Clapper was hawking his memoir Hard Truths in Intelligence. In book he admits he found Iraqi WMD that “wasn’t really there.” (Transcript at https://raymcgovern.com/2019/01/06/transcript-when-clapper-was-asked-real-questions/ ) I charged him with doing likewise finding Russian hacking of DNC “that wasn’t really there”
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/08/02/clappers-claptrap/
Sen. Grassley showed some cojones in releasing the Appendix to John Durham’s anemic report on intelligence abuses in 2016. Turns out it was “Ambassador” Julianne Smith who persuaded Clinton to lie and blame Putin for “hacking” those embarrassing DNC emails
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/08/01/ray-mcgovern-the-deep-states-burst-appendix/
My colleague Graham Fuller, who joined me in CIA’s Junior Officers Training Program in early 1963, and I gave Nima the kind of Intelligence Briefing that CIA gave to JFK. No BS, no exclusive focus on worldwide threats – but rather on opportunities as well.
What fun to go down Memory Lane with these great, CREDIBLE Duran folks. Like Consortium News consortiumnews.com/2025/07/24/wat, they saw through the drivel on Russian hacking. And now they ask the right questions and give me time to answer. Enjoy.
Russia-gate: Can You Handle the Truth? I gave this talk 7 yrs ago in Seattle. It turned out that the audience, progressive but malnourished on accurate information, could not handle it. “Cameos” by Adam Schiff & Devon Nunes. It was not hard to get it right.
Tulsi Gabbard’s released documents show crimes by Obama, Brennan, Clapper, Comey in 2016-17: Deep State/Media/Democrat plotting against Trump. DOCUMENTS. VIPS did gutsy contemporaneous reporting as Russiagate evolved; were ostracized. Binney & I reminisce.
Eight years ago today VIPS Memo #50 asked: Was the “Russian Hack” an Inside Job? Dem-leaning The Nation had a conniption, fired veteran columnist Patrick Lawrence for telling this neuralgic story. We were sternly warned NEVER EVER to utter words Seth Rich
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/07/24/intel-vets-challenge-russia-hack-evidence/
There is only us; there never has been any other (Annie Dillard). WE are the ones we’ve been waiting for. With genocide in Gaza & West Bank, we must not ape sheepish Germans of the 30’s when both Catholic & Lutheran Churches caved. Read, weep, pls THEN ACT
https://covertactionmagazine.com/?p=79802&preview=1&_ppp=eb3366ccb5
Released House Intel Committee report shows CIA’s Brennan & FBI’s Comey “fixed the intelligence” on Russiagate, just as Brennan’s patron former CIA chief Tenet did to “justify” Iraq. Michael van Landingham admits drafting the “fixed” Intel Community Assmt.
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/08/08/ray-mcgovern-decay-decrepitude-deceit-in-journalism/