Discussed the Appendix https://consortiumnews.com/2025/08/01/ray-mcgovern-the-deep-states-burst-appendix/ that burst on July 30, when Sen. Grassley released classified Appendix of Durham’s long but toothless report. Appendix has chapter and verse on Clinton’s effort to tie Trump to Putin before the 2016 election.
Roger Waters summons the spirits of women martyrs – Rachel Corrie, Sheeren Abu Akleh, Sophie Scholl, Anne Frank – to penetrate perpetrators’ penthouses and help “Open Their Eyes”. Take heart, still with us are Medea Benjamin, Coleen Rowley, Ann Wright.
Aaron Matee gives hope for future of journalism. I was up previous night writing consortiumnews.com/2025/08/01/ray, but reassurance came, in spades, when Aaron joined Garland & me. You may wish to begin w/min 27 to 30; if you watch the rest, you too will encouraged.
Clapper was hawking his memoir Hard Truths in Intelligence. In book he admits he found Iraqi WMD that “wasn’t really there.” (Transcript at https://raymcgovern.com/2019/01/06/transcript-when-clapper-was-asked-real-questions/ ) I charged him with doing likewise finding Russian hacking of DNC “that wasn’t really there”
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/08/02/clappers-claptrap/
Sen. Grassley showed some cojones in releasing the Appendix to John Durham’s anemic report on intelligence abuses in 2016. Turns out it was “Ambassador” Julianne Smith who persuaded Clinton to lie and blame Putin for “hacking” those embarrassing DNC emails
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/08/01/ray-mcgovern-the-deep-states-burst-appendix/
My colleague Graham Fuller, who joined me in CIA’s Junior Officers Training Program in early 1963, and I gave Nima the kind of Intelligence Briefing that CIA gave to JFK. No BS, no exclusive focus on worldwide threats – but rather on opportunities as well.
What fun to go down Memory Lane with these great, CREDIBLE Duran folks. Like Consortium News consortiumnews.com/2025/07/24/wat, they saw through the drivel on Russian hacking. And now they ask the right questions and give me time to answer. Enjoy.
Russia-gate: Can You Handle the Truth? I gave this talk 7 yrs ago in Seattle. It turned out that the audience, progressive but malnourished on accurate information, could not handle it. “Cameos” by Adam Schiff & Devon Nunes. It was not hard to get it right.