Some bloggers were shocked by a Hillary Clinton email, published by WikiLeaks, which includes some "advice" from Jewish billionaire and former CFR director George Soros regarding State Dept policy in Europe. Why the surprise? Soros has donated millions of dollars to the Clintons, and Hillary is on record stating that the CFR oligarchs tell her "what to do and how to think":

"It's good to have an outpost of the Council right here down the street from the State Department. We get a lot of 'advice' from the Council, so this will mean I won't have as far to go to be told what we should be doing and how we should think about the future."

-- Hillary Clinton speech at CFR, 2009-07-15, video and transcript

Several other recipients of that message are also CFR members, including Richard Verma, Philip Gordon, and William Burns. Someone should cross-check every name in these message dumps to see how many CFR operatives are involved. Former CIA director, Michael Morell, who just endorsed Clinton is a CFR member. He was recently interviewed by Charlie Rose of PBS, also a CFR member, calling for war on Iran.

Besides Soros and son, other high-profile CFR members include Hillary's husband Bill Clinton, advisor Sidney Blumenthal, Robert Kagan (husband of Victoria Nuland), Dick Cheney, John McCain, Henry Kissinger, Strobe Talbott, Robert Rubin, David Rubenstein, Michael Bloomberg, Lloyd Blankfein, Jamie Dimon, Laurence Fink, Steve Schwarzman, Lynn Forester de Rothschild, and CFR godfather David Rockefeller.

The banks that paid millions in "speaking fees" to the Clintons (Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, BlackRock et al) are CFR sponsors. Media organizations including Time-Warner/CNN, Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg, Google and Facebook are CFR sponsors. Many of the network execs and propagandists covering for the Clintons are CFR members:

• Time-Warner: Jeffrey Bewkes (TW chairman), Gary Ginsberg (VP), Carol Melton (VP), Richard Plepler (HBO president, CFR director)
• Time-Warner/CNN: David Gergen, Christiane Amanpour, Paula Zahn, Jake Tapper, Fareed Zakaria, James Sciutto, Rana Foroohar
• Viacom/CBS: Stephen Capus (CBS News), Christopher Isham, Katie Couric, Leslie Stahl, Bob Schieffer, Margaret Brennan, Dan Rather
• Comcast/NBC: Cesar Conde (NBC Intl), Andrea Mitchell, Mika Brzezinski, Charles "Joe" Scarborough, Maria Bartiromo, Brian Williams, Marvin Kalb, Tom Brokaw
• Disney/ABC: Benjamin Sherwood (ABC president), Diane Sawyer, George Stephanopolus, Barbara Walters, Juju Chang
• PBS: Margaret Warner (CFR director), Jim Lehrer, Judy Woodruff, Charlie Rose
• Google: Eric Schmidt (CEO), Jared Cohen (Jigsaw, CFR fellow), Ruth Porat (CFO)
• Facebook: Sheryl Sandberg (COO)

In 2009, the CFR held a "media control" roundtable, sponsored by Time-Warner. Several network executives and talking heads were present, including CFR members Christiane Amanpour, Margaret Warner, Brian Williams, Katie Couric, Charles Gibson, Jonathan Klein (CNN president), Stephen Capus (NBC president), and David Westin (ABC president):

"The fact that we will not reestablish [another] Walter Cronkite, because of technology... does not mean we can't have people who are trusted. Brian Williams is sitting here, Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric..."

-- CFR media control roundtable, sponsored by Time-Warner and moderated by Christiane Amanpour, 2009-09-09, video and transcript

In 2012, Christiane Amanpour's husband James Rubin, a CFR member and former State Dept officer, sent an email to Hillary inviting her to a dinner meeting with Amanpour and several other CFR media assets in order to polish her "image" for the future campaign.

The CFR is closely interlocked with other anti-democratic, globalist policy organizations including the Brookings Institution, Peterson Institute, Club of Rome, and the World Economic Forum to name a few. This is the "outer circle" where political operatives -- like Bill and Hillary Clinton -- are screened and selected, while the strings are pulled by the oligarchs and their banking corporations.

For example, take Jewish billionaire and CFR member Lynn Forester de Rothschild, who just hosted a cozy $100,000 per person fundraiser for Hillary Clinton. She is a director at the Peterson Institute, founded by former CFR chairman Pete Peterson. She is also a trustee at the McCain Institute, along with fellow CFR members John McCain and former CIA director David Petraeus.

Political hacks like Clinton and McCain are overpaid house servants, nothing more. It is useless to criticize "Wall Street" or to rant about "the media" without exposing these connections.