Ray was interviewed on 8/30/18 by KPFA’s Dennis Bernstein after Greg Palast and before David Rovics, who ends the hour singing a blistering “tribute” to John McCain.

https://kpfa.org/episode/flashpoints-august-30-2018/

Ray talks (minutes 23-50) about former CIA Director John Brennan and his Deep State partners in crime, and speculates on what may lie ahead for those — like Brennan and James Comey — who played fast and loose with the law and Constitution because they were sure Mrs. Clinton would win.  It requires no analytical leap to suggest that the liberties they took with the law were part of the “insurance policy” that the FBI’s Peter Strzok referred to in this August 15, 2016 text message to his paramour Lisa Page::

Strzok: “I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office — that there’s no way he gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk. It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.”

Don’t miss David Rovics’s lyrics; Greg Palast is also typically good on local election shenanigans — as in the state of Georgia. Tongue in cheek, Greg says it must have been the Russians who gave Georgia Republicans the idea of closing so many polling places in predominantly black precincts.

To the editor, Washington Post

Finding himself in agreement with something Washington Post commentator Michael Gerson (!) wrote about an all-male clergy, Ray wrote a letter to the editor, reminiscing about the ill-fated efforts of Catholics in the most “progressive” parish in the Archdiocese of Washington to curb the marginalization of women.
The injustice of sexism is what prompted Ray’s first sustained (every Sunday for four and a half years during the 90s) standing in witness against the sexism on display in the liturgy itself.  “The Standing” did raise consciousness, but also engendered a lot of fear that the Cardinal “would appoint Attila the Hun” as pastor to show who was boss.
Ray’s letter was rejected, but for those with interest, here is what Ray emailed to the Post:
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August 28, 2018
To the Editor, Washington Post:

Michael Gerson (“Two Paths for the Catholic Church,” Aug. 28) says an all-male clergy cannot police itself and asks, “Can you imagine a meeting including parish mothers and women leaders in which the protection of a predator priest was proposed?” Excellent point, Michael.

Gerson accuses Catholics of “insufficient outrage.” He is in very good company.  Thomas Aquinas condemned timid obeisance in the face of injustice as “unreasoned patience;” what was required, said Aquinas, was “the virtue of anger” (Summa Theologica, Question 158). [Hat tip to the Jesuits who drilled that into me.]

For three decades I was a member of Jesuit-run Holy Trinity parish in Georgetown. During the 90s I was part of its parishioner-initiated Working Groups on Sexism. We worked hard at it but, sadly, “unreasoned patience” prevailed. Jim Naughton, a former Washington Post reporter, told the story in his interesting book “Catholics in Crisis: An American Parish Fights for Its Soul.” — a story sadder still amid the heinous clerical predations revealed in recent weeks.

Ray McGovern
Holy Trinity Church, former parishioner
FULL DISCLOSURE:  On August 25, 1996, the Washington Post Magazine ran a cover story, titled “A House Divided,” about The Standing at Holy Trinity. The text of Jim Naughton’s first chapter was posted on your website (see link below).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/1996/08/25/a-house-divided/e2d49459-f3ba-4d5a-8060-992c1cf5de82/?utm_term=.140592d58a51

Another CNN “Bombshell” Report Bombs: Ray interviewed on the latest CNN Russia-gate lie; namely, that Trump Sr. knew beforehand about the (in)famous 06/09/16 “Trump Tower meeting” with Trump Jr., Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, et al.  Source Lanny Davis now says he “misspoke,” but CNN has refused to retract.

August 28, 2018 (10 minutes)
Meanwhile, Glenn Greenwald is dodging darts from Russia-gate aficionados at The New Yorker (see:
And small wonder! Here’s Greenwald’s latest embarrassing expose of Establishment media malpractice:

Reich Recommends Re-set to ’Nullify’ Trump and all his works and all his pomps! No half-measures. Great idea; now Mueller has to come up with the goods.

