“Law and Disorder Radio” did an 18-minute interview of Ray on September 14.  It aired four days later.

http://lawanddisorder.org/2016/09/law-and-disorder-september-18-2016/

(The segment with the interview of Ray runs for 18 minutes, from minute 41:20 to 59:30.)

 

Ray was asked to talk about the changes after 9/11, to include why, with a few other CIA “alumni,” he created Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).  The idea was to warn President George W. Bush there was no need to attack Iraq – even if some of what Colin Powell told the UN was true.  VIPS went on to expose the fraudulent (NOT “mistaken,” fraudulent) intelligence cooked up by former analyst colleagues accustomed to giving more importance to career than to truth.

 

Ray’s experience watching, up close and personal, the corruption of the analysis directorate of the CIA suggests that it takes a generation to destroy an ethos of integrity in an institution. And that this can most readily be done by promoting malleable managers willing to pimp prostituted intelligence for the next promotion.  And that’s how it (and they) went down in helping Bush and Cheney “justify” the attack on Iraq.

 

The interviewers also asked Ray to comment on why President Obama joined CIA Director John Brennan in trying to scuttle the Senate Intelligence Committee investigation on CIA torture, and how, for once, the Senate stood up to the White House and published a redacted executive summary including depiction of the heinous torture practices revealed in CIA’s own banality-of-evil cables.  In sum, Committee chairman Dianne Feinstein refused to throw her tenacious investigators under the bus.  This is explained in suspenseful detail in a recent Guardian series written by one of the best investigative reporters, Spencer Ackerman.  See link (posted on raymcgovern.com) below: “US Media Ignores CIA Cover-up on Torture,” by VIPS, September 16, 2016, which in turn contains links to the Guardian series.

 

Nice coincidence.  A good friend of Ray, Jeff Haas, a National Lawyers Guild attorney, who just spent 10 days at the Standing Rock Native American tribe encampment in North Dakota, was interviewed during the first segment.  I was not surprised to learn that Jeff is working with other lawyers to see that the Native Americans are, finally, treated with true justice.

 

When Jeff and his equally intrepid wife Mariel Nanasi lived in Chicago, they laid the groundwork for putting former Chicago PD Commander (and torturer) Jon Birge behind bars.  Jeff also represented the family of Black Panther Fred Hampton and successfully proved that Hampton was assassinated by the FBI and the Chicago PD.  Haas wrote a riveting book about all this: “The Assassination of Fred Hampton.”

(Jeff’s segment runs from minute 01:15 to 19:00.)

US Media Targets Russia: the Politics Behind the New Witch Hunt

Brian Becker of Sputnik’s “Loud and Clear” moderates a wide ranging discussion among Salon journalist Ben Norton, Clinton Ehrlich (an American researcher in Moscow), and Ray.  Strategic issues of Russian foreign policy – like whether the Russians are preparing for war – are discussed, after obligatory palaver regarding how Russia is “interfering” in the U.S. election process (as “some say”).
https://sputniknews.com/radio_loud_and_clear/20160919/1045394755/us-media-targets-russia.html

September 19, 2016 (53 minutes)

After the announcement that the U.S. will give Israel a record $38 billion of military aid over the next 10 years, Ray was asked by presstv to comment on the reasons and the implications.  He cites George Washington, Dwight Eisenhower, and Pope Francis to address the “why,” and cites the carnage in Syria as one very current implication – not to mention the continued occupation Palestinian land seized in 1948 and 1967.  Washington plays the unconscionable role of enabler; could this be one major reason “they hate us?”

September 14, 2016 (6 min)

US Media Ignores CIA Cover-up on Torture

By Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)

September 16, 2016

 

US Media Ignores CIA Cover-up on Torture

VIPS describes how a constitutional crisis emerged when President Barack Obama tried to help CIA Director John Brennan scuttle a comprehensive Senate Intelligence Committee report, based on original CIA banality-of-evil cables, revealing the grotesque, heinous torture techniques used by the CIA after 9/11.  For the first time in recent memory, Congress faced the President down.  Committee chairman Dianne Feinstein rose to the occasion and refused to throw her intrepid investigators under the bus.

 

It is a truly gripping story, about which few details have been available –UNTIL NOW.  The Guardian’s Spencer Ackerman has interviewed the Senate Intelligence Committee’s top investigator, Daniel Johns, who took major risks to put an unvarnished report together and get it published.  Sen. Feinstein had to face both the CIA AND its powerful apologist, President Obama, to get the report published before Republicans took over the Senate.

 

The VIPS Memorandum thanking Sen. Feinstein, and asking her to see that the Guardian interviews of Daniel Jones get some play in U.S. media (there has been some kind of embargo so far), gives just a small taste for this fascinating inside story.  But it is not just “inside baseball,” so to speak.  Rather it has much wider relevance.  Perhaps most interesting are two things they reveal in gory detail: (1) Obama’s strong support of Brennan’s attempts to deep-six the report; and (2) Sen. Feinstein’s determination to prevent that from happening.

NOT Banned in Boston: Consortiumnews.com reporting by editor Robert Parry, VIPS, and Ray about the almost-mousetrapping of Obama into a major attack on Syria exactly three years ago has found its way onto the pages of the Boston Globe, thanks to a Tufts professor who apparently knows a thing or two about chemical agents like sarin.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/letters/2016/09/11/obama-was-wise-hold-back-syria/J4KvxkGAdglkpcd1BYcJ9H/story.html?event=event12

 

Here’s the text of Professor Jerry Meldon’s Letter to the Editor, September 12, 2016

Indira A.R. Lakshmanan understandably laments President Obama’s limited response to Syria’s endless humanitarian crisis (“The only change in Syria is for the worse,” Opinion, Sept. 2). But she’s on shaky ground when she reprises the 2013 neocon war-hawk allegation that the Bashar al-Assad regime “used sarin gas in Ghouta, killing . . . hundreds of civilians.”

