for a private “protocol visit” with no reporters or photographers present. This was one week before the usurper in the White House was sworn into office. The meeting itself wasn’t that unusual, but at the time, Roberts had several cases pending before him challenging Obama’s eligibility to be president. What could they have possibly talked about at the meeting??? All of the eligibility cases were eventually thrown out.
Any Supreme Court decisions that are the opposite of the values and beliefs America used to stand for, should not come as a surprise, since two of the liberal justices are traitors to the American Republic. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (appointed in 1993) and Justice Stephen Breyer (appointed in 1994) are members of the Council on Foreign Relations, whose goal is the destruction of the sovereignty of the United States.
Following the controversial Supreme Court rulings on Obamacare and homosexual marriage, voters believe more strongly that individual states should have the right to turn their backs on the federal courts.
A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey, conducted a week after the rulings were announced, found that 33% of likely U.S. voters now believe that states should have the right to ignore federal court rulings if their elected officials agree with them. That’s up nine points from 24% when the question was first asked in February. Just over half (52%) disagree, down from 58% in the earlier survey. Fifteen percent (15%) are undecided.
Perhaps even more disturbing is that the voters who feel strongest about overriding the federal courts – Republicans and conservatives – are those who traditionally have been the most supportive of the Constitution and separation of powers. During the Obama years, however, these voters have become increasingly suspicious and even hostile toward the federal government. Fifty percent (50%) of GOP voters now believe states should have the right to ignore federal court rulings, compared to just 22% of Democrats and 30% of voters not affiliated with either major party. Interestingly, this represents a noticeable rise in support among all three groups. Fifty percent (50%) of conservative voters share this view, but just 27% of moderates and 15% of liberals agree.
The Affordable Care Act Ruling —
On June 25, 2015, the Supreme Court again saved Obamacare by ruling that it allows the federal government to provide nationwide tax subsidies to help poor and middle-class people buy health insurance.
In dissent, Justice Scalia called the majority’s reasoning “quite absurd” and “interpretive jiggery-pokery.” He also said, “We really should start calling this law Scotus-care.”
The rule of law has been the critical element that distinguishes tyrannical regimes from just ones throughout history. If law is written and interpreted according to its plain meaning, the citizenry can have confidence that the law means what it says and will not be subject to the arbitrary will of those in power. By contrast, when law is decided on a personal whim, or when written law is capable of any meaning desired by those who govern, tyranny reigns. The decision in King v. Burwell is one that will live in infamy, precisely because it replaced the rule of law with the arbitrary political will of a majority of Justices on the Court.
The Same-Sex Marriage Ruling —
On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government must recognize homosexual marriages sanctioned by the states, but states can still ban homosexual marriages.
In his dissent, Justice Scalia wrote that, “I write separately to call attention to this Court’s threat to American democracy . . . Today’s decree says that my Ruler, and the Ruler of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast, is a majority of the nine lawyers on the Supreme Court . . . This practice of constitutional revision by an unelected committee of nine, always accompanied (as it is today) by extravagant praise of liberty, robs the People of the most important liberty they asserted in the Declaration of Independence and won in the Revolution of 1776: the freedom to govern themselves.
He also wrote that, “Today’s opinion aggrandizes the power of the court to pronounce the law.” It will have the predictable consequence of diminishing the “power of our people to govern themselves.” The “assertion of judicial supremacy over the people’s representatives in Congress and the executive” is “jaw-dropping . . . It envisions a Supreme Court standing (or rather enthroned) at the apex of government, empowered to decide all constitutional questions, always and everywhere ‘primary’ in its role . . . This image of the court would have been unrecognizable to those who wrote and ratified our national charter.”
Several months after the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage ruling, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia gave a speech at Santa Clara University. In his speech, Scalia expressed his belief that the “destruction of our democratic system” is being promoted by the “liberal” Supreme Court. He also said that the court is giving citizens rights that the Constitution doesn’t specifically guarantee, like gay marriage and federally subsidized health insurance. Scalia wrote in his dissent position that, “To allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation.”
Scalia mentioned that treating the U. S. Constitution as a “living document” began in the 1920s, when Supreme Court justices interpreted the “guarantee of due process of law to protect fundamental rights not explicitly mentioned in constitutional text.”
