Those two minutes say a lot; they are part of the following article, cum video links, that was posted on Dec. 14 (see “Clashing Face-to-Face…” below).
Clashing Face-to-Face with Torture Enabler
By Ray McGovern, December 14, 2014
What’s the Next Step to Stop Torture?
The grim details about CIA torture – from waterboarding to “rectal rehydration” – have put torture apologists on the defensive. Now the question is how to make sure this behavior doesn’t happen again. Hats off to Sen. Dianne Feinstein for staring the President down and preventing the usual “Obama-cave-in;” for not throwing her thoroughly professional staffers under the bus; and for giving the American people a chance to see what the thugs – from George W. Bush to the most junior torturer “just following orders” – have done in our name. Ray reviews the bidding as CIA Director John Brennan prepares to go on live TV.
Thom Hartmann interviews Ray on Dec. 12 regarding the ‘Two CIAs;’ his work in the Analysis CIA; and how the Operations CIA wound up saluting orders from Cheney and Bush to torture – as revealed in the gory summary report issued on Dec. 9 by the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Ray’s interview begins at minute 30:00 and lasts 26 minutes if you skip the commercials between minutes 42:50 and 45:05.
Amy Goodman, Fred Fleitz, and Ray on RT’s CrossTalk Discuss Senate Report on Torture
24 minutes, if you skip the commercials from min. 12:00 to 16:10
http://rt.com/shows/crosstalk/213639-us-cia-tortures-sic/
Stifling Dissent on the Upper East Side
by Todd E. Pierce, Major, US Army JAG (ret.)
Modern U.S. counterinsurgency doctrine doesn’t just target people in faraway lands where the U.S. military is battling some uprising. It also takes aim at Americans whose dissent might undermine those wars, possibly explaining the strange arrest and jailing of Ray McGovern on Oct. 30, writes Todd Pierce. (Ray’s trial in New York City Criminal Court has been set for Feb. 4.)
Will Godot arrive next week?
Ray discusses the Waiting-for-Godot Senate Intelligence Committee report on torture, December 4, 2014 (5 minutes)
Ray on the radio
From Pete Seeger & grandson Tao Rodriguez to Dan Berrigan:from Ray’s arrest at Petraeus event at 92nd St. Y to NYPD Precinct 19; from Precinct 19 to The Tombs on Halloween; from The Tombs to the first Judge for arraignment (and then to trial on Dec. 8); from the Catholic Worker to teaching at Fordham & Manhattan to the Berrigan brothers. Ray’s Bronx accent shows through in interview with Mort Mecklosky of Community Radio in Stony Brook, L. I. Don’t miss “SOME,” Dan Berrigan’s poignant poem at about the 39:00 min mark.
(Ray’s interview begins at about the 3:00 mark)
RT/Arabic interviews Ray on Middle East Issues
(25 minutes)
In Arabic but most of Ray’s remarks in English can be discerned under the dubbing.
http://arabic.rt.com/prg/telecast/766826-%D8%B6%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B7-%D8%B3%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%87–%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%B4-%D8%A8%D8%BA%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AF/
Ray speaks in NYC on anniversary of JFK’s murder; endorses call for release of the suppressed, Saudi-related 28 pages of the report on 9/11 of the Joint Congressional “Investigation” of 2002
What those pages reveal might well unravel some key outstanding mysteries diligently kept unsolvable by the keepers of the secrets.