Ray on the CIA, Torture and Blowing the Whistle

March 14, 2016

Truthout.org, March 11, 2016

Includes transcript of interview by Zain Raza of “acTVism Munich,” as well as the video (13 minutes)

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35185-ray-mcgovern-on-the-cia-torture-and-blowing-the-whistle

Discussed are the Bush/Cheney program of systematic torture; the complicity of over 50 European governments in enabling kidnapping and secret prisons; why President Obama is afraid to take on the CIA and NSA et al.; Edward Snowden; and history’s lessons regarding what happens when there are not enough activists to expose government crimes.

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Ray on the CIA, Torture and Blowing the Whistle

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