In 2004, the Supreme Court struck down its own decision of 17 years previous in Bowers v. Hardwick (1986), in which it had upheld such State laws by declaring that sodomy was not protected behavior and was not a constitutional right. In that case, the Court had explained:
Proscriptions against [homosexual] conduct have ancient roots. Sodomy was a criminal offense at common law and was forbidden by the laws of the original 13 States when they ratified the Bill of Rights. . . . In fact, until 1961, all 50 States outlawed sodomy, and today, 24 States and the District of Columbia continue to provide criminal penalties for sodomy performed in private and between consenting adults. Against this background, to claim that a right to engage in such conduct is “deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition,” or “implicit in the concept of ordered liberty” is, at best, facetious [silly].
That conclusion angered Justices Scalia, Rehnquist, and Thomas, who offered an unusually stinging and blunt dissent, written by Justice Scalia. They understood the Court’s decision declaring consensual sodomy to be constitutional would produce dramatic cultural upheaval. As they warned:
State laws against bigamy, same-sex marriage, adult incest, prostitution, masturbation, adultery, fornication, bestiality, and obscenity are likewise. . . . called into question by today’s decision. . . . What a massive disruption of the current social order. . . . [and t]his reasoning leaves on pretty shaky grounds state laws limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples. . . . Today’s opinion dismantles the structure of constitutional law that has permitted a distinction to be made between heterosexual and homosexual unions, insofar as formal recognition in marriage is concerned.
Thomas Jefferson once wrote:
[T]he will of the majority [is] the natural law of every society [and] is the only sure guardian of the rights of man. Perhaps even this may sometimes err. But its errors are honest, solitary and short-lived . . .
[T]hough the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; [and] the minority possess their equal rights which equal law must protect.
While the minority is not to prevail over the majority, the minority, with its constitutional guarantee of “free speech,” does have the equal right to attempt to persuade the majority to its point of view (or portions of its views). However, “equal right” is not the same as “equal power”; the minority is never the equivalent of the majority and is never to exercise control over it.
In explaining why it had decided to overturn its previous ruling in the Bowers case, the Supreme Court cited cases from foreign courts as well as foreign trends rather than American authorities or documents:
To the extent Bowers relied on values we share with a wider civilization, it should be noted that the reasoning and holding in Bowers have been rejected elsewhere. The European Court of Human Rights has followed not Bowers but its own decision in Dudgeon v. United Kingdom (Eur. Ct. hr, Sept. 25, 2001); Modinos v. Cyprus, 259 Eur. Ct. hr (1993); Norris v. Ireland, 142 Eur. Ct. hr (1988). Other nations, too, have taken action consistent with an affirmation of the protected right of homosexual adults to engage in intimate, consensual conduct. See Brief for Mary Robinson et al. The right the petitioners seek in this case has been accepted as an integral part of human freedom in many other countries.
What about the U. S. Constitution the justices took as oath to uphold, that says the Constitution is the supreme law of the land? Where does it say that if other nations won’t follow our Supreme Court’s decision, we abandon our position and follow theirs?
Notice the Court’s multiple references in the above quotation to holdings by the European Court of Human Rights (a part of the New World Order). Additionally, notice that the Court specifically cited the brief by Mary Robinson, the UN (the front organization for the New World Order) High Commissioner for Human Rights. In that brief, Robinson had argued that since other nations believed that the “criminalization of same-sex sodomy between consenting adults violates constitutional guarantees of privacy and equal protection,” that our American Supreme Court “should pay due respect to these opinions of humankind.” She further asserted that “legal concepts like ˜privacy,” ˜liberty,” and ˜equality” are not US property but have global meaning- and therefore- “ even though these words are prevalent throughout American law-“ they should be defined “in light of foreign interpretations” rather than American ones. Robinson even cited cases from other nations that were favorable to same-sex marriages, and she ominously warned that if the Supreme Court ignored the rulings of these other nations, it would “generate controversies with the United State’s closest global allies.”
