Have we seen this before?  Informed by the same intelligence officials of ill repute who were responsible for the fraudulent evidence concocted to explain the need for war on Iraq, the U.S. is preparing to “retaliate” against Russia for leveraging Donald Trump into the presidency.  The difference this time around is that the deluge of evidence-free, pre-retaliation propaganda has been so effective that those lusting for “retaliation” are getting a totally free pass in virtually all U.S. media.  The government is not required (or even asked) to provide ANY evidence – real or fraudulent – beyond what anonymous CIA officials whisper to tame media stenographers.  Yesterday, Ray discussed media reports of imminent U.S. “retaliation.”

December 28 (8 minutes)

 

The supreme irony: Yes, there was gross interference in the U.S. electoral process – but the culprits were Hillary Clinton and functionaries in the Democratic National Committee who stole the nomination from Bernie Sanders.  Chapter and verse describing that theft is found in the content of the emails leaked to WikiLeaks – by some insider who could not stomach the corruption is my best guess.  (Does it tell you anything that the top five DNC officials had to resign immediately, two days before the Democratic convention?)

 

The U.S. media circus orchestra, conducted by maestro John Brennan, made a herculean effort to divert attention from the contentof the emails, by confecting a successful story line that diverted attention to “the Russians,” blaming them for “hacking” highly embarrassing (albeit authentic) emails depicting the screwing of Sanders.  Smugly, the Democrats and the media were convinced Hillary Clinton was a shoo-in for the presidency, once she fly-swatted Bernie Sanders away.  Had the Democratic primary and nomination process not been so clearly corrupted, we would surely be preparing to inaugurate President-elect Bernie Sanders in three weeks.  Enough irony for today?

House Intelligence Committee eunuchs defame Edward Snowden, in large part because he exposed their own complicity in what former NSA directors (predecessors of the malleable Dick-Cheney tool, Michael Hayden) publicly called “clear violations of the law.”  RT International asked Ray to comment on the House committee report, as soon as a redacted version was made public yesterday.

December 22, 2016 (seven minutes)

 

It is Snowden who decided, at great risk, to honor his oath to defend the Constitution against ALL enemies foreign and domestic – and NOT the timid politicians whose cowardice Snowden exposed.  Naïve souls still inclined to give credence to congressional “overseers” (“overlookers” is a better word) and to a constitutional-lawyer-in-chief who lies outright about his sweeping power to pardon, are now asked to believe that Snowden was/is a Russian spy.  For the “full story,” tune in to the shameless Fawning Corporate Media, which are busy giving disingenuousness a bad name.

 

“At long last, have you no sense of decency?”

Take a break from Christmas shopping.  Find your earplugs and listen to Ray talking to Dave Lindorff of This Can’t Be Happening in a relaxed, sometimes humorous (in a black-comedy kind of way) conversation for the better part of an hour.  BUT, unless you are new to raymcgovern.com , you may find much of the first half familiar.  For frequent visitors to the website, there is some interesting new discussion – about the significance of the ABM Treaty scuttled by Bush and Cheney – during the second half of the interview.  We break down the interview into a few discrete time-segments below.

http://thiscantbehappening.net/node/3402

 

Those tired of hearing Ray on the spurious charges of “Russian hacking,” can fast forward to minute 25:00 when the discussion turns to central Europe and the fallout from the coup in Ukraine.  At minute 35:00 the discussion focuses more on strategic matters – particularly the destabilizing result of George W. Bush’s pulling the U.S. out of the Antiballistic Missile Treaty, which had been the key stabilizing factor in the strategic equation.  Ray traces that issue back to its beginning in May 1972.  It was analysts working for Ray in CIA’s Soviet Foreign Policy Branch, and military analysts in other branches, who were able to assure Nixon that CIA could verify if he could trust, so to speak. Ray was there in Moscow when President Richard Nixon came and signed the historic ABM Treaty.

Brad Friedman of KPFK/Pacifica radio asked Ray to discuss the significance of President-elect Donald Trump’s reluctance to speak with appropriate reverence and awe about the President’s Daily Brief.  Ray explains his own two-stage reaction to Trump’s remarks; Ray’s comment may surprise you.  He also explains the relative importance of the PDB and NIEs (National Intelligence Estimates) and the roles each play in the intelligence cycle.

http://bradblog.com/?p=11971

December 21, 2016 (33 minutes – from minute 19:15 to 52:00)

Think about it: If you were President-elect Trump, would you submit yourself daily to briefers working for “honorable men” like CIA Director John Brennan, who has gotten malleable media and perfunctory pundits to promote the canard that Trump owes his election victory to Russian hackers?  Brad also asks Ray why he is so sure that the line that Brennan’s anonymous minions are promoting is “a crock.”  (There is a lot more on that in the interviews and articles that follow on raymcgovern.com.)

MSNBC’s Ari Melber mouths what MSNBC management apparently thought were curve balls, in an attempt to strike out the Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald, who is “from Missouri” on “Russia’s email hacking.”  “Show Me” the evidence, says Glenn, as he knocks the curves out of the park.

 

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-news/watch/glenn-greenwald-weighs-in-on-election-hacks-838954051793?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

December 21, 2016 (seven minutes)

 

It is a good sign, though, that, despite the likelihood someone at MSNBC knew Glenn’s high batting average, they let him get up to the plate anyway.

Tuesday on Fox Radio’s “The Alan Colmes Show,” Alan spoke with former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, one of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity who believes the DNC and Hillary Clinton campaign were not hacked by the Russians, but victims of a leak from within the DNC.

 

McGovern: A Disgruntled Bernie Supporter Probably Leaked DNC Emails

December 20, 2016 (18 minutes)

Alan Colmes, like Ray, grew up in New York City where most folks know the meaning of “a crock.”

Ray on the CIA-led media blitz and McCarthy-type lists

The late Michael Ratner’s colleague attorneys who host the radio talk show Law and Disorder, Heidi Boghosian and Michael Steven Smith, interview Ray Dec. 14 regarding the CIA-led media blitz in Washington to show not only that Trump owes his victory to Vladimir Putin, but that the Trump and his supporters should be put on a McCarthy-type list before they sell us out to the Communists — oops, I mean the Russians.  Ray notes the considerable discomfort with Trump felt by those whom Pope Francis called (speaking before Congress, no less) the “blood-soaked arms traders” – as well as by politicians who get their cut from the profiteering on tension and war.

Ray’s is the first segment; it runs for 20 minutes.

 

Full Law and Disorder website:

Law and Disorder December 19, 2016