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By Ray McGovern on May 20, 2008 in Anti-Semitism, CIA, Commander in Chief, Dick Cheney, Flag officers, Generals Against War, Intelligence, Iran, Israel, Media, Media Bias, NIE, Nancy Pelosi, New York Times, Nuclear weapons, Patraeus, Pentagon, Petraeus, Rice, U.S. Constitution | 91 Comments
To Admiral William Fallon (USN ret.), With Respect
(Open Appeal for Straight Talk on Iran)
By Ray McGovern
May 19, 2008
Dear Admiral Fallon:
I have not been able to find out how to reach you directly, so I have drafted this letter in the hope it will come to your attention.
First, thank you for honoring the oath we commissioned […]
By Ray McGovern on Mar 31, 2008 in Bush/Cheney, Foreign Policy, Foreign affairs, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Petraeus | 6 Comments
By Ray McGovern
Events of last week offer a metaphorical glimpse at the delusion pervading President George W. Bush’s White House and other enclaves of Iraq supporters in Washington. Bush and the First Lady spent last Monday clowning with the Easter Bunny (White House counsel Fred Fielding having donned the costume).
At the American Enterprise Institute […]
By Ray McGovern on Mar 26, 2008 in Bush/Cheney, CIA, Colin Powell, Foreign affairs, Intelligence, Iraq, Israel, Petraeus, Rice | 16 Comments
Frontline: Too Timid, Too Little, Too Late: Frontline’s “Bush’s War” on PBS Monday and Tuesday evening was a nicely put-together rehash of the top players’ trickery that led to the attack on Iraq, together with the power-grabbing, back-stabbing, and limitless incompetence of the occupation.
By Ray McGovern on Feb 6, 2008 in Bush/Cheney, CIA, Current Affairs, Gonzales, Hillary Clinton, Intelligence, Iraq, Media, Torture, counterterrorism | 33 Comments
February 6, 2008
Powell’s UN Fiasco: Fresh and Festering
By Ray McGovern
Yesterday was a difficult day for Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. It was hard to celebrate the fifth anniversary of our first corporate memorandum, a same-day critique of Colin Powell’s Feb. 5, 2002 UN address, when we could not escape the reality that this speech greased […]
By Ray McGovern on Feb 2, 2008 in Bush/Cheney, DoD, Guantanamo, Health Care, Iraq, Soldiers/Veterans, Torture | 35 Comments
“For the oppressors, what is worthwhile is to have more—always more—even at the cost of the oppressed having less or having nothing. For them, to be is to have and to be the class of the ‘haves.’”
Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Finally, the truth is seeping out. Contrary to how President George W. […]
By Ray McGovern on Jan 13, 2008 in Uncategorized | 84 Comments
Gulf Shenanigans: No Laughing Matter
By Ray McGovern
When the Tonkin Gulf incident took place in early August 1964, I was a journeyman CIA analyst in what Condoleezza Rice refers to as “the bowels of the agency.” As current intelligence referent for Russian policy toward Southeast Asia and China, I worked very closely with those responsible […]
By Ray McGovern on Dec 13, 2007 in Bush/Cheney, Torture, counterterrorism | 51 Comments
A boyish, inquisitive face with an innocent look peered out from the Washington Post’s lead story on torture. It was well groomed, pink-shirted John Kiriakou, a CIA interrogator who could just as easily pass for the local youth minister. …
By Ray McGovern on Oct 6, 2007 in Current Affairs | 145 Comments
October 5, 2007
So Who’s Afraid of the Israel Lobby?
By Ray McGovern
Virtually everyone: Republican, Democrat—Conservative, Liberal. The fear factor is non-partisan, you might say, and palpable.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) brags that it is the most influential foreign policy lobbying organization on Capitol Hill, and has demonstrated that time and again—and not only on […]
By Ray McGovern on Sep 28, 2007 in Current Affairs | 31 Comments
It is an exceedingly dangerous time. Vice President Dick Cheney and his hard-core “neo-conservative” protégés in the administration and Congress are pushing harder and harder for President George W. Bush, isolated from reality, to honor the promise he made to Israel to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
On Sept. 23, former national security […]
By Ray McGovern on Sep 17, 2007 in Current Affairs | 22 Comments
For those still wondering why President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney sent our young men and women into Iraq, the secret is now “largely” out.
No, not from the lips of former secretary of state Colin Powell. It appears we shall have to wait until the disgraced general/diplomat draws nearer to […]