This was the first time that the Court had cited foreign legal precedents as the primary authority for its decision. The Court’s reliance on foreign decisions instead of the U. S. Constitution evoked this comment from the dissenting Justices:
Constitutional entitlements do not. . . . spring into existence, as the Court seems to believe, because foreign nations decriminalize conduct. The Bowers majority opinion never relied on “values we share with a wider civilization” but rather rejected the claimed right to sodomy on the ground that such a right was not “deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition.” . . . The Court’s discussion of these foreign views (ignoring, of course, the many countries that have retained criminal prohibitions on sodomy) is therefore meaningless dicta. Dangerous dicta, however, since “this Court … should not impose foreign moods, fads, or fashions on Americans.” Foster v. Florida, 537 US 990, n. (2002) (Thomas, J., concurring in denial of certiorari).
These three Justices correctly assert that when the American Supreme Court addresses an issue, it should be the American Constitution that is determinant, not foreign rights or wrongs. Nevertheless, Clinton (BB, CFR, TC) appointees to the Supreme Court Breyer (CFR) and Ginsburg (CFR) have cited international treaty provisions as the basis for their decisions regarding American policies. And when Justice Stevens similarly invoked a foreign authority as a precedent, Scalia forcefully responded that: “The views of other nations“- however enlightened the Justices of this Court may think them to be- “ cannot be imposed upon Americans through the Constitution.”
Interestingly, the week following their decision, several of the Justices went to Florence, Italy, to meet with foreign judges on a proposed new European constitution. This might have been acceptable if the Justices were attempting to move the rest of the world toward the proven American system of representative republicanism, but results confirm just the opposite- “ that other nations are moving our American Justices in their direction and toward an abandonment of our uniquely successful American principles.
Soon after the Court’s prosodomy decision, Justices Breyer (CFR) and O’Connor (CFR) went on television to defend their reliance on views of international precedent. Justice Breyer openly questioned whether the Constitution was still relevant in this new “modern” age. As he explained, when it came to the Founders and the Constitution, “they didn’t have automobiles in mind, or they didn’t have airplanes in mind, or telephones, or the Internet; or you look at a word like ˜liberty,” and they didn’t have in mind at that time the problems of privacy.- That is, since those words don’t expressly appear in the Constitution, we will reject the timeless constitutional principles that do apply to these modern issues and instead enact a new “modern” judicially-written Constitution. Breyer also confirmed that he viewed the Constitution not as a stand-alone document but rather as one that should be integrated into and interpreted by foreign standards. As he explained: “Whether our Constitution- “ and how it fits into the governing documents of other nations-“ I think will be a challenge for the next generations. And Justice O’Connor similarly affirmed to the Southern Center for International Studies (an affiliate of the World Affairs Councils of America) that, “Over time, we will rely increasingly, or take notice at least increasingly, on international and foreign courts in examining domestic issues.”
It appears that the New World Order has had control over the United States Supreme Court for quite some time. That would certainly explain a lot of the decisions they have made over the years!
Any Supreme Court Justice that looks to foreign law to decide American cases instead of the Constitution is violating the oath of office they took to uphold the Constitution of the United States, and should be impeached!
The most important part of the law in the same-sex marriage case is Title 28, Part I, Chapter 21, Section 455 of the U.S. Code, which is applicable to judges and courts. It says, “Any justice, judge, or magistrate judge of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned.” These disqualifications include cases in which “he has a personal bias or prejudice concerning a party…”
Justices Elena Kagan and Ruth Bader Ginsburg have both officiated at homosexual weddings. Groups such as the National Organization for Marriage, the American Family Association, the Coalition of African American Pastors, and the Foundation for Moral Law had called for Kagan and Ginsburg to withdraw from the case. According to the executive director of the Foundation for Moral Law, the failure by Kagan and Ginsburg to withdraw from the case leaves them open to impeachment and removal from the bench.
In addition to officiating at homosexual weddings, various reports indicated that Kagan was a known lesbian before she was nominated to the Court by Obama. For example, the gay blog QueerTY had identified her as a lesbian. That would mean she was compromised on homosexual issues prior to her ascension to the bench and after she was confirmed.
It’s also well known that Kagan had an extremely radical record as Dean of Harvard Law School (2003 to 2009) where she promoted homosexuality and transgenderism. Nevertheless, she was confirmed to the Supreme Court in a 63 to 37 vote. At the time it was reported that Kagan “avoided the sort of scrutiny that some nominees have faced.”
The liberal progressives can only get their agenda passed through illegal means.