Assad did possess chemical weapons, and Obama had ominously warned that deploying them would cross a “red line.” Fortunately, Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian President Vladimir Putin brokered a deal whereby Assad relinquished his deadly arsenal, which helped dissuade Obama from bombing Syria in retaliation for Assad’s purported authorization of the sarin attack.

In retrospect, it defied logic for Assad to deploy chemical weapons just when UN inspectors were in the Ghouta region. To former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, writing last month in Consortiumnews.com, “the evidence suggested instead a . . . Syrian rebel false-flag operation aimed at fabricating a pretext for direct US intervention.”

Veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh might well agree. In a recent interview in Truthout, Hersh stated that at the time of the August 2013 sarin attack, “the US and its allies knew from highly classified . . . intelligence reporting . . . that the jihadist opposition to Assad . . . had the ability to manufacture a crude form of sarin.”

Rather than criticism, Obama deserves great credit for defying the war hawks.

Jerry Meldon

Hopkinton

The writer is an associate professor in the chemical and biological engineering department at Tufts University.

Navy covered up Afghan sex slave problem to punish Marine – documents 

September 1, 2016

https://www.rt.com/usa/357946-sex-slave-afghanistan-marine/

 

“US Navy lawyers have advised against hearing a Marine’s appeal on the premise that it would grant attention to an Afghan sex slave scandal. The officer sent a classified memo via his own email to warn fellow Marines of danger, shortly before three were killed.

 

“In the summer of 2012, Captain Brian Donlon reached out to a fellow Marine Corps officer – Major Jason Brezler, then in the USMC Reserves – to ask about Sarwar Jan, a police chief in Afghanistan’s Helmand province with a reputation for corruption and keeping boys as sex slaves. Brezler answered by sending a dossier on Jan, using his Yahoo email account. Donlon warned him the document was classified, and refused to open it; Brezler reported the violation to the military authorities himself.

 

“Seventeen days later, on August 10, 2012, Ainuddin Khudairaham – one of Jan’s “servants” – broke into the base gym and shot four Marines, three of them fatally. Meanwhile, Brezler got into trouble for trying to warn his fellow Marines about Jan. A NCIS investigation into the email found classified documents on the computers he voluntarily turned over, and in December 2013, the Marine Corps decided to dismiss him from service. … “

 

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Messages that Julian Assange received from Chelsea Manning (now on a hunger strike in prison) and then posted on WikiLeaks had shed light on Afghan security forces sexual abuse of young boys, but this sad state of affairs found no mention in the “mainstream media,” except for the one chance Ray had to insert it – on CNN, no less.  The opportunity came right after Joe Biden branded Assange “a high-tech terrorist,” and CNN was apparently enlisted to “corroborate” that charge – which CNN proceeded to do by enlisting a bunch of “journalists” to show that Biden was right.

 

Ray was to be the patsy.  CNN asked him to try to explain why many of his VIPS colleagues and I could conceivably think Assange not a terrorist, but rather a journalist [I mean, come on already, like REALLY???].  It was all pretty transparent.  CNN “journalist” Don Lemon: “So, you really think he is not a terrorist?  I want to get that correct. You think he’s a journalist.”

 

(CNN) Ex-CIA Ray McGovern Supports Wikileaks’ Julian Assange.flv 

December 12, 2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVxkzRv-Zew  (5 minute-version)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf08RicoGno

(7 min.-version, with Bonnie & Clyde and other “terrorists” lead-in)

 

Ray was able to cram the following into the end of the interview:

 

“Find out why my taxpayer money is going to fund trafficked young boys performing dances in women’s clothing before the Afghan security forces whom we are recruiting to take over after we leave.  Take a look at the documents and see the abhorrent activities that our government has endorsed or done to its contractors.  And then tell me you don’t think the Americans can handle it.  Well I think the Americans can handle it, but they can’t handle it if they don’t have it.”

 

And, for those of you who might have missed seeing Ray on CNN domestic for over five years (his average before 2010 was one appearance every two years), the following gratuitous comment to CNN, from someone with a sense of humor, may help explain why:

 

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giles422

Posted January 8, 2011 at 9:34 AM

LOL “that’s going to have to be the last word” Ha ha- the last intelligent word.
You’ll not see McGovern on CNN air again. Put an end to that kind of smart talk. Shuffle those papers every time intelligence and honesty is heard…

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And so it goes.

Ray interviewed by RT International on the Clinton/Russia/email caper.

 

 

August 31, 2916 (5 minutes)

 

Hillary Clinton is still trying to persuade voters that (1) Putin wants Trump to win; (2) so, somehow, Putin is responsible for the exposure of the documentary evidence in the emails of Hillary and the DNC stealing the nomination from Bernie Sanders; and (3) and since Julian Assange/WikiLeaks published the (LEAKED not HACKED) data, Assange must be working for the Russians.  Got it?

 

Okay; it’s a stretch.  But as long as Hillary thinks she still needs to divert attention from the undisputed authenticity of the emails and the uniquely damaging material in them regarding her trickery of that of the DNC, and as long at the media cooperate, we can expect still more of this magnificent diversion – and tortured syllogism.