Ray McGovern

Mark Thomas of WBT Radio (Charlotte, NC) asked Ray to tell the story of the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967 during the Six-Day War.  In his intro, Thomas spoke of the U.S. sailors “lost” that day.

 

Ray cannot abide the words “lost” or “fallen” when applied, as in this case, to murder.  The 34 were not “lost;” they were killed, and 170-plus others were wounded – deliberately.  Intercepted messages leave no doubt that the Israeli authorities were fully aware the Liberty was a U.S. naval ship in international waters, and that their aim was to sink it and leave no survivors.  That was thwarted by the courageous action of seaman from Texas, Terry Halbardier, who skated across a napalm-laden deck to enable an SOS to the 6^th Fleet – at which point the Israeli torpedo boats and aircraft got out of Dodge.

http://www.wbt.com/media/audio-channel/memorial-day-relfections

May 24 2017 (Ray’s segment runs from minute 31:40 to 48:00.)

 

The other portions of Mark Thomas’s hour-long “Memorial Day Reflections” are also worth a listen.

By Caitlin Johnstone, May 16, 2017

https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/theres-major-fuckery-afoot-with-the-washington-post-and-i-think-i-know-why-fc32e574d49f

 

Also, can the Deep State delete offending on-line articles from The Nation?

 

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Is the Washington Post embarked on a thorough investigation of L’Affaire Seth Rich?  Would that Woodward and Bernstein had been able to resist becoming gentrified and domesticated!  See what you think of this from the Washington Post Editorial Board this morning:

 

By Editorial Board May 23

LET’S DISPENSE with calling the frenzy of reports about Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich’s death last summer fake news. So overused and misused is the phrase — by those seeking to disparage things they simply dislike or disagree with — that it risks losing real meaning. And there must be no ambiguity or confusion about the recent reports about Mr. Rich. They are lies. They do great harm. And those peddling them, including most recently former House speaker Newt Gingrich, are either ignorant of the facts or without scruple.

Mr. Gingrich on Sunday during an appearance on “Fox & Friends” gave a boost to conspiracy theories that Mr. Rich was not killed during a botched robbery — as D.C. police believe based on all available evidence — but rather was “assassinated” to cover up how tens of thousands of internal Democratic Party emails were leaked to WikiLeaks. Never mind that U.S. intelligence officials have conclusively determined that Russia hacked the accounts. The absurd notion that operatives working on behalf of Hillary Clinton killed the 27-year-old staffer has been a staple of far-right websites but given little acknowledgment or credence from mainstream media. That changed last week when local Fox affiliate WTTG 5 aired a report claiming Mr. Rich had been in touch with WikiLeaks before his death.

Within a day, the story had been thoroughly debunked by reporters at NBC News, CNN and The Post. The lone “source” for the report — a contributor whose previous claim to the national spotlight was his report that pink-pistol-packing lesbian gangs were terrorizing the nation — recanted and the station issued a clarification. None of that, though, stopped Sean Hannity and then Mr. Gingrich, with no pushback from Fox News hosts, from trying to peddle the bogus story.

“Pizzagate,” the insane conspiracy theory that Ms. Clinton was operating a child-abuse ring out of a popular family pizzeria in Northwest Washington, demonstrated the damage that can be caused by lies. A North Carolina man believed the reports on social media and stormed the restaurant with an assault-style rifle. The cost this time is anguish for a grieving family as attempts are made to sully their son’s memory. They have made clear they have confidence in the D.C. police. Does anyone really think that this mother and father don’t want their son’s murderer brought to justice or that they would be willing to look the other way to give someone political cover?

It is preposterous. Those suggesting otherwise should apologize.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-absurd-conspiracy-theory-around-seth-richs-death-causes-real-harm/2017/05/22/520ba572-3f21-11e7-9869-bac8b446820a_story.html?utm_term=.3265f58fb15f

 

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“Preposterous.”  Gosh!  Apologize?

 

Does this look a little like a pre-emptive attack, using all-too-familiar charges to denigrate so-called “conspiracy theorists?”  Is there enough interest in who killed Democratic National Committee employee Seth Rich early in the morning of July 10, 2016?  Are there enough honest and fearless investigative reporters still around – that one can expect the truth to come out?

 

And if/when it comes out, will U.S. citizens be able to “handle the truth” beneath a cover up?  Libyan President Gaddafi “had it coming to him.”  But Seth Rich?”  Was it: “He came; he saw; he died?”

