The real danger to our national security is showering the CIA covert operators with money and letting them concoct and implement outlandish schemes without any Congressional oversight or parental supervision. (5 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwMDQDf8LU0
On January 11 Ray was interviewed (5 min.) by RT regarding the intelligence failure accounting for the killings at Charlie Hebdo in Paris. As conspiracy theories multiply, he warns not to “misunderestimate” the fecklessness and naiveté of the clowns that have bubbled to the top of Western intelligence agencies since 9/11.
If the media do not explain the well established folly of adding still more spurious data to the haystack created by bulk electronic eavesdropping, the attention of detectives and intelligence analysts will continue to be diverted from tried and true investigative techniques. Thus, fewer needles will be uncovered under the towering haystack of “evidence;” there will be more attacks on soft targets like Charlie Hebdo; and even more money will be thrown at “collecting it all,” with still higher dividends for con-artist “intelligence” contractors already weighed down with bulging pockets.
For the interview, Ray temporarily left the Witness Against Torture activities on Jan. 11, marking the 13th anniversary of the arrival of the first prisoners at Guantanamo.
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(Torture in the eye of the beholder: Are there two sides to every issue – even torture??! Following are two short interviews conducted by Sky News on the afternoon of December 9, 2014, the day the CIA torture report was made public.)
CIA Torture: Sky News TV (UK) interviewed Ray a few hours after the Senate Intelligence Committee released the summary report on CIA “enhanced interrogation techniques.”
December 9, 2014 (4 minutes)
On Sky News TV a few minutes later: Former CIA official Michael Scheuer takes strong issue with notion that torture was a disgrace and counterproductive; calls it “close to idiocy to argue something like that.”
December 9, 2014 (5 minutes)
Ray looks back on how Obama let the neocons and chickenhawks destroy that trust, just because Putin helped him put the kibosh on their almost-war on Syria in Sept. 2013; and includes some suggestions for the year just beginning
December 29, 2014 Interview with Sophie Schevardnadze on RT (27 minutes, including 3-min. break starting at minute 11:40); complete transcript included
http://rt.com/shows/sophieco/218279-gitmo-torture-terror-cia/
Udall’s (and our) Last Chance
A Memorandum from Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
When the song of the angels is stilled,
When the star in the sky is gone,
When the kings and princes are home,
When the shepherds are back with their flocks,
The work of Christmas begins:
To find the lost,
To heal the broken,
To feed the hungry,
To release the prisoner,
To rebuild the nations,
To bring peace among brothers and sisters,
To make music in the heart.
— Howard Thurman
http://tellsomebody.libsyn.com/kathy-kellys-conviction-ray-mcgoverns-confrontation
Last year at this time, Kathy and Ray Witnessed Before Gates of CIA. For more on the Dec. 14, 2013 protest see:
Drone Warfare Protest at CIA Follows Strike on Civilians in Yemen
Kathy was the main speaker. She and Ray were boat-mates, together with other Justice people, on the U.S. Boat to Gaza, summer 2011.
In the Tell Somebody interview Kathy speaks on the day before she was sentenced to 3 months in prison for “criminal trespass” in stepping over the line at Whiteman Air Force Base near Kansas City, MO. Kathy shares her thoughts on drones, prison, and the “gap between law and justice.”
Oddly, Ray, who is a friend of Kathy, also goes on trial for “criminal trespass and resisting arrest” in NY City Criminal Court on Feb. 4. (It’s the next installment in the “We-Won’t Let-You-Into-The-92nd-Street-Y-To-Ask-Petraeus-Awkward-Questions-About-Drones-And-Torture-Even-Though-You-Have-A-Ticket” affair.)
Kathy is typically eloquent, listing the questions she hoped to ask the Air Force brass at Whiteman, if they let he through the gate. She explains how the Court finally concluded that she needs to be “rehabilitated.”
Tom brings Ray in from minute 20:15 and 32:30 to talk about the Senate Intelligence Committee torture report released on Dec. 9; then asks him to discuss his confrontation on Dec. 11 with Pete Hoekstra. He was chair of the House Intelligence Committee, admits to having been fully briefed on “enhanced interrogation techniques,” and continues to defend them. Tom tacks onto the end of the interview the audio of the Pete-and-Ray heated, two-minute discussion on live TV.
How was it that Powell let himself be bullied into giving that UN speech based on fraudulent “intelligence?” Larry also tells us what, when, and how he learned about the torture and how it was “authorized.”
A MUST LISTEN – 32 minutes (from min. 00:50 to 32:30)
http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/12/11/121114-lawrence-wilkerson/