There is still hope for a change. If the usurper in the White House can be declared a Constitutionally ineligible president, which he clearly is, these Supreme Court decisions, and many others, become null and void. Why? Because Justices Kagan and Sotomayor were appointed by Obama. If he is declared ineligible, all legislation he has signed, and all actions he has taken, become null and void, and it’s January 20, 2009 all over again!
Some of the secret society Judiciary Branch federal employees prior to Trump —
| Government Position | Term of Service | Name | Bilderberg Group | Council On Foreign Relations | Trilateral Commission | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U. S. Federal judge | 1985 - 2000 | Laurence H. Silberman | Yes | Court of Appeals | ||
| 1979 - 1980 | George J. Mitchell | Yes | U. S. District Court | |||
| U. S. Supreme Court justice | 1981 - 2006 | Sandra Day O'Connor | Yes |
Some of the secret society Legislative Branch federal employees prior to Trump —
| Government Office | Position | Term of Service | Name | Bilderberg Group | Council On Foreign Relations | Trilateral Commission | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Congressional Budget Office | Director | 2003 - 2005 | Douglas Holtz-Eakin | Yes | |||
| United States House of Representatives | House of Representatives Member | 2005 - 2017 | Charles Boustany, Jr. | Yes | |||
| 2003 - 2013 | Howard Berman | Yes | |||||
| 2001 - 2011 1993 - 1999 | Jane Harman | Yes | President and CEO, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars | ||||
| 1993 - 2003 | Lindsay Graham | Yes | |||||
| 1991 - 2015 | Ed Pastor | Yes | |||||
| 1991 - 1997 | Jack Reed | Yes | |||||
| 1989 - 2017 | Jim McDermott | Yes | |||||
| 1983 - 2013 | Dan Burton | Yes | |||||
| 1983 - 2011 | John Spratt | Yes | |||||
| 1983 - 2007 | Nancy Johnson | Yes | |||||
| 1983 - 1995 | Jim Cooper | Yes | |||||
| 1983 - 1987 | John McCain | Yes | |||||
| 1981 - 2001 | Sam Gejdenson | Yes | |||||
| 1981 - 1993 | Mervyn M. Dymally | Yes | |||||
| 1981 - 1993 | Vin Weber | Yes | Currently on the Board of Directors of the CFR | ||||
| 1979 - 2005 | Robert MatsuI | Yes | |||||
| 1979 - 1999 | Newt Gingrich | Yes | |||||
| 1979 - 1995 | Olympia J. Snowe | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1979 - 1987 | Michael D. Barnes | Yes | |||||
| 1979 - 1985 | Geraldine Ferraro | Yes | 1984 Vice Presidential Candidate | ||||
| 1977 - 2007 | Jim Leach | Yes | |||||
| 1977 - 2005 | Dick Gephardt | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1977 - 1995 | Daniel Glickman | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1975 - 2007 | Henry Hyde | Yes | |||||
| 1975 - 1999 | Charles Schumer | Yes | |||||
| 1975 - 1981 | Chris Dodd | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1973 - 1997 | Patricia Schroeder | Yes | |||||
| 1973 - 1987 | James R. Jones | Yes | |||||
| 1971 - 2017 | Charles Rangel | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1971 - 1977 | H. John Heinz III | Yes | His widow later married John Kerry, former Secretary of State | ||||
| 1971 - 1977 | Paul Sarbanes | Yes | |||||
| 1967 - 1970 | William V. Roth, Jr | Yes | |||||
| 1965 - 1983 | Jonathan Bingham | Yes | |||||
| 1965 - 1995 | Thomas Foley | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| 1963 - 1979 | Donald M. Fraser | Yes | |||||
| 1961 - 1981 | John B. Anderson | Yes | |||||
| 1957 - 1961 | George McGovern | Yes | |||||
| 1949 - 1953 | Abraham A. Ribicoff | Yes | |||||
| 1943 - 1953 | Christian A. Herter | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Majority Leader | 1989 - 1995 | Dick Gephardt | Yes | ||||
| Speaker of the House | 1995 - 1999 | Newt Gingrich | Yes | ||||
| United States Senate | Majority Leader | 2003 - 2007 | Bill Frist | Yes | |||
| 1989 - 1995 | George J. Mitchell | Yes | |||||
| Senator | 2001 - 2006 | Jon Corzine | Yes | Former governor of NJ; former CEO of MF Global, that filed for bankruptcy after he lost $1.6 billion, but was not held accountable for it; former CEO of Goldman Sachs | |||
