Here is a statement Ray just gave for a press release on John Brennan’s little peccadillos (!) like lying to Senate regarding CIA snooping on them and their staffers – and why he would do such an unusual (!) thing.
Statement of highly decorated veteran (27-year) CIA analyst, Ray McGovern. (On retirement Ray was awarded CIA’s Intelligence Commendation Award, and received a letter of commendation from then-President George H. W. Bush, whom McGovern briefed every other morning with the President’s Daily Brief.)
“It is inconceivable that the spying on the Senate committee happened without authorization by Director Brennan, so the question is why he did so. Easy answer: it has been established that Brennan had, at the very least, guilty knowledge of the torture, so the stakes for him personally could not be higher. He simply had to find out how damning the Senate report is about his own role. Brennan’s nominal boss, National Intelligence Director James Clapper is still in place after confessing to giving the same committee on March 12, 2013 sworn testimony (about NSA collection programs) that was in Clapper’s words, “clearly erroneous.” If President Obama does not fire Brennan, this will demonstrate that the President himself is afraid of our intelligence services – what blackmail material they may have on him and even whether they will target him, as they did John Kennedy.”