By Ray McGovern, August 26, 2018

Robert Reich, who until recently had been a member of the Adult Democrats, has given Robert Mueller his marching orders.  Reich writes in
https://www.opednews.com/articles/It-s-Not-Enough-to-Impeach-by-Robert-B-Reich-Impeach-Trump-180825-620.html
“The only way I see the end of Trump is if there’s overwhelming evidence he rigged the 2016 election. In which case impeachment isn’t an adequate remedy. His presidency should be annulled. … Suppose, just suppose, Robert Mueller finds overwhelming and indisputable evidence that Trump conspired with Putin to rig the 2016 election, and the rigging determined the election’s outcome.”

Only then could we see an early end to Trump, Reich suggests.  Hope springs eternal.  But Peter Strzok concluded: “There’s no big there there.” Never mind.  We are pinning our hopes on you, Bob.  Please.  It is getting embarrassing. Hurry up and find some “there” for god’s sake.

Mueller has been at it twice as long as Strzok was. And, as head of the FBI for 12 years, Mueller knows where to look. How much more time does Reich think Mueller should be given?

Much at Stake

The stakes are VERY high for many of Mueller’s own best-friends-forever. And a close look at his checkered legal past shows that his NY Times-bestowed reputation as “universally respected” cannot bear even cursory scrutiny.

Will Mueller be tempted to have Brennanites (themselves nervously hoping they can avoid indictment) manufacture the kind of “overwhelming and indisputable evidence” that Reich et al. lust after? This would NOT be without precedent.

Recall that Brennan’s mentor, the disgraced George Tenet, told Colin Powell that the “evidence” given him to justify the war of aggression on Iraq was indisputable. Speaking to the UN Security Council on February 5, 2003, Powell chose similar adjectives: “irrefutable” and “undeniable.” The media loved it to death — literally.

Again, the stakes could hardly be higher for Mueller and his friends. Patrick Lawrence makes a scary point in suggesting that Russiagate may have already reached the point where it is “too big to fail.” See:
https://consortiumnews.com/2018/08/13/too-big-to-fail-russia-gate-one-year-after-vips-showed-a-leak-not-a-hack/

Besides, what’s to lose? Who’s afraid of congressional “oversight” committees? … or an anemic media? If you cannot be held accountable even for torture, well….

It may turn out that Mueller will finally come up with evidence that is [please choose between the following adjectives: overwhelming, indisputable, irrefutable, undeniable] and that the Establishment media will be just as unconscionably fawning, deceitful, and ecstatic as they were on the day Powell lied to the UN.  The media seem to have forgotten how to kick the tires.

Of supreme importance here is the fact that basically the same people are running the Establishment media as in February 2003. Did they learn their lesson? They did indeed — but the wrong lesson.

Proof? Poof!

So Mueller could expect virtually unanimous support from the Brennanite-milk-fed-media, should they happen to come upon some yellow-cake-uranium-type forgery — oops, not forgery, I mean “proof” — that Trump is, indeed, in Putin’s pocket.  Then poof! Trump and all his works and all his pomps are “null.”  Folks like Reich will be delighted; Americans will have been deceived once again — as with WMD. And the Deep State will have won another round.

Look for something like this in Coming Attractions for the weeks ahead.

Notice: As we continue, as usual, to post Ray’s articles, speeches, videos, and radio interviews here at raymcgovern.com, please know that Ray has begun to tweet more often, and his Quick Tweets (QT) will not be duplicated here on the website. For those not yet following Ray on Twitter, his handle is: @raymcgovern.

Here’s a tweet from early this morning — launching the new QT approach:

 

Amy Goodman is good on ICE fascists, but naive on CIA’s John Brennan. Why does her headline today parrot the frivolous lede in Washington Post? Fact that Brennan did all he could, legally & illegally, to elect Mrs. Clinton should subject him to close scrutiny, not give him a pass.