As an Amazon Associate I Earn from Qualifying Purchases
Click to visit the TBP Store for Great TBP Merchandise
Wrongheaded U.S. Leadership in Ukraine
Tag: Ray McGovern
Tales From the Dark Side: Ray McGovern
Guest Post by Jesse
Here is a discussion that covers a variety of topics.
I find it to be fascinating. It goes well with a drink in the evening when nothing is on the boob tube.
McGovern is a good conversationalist. He is the kind of guy you might like to have a cup of coffee or a beer with, and just talk— even if he was not a very knowledgeable former insider. He and his partner at VIPS, Bill Binney, tend to piss a lot of people off, because they are willing to give voice to unpopular opinions, to it like it is, and back it up with reasoning and facts.. It is a dangerous habit in a time of general deceit. After all, we kill the prophets, and stone those messengers sent to warn us.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“He’s afraid of what happened to Martin Luther King Jr. And I know from a good friend who was there when it happened, that at a small dinner with progressive supporters – after these progressive supporters were banging on Obama before the election, ‘Why don’t you do the things we thought you stood for?’
Obama turned sharply and said, ‘Don’t you remember what happened to Martin Luther King Jr.?’ That’s a quote, and that’s a very revealing quote.”
Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst for Russian affairs
Russiagate and Seth Rich
Allen Richie’s interview with Ray McGovern. Jimmy Dore’s interview with Bill Binney and The Still Report on Ambassador Craig Murray (Daily Mail).
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“We suddenly have documentary proof that key elements of the U.S. intelligence community were trying to short-circuit the U.S. democratic process. And that puts in a new and dark context the year-long promotion of Russia-gate. It now appears that it was not the Russians trying to rig the outcome of the U.S. election, but leading officials of the U.S. intelligence community, shadowy characters sometimes called the Deep State…
But the main casualty is the FBI’s 18-month campaign to sabotage candidate-and-now-President Donald Trump by using the Obama administration’s Russia-gate intelligence ‘assessment,’ electronic surveillance of dubious legality, and a salacious dossier that could never pass the smell test, while at the same time using equally dubious techniques to immunize Hillary Clinton and her closest advisers from crimes that include lying to the FBI and endangering secrets.”
Ray McGovern, The FBI Hand Behind Russia-gate
Gen. Petraeus: Too Big To Jail, Too Hypocritical To Shame
Guest Post by Ray McGovern at Consortium News
The leniency shown former CIA Director (and retired General) David Petraeus by the Justice Department in sparing him prison time for the serious crimes that he has committed puts him in the same preferential, immune-from-incarceration category as those running the financial institutions of Wall Street, where, incidentally, Petraeus now makes millions. By contrast, “lesser” folks – and particularly the brave men and women who disclose government crimes – get to serve time, even decades, in jail.
Petraeus is now a partner at KKR, a firm specializing in large leveraged buyouts, and his hand-slap guilty plea to a misdemeanor for mishandling government secrets should not interfere with his continued service at the firm. KKR’s founders originally worked at Bear Stearns, the institution that failed in early 2008 at the beginning of the meltdown of the investment banking industry later that year.
Despite manifestly corrupt practices like those of subprime mortgage lenders, none of those responsible went to jail after the 2008-09 financial collapse which cost millions of Americans their jobs and homes. The bailed-out banks were judged “too big to fail” and the bankers “too big to jail.”
Two years ago, in a highly revealing slip of the tongue, Attorney General Eric Holder explained to Congress that it can “become difficult” to prosecute major financial institutions because they are so large that a criminal charge could pose a threat to the economy – or perhaps what he meant was an even bigger threat to the economy.
Holder tried to walk back his unintended slip into honesty a year later, claiming, “There is no such thing as ‘too big to jail.’” And this bromide was dutifully echoed by Holder’s successor, Loretta Lynch, at her confirmation hearing in late January.
Words, though, are cheap. The proof is in the pudding. It remains true that not one of the crooked bankers or investment advisers who inflicted untold misery on ordinary people, gambling away much of their life savings, has been jailed. Not one.
Continue reading “Gen. Petraeus: Too Big To Jail, Too Hypocritical To Shame”