 

Has anyone else noticed the woman always sitting outside the Washington Post building – always, always knitting?  It’s the weirdest thing.  If you look closely at the knitting, you can decipher names on a list a little bit like the drone target list.  Says her name is Thérèse Defarge.

5/22/17 Ray McGovern talks USS Liberty and Middle East Foreign Policy

Ray also comments on the formidable power of the Israel Lobby; events over the past three years in Ukraine; the shoot-down of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 and the sanctions imposed on Russia nine days later; machinations of ex-NATO commander Strangelove/Breedlove and his “fixed” intelligence on Russia’s troop movements; and the key question as to how much longer the world will have to wait before the Germans realize they can start acting like adults.

 

May 22, 2017 (minute 1:25 to 1:26:30)

Ray’s segment starts at minute 25:20, and there is a break between minutes 41:50 and 44:30.  Otherwise the relaxed tour d’horizonruns until 2:06:40.  (But listeners can easily press STOP, whenever they wish.)

 

What about the Cyrillic found on a hack of the DNC?  Ray explains why he believes it more likely that source of the celebrated  “Russian hack” (including Cyrillic) was the sophisticated, “obfuscation”-enabling software developed by CIA/NSA at huge cost over the past 15 years.  Your tax dollars at work.

By Ray McGovern, May 21, 2017

 

Not Remembering the USS Liberty

Is there a chance that President Donald Trump will have the guts to confront Israel – at long last – about its indisputably deliberate attempt to sink the USS Liberty and leave no survivors?  Does Trump owe this to the remaining Liberty survivors and their families?

 

Or is it more likely that Trump will choose the safer political course and become the tenth president in a row to cover up Israel’s crime on the high seas?  This article includes the text of a Foreword Ray wrote for a new book by Philip Nelson titled: “Remember the Liberty: Almost Sunk by Treason on the High Seas.” Nelson’s book is a must-read for those who “can handle the truth” about when Israeli leaders learned that they could, literally, get away with murder, because U.S. presidents would be afraid to hold them to account.

By Ray McGovern & William Binney, May 20, 2017

 

The Gaping Holes of Russia-gate

This is slightly expanded version of the shorter piece that appeared on May 18 on op-ed page of the Baltimore Sun.

 “No, you may not,” is the answer May may expect to hear from her American puppet masters, would she be so bold as to ask whether she may let Julian Assange go.  Even though Sweden has dropped the trumped-up (no pun intended) rape allegations, the answer she can await will be a firm, “No, you must hold him prisoner; we must continue to make an example of him.”

 

Early Friday afternoon, Ray gave RT International an interview on the latest chapter in this sordid saga.

May 19, 2017 (eight minutes)

 

One might entertain the fleeting thought that, after the groveling of former British PM Tony Blair toward his partner-in-war crime George W. Bush, May may take a different decision.  But, really!  Would she defy an order from her senior partner Washington to keep Julian Assange cooped up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London?  Not likely.  Those Americans can be nasty.

 

But what about UN findings that depriving Julian Assange of his freedom amounts to “arbitrary detention?”  What about the opprobrium once attached to seeming to be an international pariah – not to mention an obsequious satrap of empire, ever bowing to its diktat.

 

No matter. The UK may go on thumbing its nose at international law, as long as Washington keeps providing the Kleenex.  It is a “special relationship,” you see, and the British are past masters at arbitrary detention in any case.  The Magna Carta is still in the curriculum, but it appears that habeas corpus is no longer translated into English – or into action.

 

O Tempora, O Mores!

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/do-high-level-leaks-suggest-a-conspiracy/

By Phil Giraldi, May 18, 2017

A longtime CIA Clandestine Services Officer Addresses Key Question: Can skeptics, professional and otherwise, “handle the truth” when there actually IS a conspiracy?  Giraldi says his old agency colleagues and others are having as much trouble facing reality as readers of the Baltimore Sun (see below)

 How NSA Can Secretly Aid Criminal Cases

How NSA Can Secretly Aid Criminal Cases

Ray wrote this on June 12,2014; Consortiumnews.com posted it again today.

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Special Counsel Investigating Trump Campaign Has Deep Ties to the Deep State

Former FBI Special Agent and Division Counsel Coleen Rowley, May 17, 2017

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=19120

Rowley knows Mueller well enough.  She gave this interview yesterday to The Real News Network (TRNN).  The (above) link includes a transcript; well worth reading.