| 1999 - 2011 | Evan Bayh | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1999 - 2005 | John Edwards | Yes | 2004 Vice Presidential Candidate | ||||
| 1997 - 2009 | Chuck Hagel | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1995 - 2013 | Olympia J. Snowe | Yes | Yes | Senior Fellow Bipartisan Policy Center | |||
| 1995 - 2007 | Bill Frist | Yes | |||||
| 1994 - 2003 | Fred Thompson | Yes | As an actor, he has appeared in numerous movies and television series, most notably "Law & Order" | ||||
| 1993 - 2013 | Kay Bailey Hutchison | Yes | 2000 Vice Presidential Candidate | ||||
| 1989 - 2013 | Joe Lieberman | Yes | |||||
| 1989 - 2001 | Charles Robb | Yes | Yes | Former Governor of Virginia, and son-in-law to President Lyndon Johnson | |||
| 1985 - 2015 | John D. Rockefeller, IV | Yes | Yes | Former Governor of West Virginia, nephew of David Rockefeller, co-founder of the Trilateral Commission | |||
| 1981 - 2011 | Chris Dodd | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1980 - 1995 | George J. Mitchell | Yes | |||||
| 1979 - 1997 | Bill Bradley | Yes | |||||
| 1979 - 1994 | David Boren | Yes | Current University of Oklahoma President, former Governor of Oklahoma | ||||
| 1978 - 1991 | Rudy Boschwitz | Yes | |||||
| 1977 - 2007 | Paul Sarbanes | Yes | |||||
| 1977 - 2001 | Daniel Patrick Moynihan | Yes | |||||
| 1977 - 1991 | H. John Heinz III | Yes | His widow later married John Kerry, current Secretary of State | ||||
| 1976 - 1999 | John Chafee | Yes | |||||
| 1975 - 1987 | Gary Hart | Yes | Council for a Livable World chairman, advisory board member for the Partnership for a Secure America | ||||
| 1972 - 1997 | Sam Nunn | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1971 - 2001 | William V. Roth, Jr | Yes | |||||
| 1970 - 1981 | Adlai Stevenson III | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1969 - 1993 | Alan Cranston | Yes | One of the Keating five senators (which included John McCain and John Glenn) that were accused of corruption in the savings and loan scandal, with Cranston's misconduct being deemed the worst of the five | ||||
| 1967 - 1985 | Charles H. Percy | Yes | Father-in-law to Sen. John D. Rockefeller, IV | ||||
| 1963 - 1981 | George McGovern | Yes | 1972 Democratic Presidential candidate | ||||
| 1963 - 1981 | Abraham A. Ribicoff | Yes |
As the tables above have shown, the Council on Foreign Relations has a near-stranglehold on the key positions of power in the U. S. government. It doesn’t matter which political party is in power at the time, because CFR members are in both parties. Certain positions in the government are more important to the CFR than others. There have been eight CFR presidents, nine CFR vice presidents, 19 CFR secretaries of state, 22 CFR secretaries of war/defense, 20 CFR secretaries of the treasury, and 18 CFR directors of the CIA. In addition to these positions, there are hundreds of CFR deputy secretaries, CFR assistant secretaries, etc. Remember, this is just membership in the Council on Foreign Relations. It does not include membership in the Bilderberg Group or Trilateral Commission. Some globalists are members of multiple secret societies.
When Obama became president in 2008, he began appointing CFR members to various positions in his administration. As with previous administrations, he was expected to appoint more than 400 CFR members to positions in his administration.
The CFR members are not just in the administration of a president. They are also throughout Congress, where they are elected and re-elected by the people.
Now you can understand why our government does things that seem contrary to what Americans should be doing. It’s because our government does not consist of people with America’s best interests in mind. They are globalists that are only concerned with establishing a New World Order they can profit off of through subjugation of citizens.
Source Materials —
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Foreign_Relations
http://www.cfr.org/about/membership/roster.html
http://www.libertyforlife.com/nwo/2009Chart.pdf
http://trilateral.org/go.cfm?do=Page.View&pid=6