Generals Who “Think they can lie and get away with it!”*

*(a Rumsfeldian aphorism, expressed with a shake of the head and a tsk-tsk by one who knows)

NSA and Cyber Warfare Director, Army General Keith Alexander caught in 53 – or perhaps only 52 – lies to Congress; he gets support from former Air Force general and current Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, who has confessed to perjuring himself before Congress, giving what he later called “clearly erroneous” testimony. And both are still in place? “Is this a great country, or what?” (to quote former White House perjurer/shredder, Ollie North).

Ray interviewed on Alexander/Clapper Oct. 2 Senate testimony

(4 min.)

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/10/03/327405/nsa-chief-misleading-public-obama/

 

Syria: How space for peace was carved out at last minute: factors in play

Ray interviewed by David Leonard, News Director, KYNT Radio, Yankton, South Dakota.

Four 7-minute segments:

1 – Origins of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS); the evidence on chemicals and Syria; the real target; what prompted President Barack Obama to say Sunday (Sept. 15) on ABC’s This Week: “My suspicion is that the Iranians recognize they shouldn’t draw a lesson that we haven’t struck [Syria], to think we won’t strike Iran.”

2 – The evidence, such as it is, regarding the August 21 chemical event in suburbs of Damascus; where’s the meat? What did President Ronald Reagan do when confronted with a similar dilemma?

3 – Why is White House so reluctant to follow Reagan’s example? Is White House delay a sign that the evidence of Assad’s involvement is not conclusive? Is it true that the rebels could not have obtained Sarin? “Trust us,” says the White House, even as James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, confesses publicly to lying under oath to Congress.

4 – Russia’s role. What changed Obama’s mind from the afternoon of August 30 to the afternoon of August 31? Likely role of the military, especially Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey; all of a sudden, the president says that Dempsey had assured him that striking Syria is not “time-sensitive.” Dempsey, faithful to his solemn oath to support and defend the Constitution, protects Obama’s back by noting that there is no military downside to postponing decision on Syria.

Syria: Scott Horton (of antiwar.com) interviews Ray, and they really get into it

For example, the role of the Joint Chiefs Chairman (as well as the American people) in reversing Obama’s decision to attack; the flimsy evidence that Assad approved a chemical attack in the suburbs of Damascus on August 21 (show us the beef); the stakes for the Israelis, who have said that “the best outcome of the war in Syria is no outcome;” and the possibilities that now lie open as a result of the willingness of Moscow and Washington to work together effectively to tamp things down in Syria.

44 minutes (can skip the first minute)

http://scotthorton.org/2013/09/16/91613-ray-mcgovern/