TRNN’s biographic note:  Coleen Rowley says former FBI head Robert Mueller, now appointed to investigate the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, participated in covering up the pre-9/11 role of the U.S. intelligence agencies and the Bush Administration; helped create the post-9/11 national security/surveillance state; and helped facilitate the pre-Iraq war propaganda machine.  (Rowley and two other whistleblowers were named TIME “Person of the Year” in 2002.)

By Ray McGovern and William Binney, May 18, 2017

(print edition cum comments section, so far)

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-trump-russia-phony-20170517-story.html

Signs of the Times?

 

The Comments

 (Ray is glad he was able to bribe his son-in-law Rick into sounding the one discordant note!)

 

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• miller3987 Newcomer

2 hour(s) ago

Let’s see. Do we have two new writers from Breitbart working for the Sun now? Reads like it; taking a bunch of old Repug talking points, persons to blame other than the accused, and other conspiracy theories. Nothing to see here folks, move along. You won’t learn anything here.

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• portlarge Contributor

3 hour(s) ago

Must be very uncomfortable for these 2 to have their heads buried in all that sand.

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• hancock–j Member

11 hour(s) ago

WOW, our gov’t is corrupt? The CIA uses malware? We’re our own worst enemy? And seriously paranoid? Y’don’t say…

How DID Russia do that, elect Trump, I’d really like to know. And how’s Ed Snowden these days? Anyone?

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• skippy2912 Member

11 hour(s) ago

I suppose these 2 individuals also believe that both 9/11 and Oklahoma City were “inside jobs” too. Gee, I hope and pray that these 2 individuals are not representative and/or indicative of employees and their viewpoints at the CIA and NSA. If things were/are so bad at these 2 agencies, then why did they stay so long at their respective agencies? Was it to collect that fat Government pension? Doesn’t sound like either has any loyalty to the agencies that employed them for so long. Or maybe it’s the same “loyalty” that motivated Edward Snowden?

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• Rick be Newcomer

11 hour(s) ago

Mr McGovern certainly tells it like it is. I am grateful that The Sun printed it.

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• violanteem@hotmail.comNewcomer

11 hour(s) ago

There are questions about Trump that are awaiting answers from the newly appointed independent investigator.However,there is media video that shows Trump is anything but honest.His stories continue to change.His attitude towards women is terrible.He has made attempts to create jobs;but,robotics have taken over wherever possible in industry.We best need our government to offer training in new skills for industry.Perhaps,some type of apprentice positions.Learn while you earn do to speak.Republican health care proposals are awful.Most major medical groups have said this.Instead of wasating crucial funding for a border wall and tax exemptions for the wealthy help our middle class who could soon disappear.Remember,most taxes come from these people.When they are gone,their taxes go with them.

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• newmanji1 Newcomer

12 hour(s) ago

Mssrs McGovern Binney: Do you really expect folks to take this article and y’all seriously when your prose is peppered with qualifiers like “Deep State”, the Russian’s “supposedly” interfering in our election, CIA duplicity to bring down our government, et.al. You folks have been out in the sun too long. The fact is that your darling of a leader, Comrade Trump is an incompetent – in both business and government – and that is a fact. Here’s some advice – look around for another “Dear Leader” to bring about the economic and societal conditions that your article suggests, albeit veiled. Putin comes to mind here.

harrybsun Senior Contributor

1 day(s) ago

Summary: ignore those facts, look at what our imaginations were able to imagine

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• hancock–j Member

in reply to

harrybsun

11 hour(s) ago

Summary: ignore those facts, look at what our imaginations were able to imagine

What facts? How trump removes anyone who can’t clear the air? He really should calm down.

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Lisa Simeone Senior Contributor

1 day(s) ago

Wow. I have long admired Ray McGovern, but this op-ed is looney. Trump taking on the Deep State?? Are you kidding?? Trump doesn’t even know what the Deep State is!

Everything Trump does is for Trump, everyone else be damned.

You’re losing it, Ray. It’s sad to see.

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mishpahabina Newcomer

in reply to

Lisa Simeone

13 hour(s) ago

Wow. I have long admired Ray McGovern, but this op-ed is looney. Trump taking on the Deep State?? Are you kidding?? Trump doesn’t even know what the Deep State is!

EverythingTrump does is for Trump, everyone else be damned.

You’re losing it, Ray. It’s sad to see.

“Losing” it? I’ve seen McGovern’s stuff too. When did he ever have it?

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as of 12 PM, May 18, 2017

 

… and so it goes.