Asylum for Julian Assange, Awardee for Integrity

Ray notes that Assange was 2010 winner of annual Integrity Award granted by Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence. On behalf of SAAII, Ray on June 24 delivered a letter to the Ecuadorian embassy in Washington requesting that Ecuador grant Assange political asylum. A brief commentary, the letter, and its three enclosures appear in:

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Asylum-for-Julian-Assange-by-Ray-McGovern-120625-997.html


 

Ray further on L’Affaire Assange

The Real News Network (video interview; 12 minutes)

Ray comments on likelihood that Ecuador will grant WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, political asylum and, if so, possible physical dangers, as well as legal obstacles that may lie in wait for Assange between the Ecuadorian embassy and a London airport. Ray draws attention to a very long lead editorial in the Washington Post on June 21, which ends with an open threat of U.S. economic retaliation against Ecuador: “If Mr.[Ecuadorian President] Correa seeks to appoint himself America’s chief Latin American enemy and Julian Assange’s protector…” (Who needs a State Department, when the U.S. administration can depend on the stenographers at the Post?)


http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=8511

ASSANGE’S ECUADOR EMBASSY EXCURSION: HACKING OR SLACKING?
’Five O’Clock Shadow’: UPDATE (from June 21, 5:00 PM, ET)


http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/60926

-Robert Knight, Senior National Correspondent, WBAI 99.5FM . wbai.org

Robert Knight: Wikileaks publisher JULIAN ASSANGE remains under sanctuary at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, as he awaits a decision on his plea for political asylum in Ecuador. Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern discusses whether Assange’s abrupt escape from house arrest with surveillance and electronic “tracking” was the product of “hacking” by Assange, or “slacking” by British officials secretly amenable to a back-door solution for a diplomatic crisis. McGovern, the author of “Julian Assange’s Artful Dodge” [ http://consortiumnews.com ] also contemplates potential clandestine hazards to Assange’s life and freedom.

KILL LISTS

The Moral Challenge of ‘Kill Lists’, Ray discusses Obama/Brennan ‘Kill List’, 5/30/12
http://consortiumnews.com/2012/05/30/the-moral-challenge-of-kill-lists/

Aljazeera program Inside Story: “How effective are U.S. drone strikes?”
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestoryamericas/2012/06/2012668456229408.html

Ray interviewed on Michael Ratner’s radio program “Law and Disorder” by Heidi Boghosian & Michael Smith, June 6, 2012
 (26 minutes)

Includes discussion of moral implications of the White House “Kill List” compiled by John Brennan & protests against Brennan at Fordham commencement.

Ray also responds to questions on the inspiration and support he draws from the ecumenical Church of the Saviour, in Washington.

(Ray’s segment is from minute 29 to minute 55.)

Obama’s and Brennan’s “Kill List” (video)
 Ray interviewed on The Real News Network, 5/30/12
 “It is a moral and legal impossibility to square ‘kill lists’ for extrajudicial killing with traditional legal and moral American values.
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http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=8394
(14 minutes)