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Ray McGovern: Proof Bush Fixed The Facts
Thursday, 5 May 2005, 1:19 pm | Ray McGovern
"Intelligence and facts are being fixed around the policy." Never in our wildest dreams did we think we would see those words in black and white—and beneath a SECRET stamp, no less. For three years now, we in Veteran Intelligence Professionals for ... More >>
Ray McGovern: The Intelligence Made Me Do It
Monday, 21 March 2005, 11:40 am | Ray McGovern
Let's review now. It was bad intelligence that made President George W. Bush invade Iraq, right? No, you say, and you are correct; that is just White House spin. The "intelligence" was conjured up many months after President George W. Bush's decision ... More >>
Who Now Will Read To The President In The Morning?
Tuesday, 8 March 2005, 5:04 pm | Ray McGovern
Senate skids have been greased for John Negroponte to be confirmed as the first director of national intelligence. Never mind that he deliberately misled Congress about serious human rights abuses in Honduras where he was ambassador from 1981 to 1985. More >>
All Mosquitos, No Swamp; No Elephants Either
Monday, 6 December 2004, 12:33 am | Ray McGovern
Last Thursday's conference on ''Al Qaeda 2.0: Transnational Terrorism After 9/11,'' sponsored by the New America Foundation and the New York University Center on Law & Security, was a valuable gift to those wanting an update on informed opinion on ... More >>
McGovern: More Troops To Iraq...After The Election
Thursday, 30 September 2004, 2:07 pm | Ray McGovern
It's not an ''if''. It's a ''when''. Pentagon officials have indicated that they plan to send as many as 15,000 additional troops during the first four months of 2005, and the President George W. Bush continues to insist ''we will stay the course'' ... More >>
Not Scared Yet? Try Connecting These Dots
Tuesday, 10 August 2004, 2:25 pm | Ray McGovern
''Pre-election period...pre-election plot...pre-election threats:'' These rolled off National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice's lips no less than seven times yesterday on CNN's Late Edition as she discussed the likely timing of a terrorist attack. She ... More >>
Ray McGovern: The CIA and Iraq
Thursday, 15 July 2004, 3:28 pm | Ray McGovern
In our various oral and written presentations on Iraq my veteran intelligence officer colleagues and I took no delight in sharply criticizing what we perceived to be the corruption of intelligence analysis at CIA. Nothing would have pleased us more than ... More >>
Cheney Cat's Paw, Porter Goss, as CIA Director?
Saturday, 3 July 2004, 7:54 pm | Ray McGovern
There is, thankfully, a remnant of CIA professionals who still put objective analysis above political correctness and career advancement. Just when they thought there were no indignities left for them to suffer, they are shuddering again at press reports ... More >>
Ray McGovern: Helicopter Down
Wednesday, 5 November 2003, 11:03 am | Ray McGovern
The killing of 18 U.S. troops and the wounding of 21 others in Iraq on Nov. 2 brings to mind the successful attack by Viet Cong guerrillas on U.S. forces in Pleiku, Vietnam on February 7, 1965. More >>
