Ray on “Unspun,” KKRN, Redding, CA, Dec. 7, 2013
Ray’s segment runs from minutes 32 to 59 (but — truth in advertising — there’s no “Sex”).
http://kkrn.org/broadcasts/view/328
A View from the CIA – Ray talks to Jesuit magazine “America”
(22 min)
During Ray’s 27 years as a CIA analyst, including briefing duties at the White House, what was the moral impact of his Jesuit education and his oath as a young Army officer to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
Htt://americamagazine.org/media/podcasts/view-cia
ACLU: Al-Aulaqi v. Panetta: Lawsuit Challenging Targeted Killings
YOU CAN’T PLAY FAST & LOOSE WITH THE 5TH AMENDMENT
https://www.aclu.org/national-security/al-aulaqi-v-panetta
(Might be helpful for those who think Congress can pass laws that are on their face UNCONSTITUTIONAL and/or that the Executive can make/implement secret interpretations at variance with a law’s intent and legislative history.)
U.S. Government Shutting Down a Key News Source
By Elizabeth Murray, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
This cuts us hoi polloi out of a very rich – indeed, invaluable – source of raw, unadulterated information to analyze. I’ll bet that the hoi aristoi – the favored journalists, newspapers, and academics – will still get the feed, as long as they remain “cooperative,” apply the approved spin, and don’t act up. That may be why there is no hue and cry this time from the usual quarters. Have they ALL been co-opted?
For the rest of us, it will now be much harder convincingly to expose distortion and spin, since we shall lack access to the original raw material being spun. For example, we will no longer be able to prove that senior Iranian leaders never threatened to “drive Israel into the sea,” or “wipe Israel off the map.”
Perhaps it is the case that one has to have had deep experience working in the political science sub-discipline of media analysis to realize what lucrative intelligence it can yield – today just as much as in the past. Proper analysis of a foreign leader’s remarks is often of far more intelligence value than the hundred million conversations that NSA collects every day and adds to the haystack against the day one or two might come in handy. Or as Dick Cheney has put it, “You never know when you might need it.”
The loss of access to original open sources is a major blow to those of us who know what a fertile field open media is to plow. This decision will be very bad news if it is not reversed.
First there were “Nuns on the Bus.” Now, in the same vein of Justice and full disclosure, we’ve got “Ed Snowden on the Bus” in Washington D.C.
The crowd funded ‘Thank You Ed Snowden’ bus ad campaign, launched this week, was organized by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF).
“The elites in D.C. may not ride the bus, but they can’t avoid reading the bus!” the group wrote on it’s donation site.
http://rt.com/usa/thank-you-snowden-buses-311/
Karzai: again “not an adequate strategic partner”
Ray comments to RT on Karzai’s latest flip-flop; Nov. 21, 2013
(Ray’s segment runs from 2:46-12:40.)
Finding Snowden
By Silkie Carlo, November 2013
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/finding-snowden
This is a follow-up to Silkie Carlo’s initial article of Sept. 2013 (see link below “In the Wistleblower Chalet”) describing us whistleblowers at OHM2013 near Amsterdam wondering how and when they might get to Moscow to present the Sam Adams Award for Integrity to Edward Snowden.
What happened was remarkable: the 3,000 participants at OHM2013 passed the hat and collected enough to “crowdsource” our travel; WikiLeaks journalist Sarah Harrison worked out the arrangements in Russia; and, Voila!, there we were, presenting the award and having a long, relaxed conversation with Ed Snowden.
Germans Join Everyone Else In Rating Obama Low in Handling NSA Flap
Ray interviewed on Skype by presstv, Nov. 18, 2013 (5 min.)