Category: Ray McGovern

By Ray McGovern Note: Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern spoke at a rally on Sunday in support of Pfc. Bradley Manning, the young soldier who is alleged to have given classified material…

by: Ray McGovern For the CIA supervisors and operatives who were responsible for torture, the chickens are coming home to roost. That is, if President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder…

  By Ray McGovern July 7, 2009   This article, including the following Editor’s Note, originally appeared on the web site of Consortium News.   Editor’s Note: Prior to giving some talks…

by Ray McGovern, Consortium News http://www.alternet.org/story/88786/ Unlike the attack on Iraq five years ago, to deal with Iran there need be no massing of troops. And, with the propaganda buildup already well…

By Ray McGovern, April 21, 2008 Torture: Fresh reporting by ABC from inside sources depicted George W. Bush’s most senior aides (Cheney, Powell, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, Rice and Tenet) meeting dozens of times in…

Waterboarders for God By Ray McGovern, www.consortiumnews.com [1] After one spends 45 years in Washington, high farce does not normally throw one off balance. But I found the events of Thursday to…

By Ray McGovern  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…