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"From: sbwhoeop [Sidney Blumenthal]
To: H (Hillary Clinton)
Sent: Fri Feb 18, 09:27:25, 2011
Subject: H: FYI, an unfortunate incident. Sid
"Don't know if you are aware of this unfortunate incident described below on Larry Johnson's website. Ray McGovern, a former CIA officer who gave the daily brief for President George H.W. Bush, is pretty well known in the intelligence community. He's become a Christian antiwar leftist who goes around bearing witness. Whatever his views, he's harmless. Something bad happened at your speech at GW. And it's become a minor cause celebre on the Internet among lefties. You might have someone check this out and also have someone apologize to Ray McGovern. Sid"
From Sidney Blumenthal (continued)
"Larry C. Johnson is a former analyst at the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, who moved subsequently in 1989 to the U.S. Department of State, where he served four years as the deputy director for transportation security, anti-terrorism assistance training, and special operations in the State Department's Office of Counter-terrorism. He left government ... in October 1993 ... and is an expert in the fields of terrorism, aviation security, and crisis and risk management, and money laundering investigations. Johnson is the founder and main author of No Quarter, a weblog that addresses issues of terrorism and intelligence and politics.)"
Blumenthal then quoted from a blog piece that Johnson wrote after hearing what happened during Secretary Clinton's speech at GWU on Feb. 15:
"During a speech by Hillary earlier this week at George Washington University retired CIA analyst, Ray McGovern, was physically accosted and arrested for disorderly conduct for the simple act of standing up and turning his back to Hillary. Ray ended his career at the CIA as one of the senior officers who provided George H.W. Bush his daily intelligence brief. Since then Ray has emerged as an anti-war activist. Ray is a fearless but he also is a kind, gentle soul. ...
"Unfortunately Hillary is getting blamed for what happened to Ray, but it is not her fault. Hillary is not in charge of her security detail. ... He had every right to stand and silently protest. He posed no threat to Hillary and made no threatening move. The security folks grossly over-reacted. ... Since the folks inside the auditorium had gone thru a metal detector there was no reason to assume that Ray represented a threat to do harm. It is the ultimate irony that the Obama Administration is calling on foreign leaders to tolerate protest and dissent but when it comes to an old man standing silently there was no tolerance at all."
[end of shortened text of email from Larry Johnson, quoted by Sidney Blumenthal]
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Secretary Clinton then replied:
To: Sidney Blumenthal Subject: "H: FYI, AN UNFORTUNATE INCIDENT. SID"
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