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A Need to Clear Up Clinton Questions As the Democrats glumly line up for Hillary Clinton's belated coronation, the risk remains of potential criminal charges over her Libyan testimony or her careless emails, as ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern describes.

(16 comments) SHARE        Saturday, April 30, 2016
Hillary Clinton's Damning Emails Before the Democrats lock in their choice for President, they might want to know if Hillary Clinton broke the law with her unsecure emails and may be indicted, a question that ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern addresses.

(5 comments) SHARE        Sunday, April 17, 2016
Is Hillary Clinton Above the Law? Secretary of State Clinton was harsh on subordinates who were careless with classified information, but those rules apparently weren't for her, a troubling double standard, says ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern.

(2 comments) SHARE        Sunday, April 17, 2016
The Shame of the Jesuits A spotlight has fallen on a shameful chapter in the history of Georgetown University's Jesuits, the 1838 sale of 272 African-Americans into Deep South slavery, but moral lapses didn't end there, says ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern.

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, April 15, 2016
Hillary Clinton's Gender Argument Hillary Clinton calls on women to support her to be the first female President, but all Americans should look carefully at her record advocating bloody, neocon "regime change" wars, says ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern.

(2 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, April 12, 2016
How an Iran War Was Averted A decade ago, the Bush administration was eager to bomb Iran but U.S. intelligence analysts challenged the casus belli by finding that Iran was not building a nuclear bomb, recalls ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern.

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US Intel Vets Warn Against Torture Experienced intelligence professionals reaffirm that torture -- while popular with "tough" politicians -- doesn't work in getting accurate and actionable information, says ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern.

(8 comments) SHARE        Friday, March 18, 2016
Behind the Crimea/Russia Reunion Official Washington marches in propaganda lockstep about Crimea's decision to rejoin Russia two years ago, with references to a Russian "invasion" and a "sham" referendum of Crimea's voters, but the reality is different, says ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern.

(2 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Putin Shuns Syrian "Quagmire" Gambling that President Obama will cooperate in seeking peace for Syria, Russian President Putin called back much of Russia's military force dispatched to Syria last fall, writes ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern.

(5 comments) SHARE        Friday, March 11, 2016
Hillary's Hypocrisy: Silent Protester Assaulted and Ejected from Speech Hillary Clinton on Thursday said she was "distraught and appalled" in response to Wednesday's assault on a protestor at a Donald Trump rally. In an interview with Rachel Maddow she stated that security at these events should handle demonstrators in an "appropriate manner," and defended the right to protest. She called the event "distressing."

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, February 26, 2016
VIPS Offers Advice to Candidates Former Secretary of State Clinton, whose campaign is brimming with establishment foreign policy advisers, has chided Democratic rival Sen. Sanders for lacking a roster of experts. But ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern says an untapped resource for any candidate is the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.

(4 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Recalling the Slaughter of Innocents From the Archive: The quarter-century anniversary of an early U.S. war crime in Iraq passed largely unnoticed this week, the bombing of a civilian air-raid shelter in Baghdad during President George H.W. Bush's Persian Gulf War, an atrocity that killed more than 400 women and children, as Ray McGovern recalled in 2011.

(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, January 30, 2016
Jerry Berrigan Blockade at Hancock Drone Base On Thursday morning, January 28, 30 life-sized cutouts of Syracuse peacemaker Jerry Berrigan blockaded the main entrance of Hancock Air National Guard Base outside Syracuse, NY. The 30 cutouts were accompanied by 12 nonviolent, drone-resisters, who were arrested and jailed after blockading for an hour and a half.

(3 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, January 26, 2016
The Iraq War's Known Unknowns In September 2002, as the Bush-43 administration was rolling out its ad campaign for invading Iraq because of alleged WMD, the Joint Chiefs of Staff received a briefing about the paucity of WMD evidence. But the report was shelved and the war went on, as ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern explains.

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, December 12, 2015
The Courage from Whistle-blowing Courage, like cowardice, can grow when an action by one person influences decisions by others, either toward bravery or fear. Thus, the gutsy whistle-blowing by some NSA officials inspired Edward Snowden to expose mass data collection on all Americans, recalls ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern.

(7 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, December 1, 2015
The US-Russia Proxy War in Syria The risk of Syria becoming a proxy war between the U.S. and Russia became real last week when Turkey and Syrian jihadists used U.S.-supplied weaponry to shoot down a Russian warplane and rescue helicopter, killing two Russians, a danger that ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern explores.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, November 18, 2015
CIA Whistleblower Kiriakou Honored CIA officer John Kiriakou, the first U.S. official to confirm that waterboarding was used to torture "war on terror" detainees, then faced a retaliatory prosecution and 30 months in prison. Recognizing his sacrifice, the literary group PEN gave Kiriakou its First Amendment Award, observed ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern.

(5 comments) SHARE        Sunday, November 8, 2015
Bush-41 Finally Speaks on Iraq War A dozen years too late, President George H.W. Bush has given voice to his doubts about the wisdom of rushing into the Iraq War, putting much of the blame on President George W. Bush's "iron-ass" advisers, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, as ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern explains.

(5 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Seeing Syrian Crisis Through Russian Eyes While there is a glimmer of hope that international negotiations may finally find a way to resolve the Syrian war, there is also growing pressure on President Obama to escalate U.S. military involvement even if that risks a wider war with Russia, a danger that ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern assesses.

(4 comments) SHARE        Sunday, October 18, 2015
Fox News: Giving the Nod to a Wannabe CIA Con Man Wayne Shelby Simmons, convinced Fox News and defense contractors that he was part of CIA's "outside paramilitary special operations group," and had led "Deep Cover Intel Ops." Alas, the "credentials" Simmons claimed proved as hard to verify as claims of WMD in Iraq. On Thursday he was accused of making false statements and major fraud against the United States, arrested, and jailed.