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Guest: Ray McGovern. Hosts: Joanne Leon and Kelley Lane. We talk about Ray’s recent article calling for military generals to be held accountable this time, for this 20-year March of Folly called the War in Afghanistan. If they are not held accountable, there will be still worse to come.  In a bonus episode, we talk about Biden’s battle with the media, the intelligence complex and the whole “MICIMATT” (an acronym that Ray has coined for the Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think-Tank complex, the same complex that worked so hard to put him in the White House. 

Ray McGovern is a retired CIA analyst who served as Chief of the Soviet Foreign Policy Branch and preparer/briefer of the President’s Daily Brief. Prior to that he served as an infantry/intelligence officer in the 1960’s. He is co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), an activist, a prolific writer and a frequent guest on various media outlets.  

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Recorded on August 23, 2021. Music by Fluorescent Grey.

Reference Links:

1. Hold the Generals Accountable This Time, Ray McGovern
2. Welcome to Vietnam, Mr. President, Ray McGovern
3. $10,000 Invested in Defense Stocks When Afghanistan War Began Now Worth Almost $100,000, Jon Schwarz
4. Book: The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam, Barbara W. Tuchman

Lee talks about how every speech at the Democratic National Convention was filled with hypocrisies and lies + Jeff Bezos makes more money in one minute than you do in a year, an interview with Ray McGovern and so much more! 

Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity's Ray McGovern and Bill Binney analyse the evidence, and lack thereof, behind the Russiagate narrative that consumed America for 3 years, and Guccifer 2.0's diverse claims about hacking, Russians & Wikileaks. Bill Binney is a former NSA technical Director.

Ray McGovern is a former CIA analyst (Head of Russia Desk) and former Chair of National Intelligence Estimates. He also prepared the daily brief for two US presidents.

Special thanks to Tim Leonard.

In the last week before Julian Assange's extradition hearing, people flocked from around the world to London, to defend the imprisoned journalist and call for his release. CN Live! covered a myriad of events and spoke with a number of participants about the significance of this case, which the UK Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell has referred to as the Drefus case of our time.

CONTENTS 00:00:00 Kristinn Hrafnsson ”We’re dealing with a Dark Force” (22 Feb 2020) 00:01:48 Patrick Henningsen Reads letter (22 Feb 2020) from “ïnternational jurists” to UK PM Boris Johnson (et al) 00:22:18 Craig Murray “Julian refused to give up a source in the hope of securing his own freedom.” (22 Feb 2020) 00:25:30 Extradition Special LONDON - to DAY 1 of hearing (24 Feb 2020) 00:26:31 Emmy Butlin & Angie Curran, 00:26:43 John McDonnell outside Belmarsh (20 Feb 2020) 00:28:27 Jennifer Robinson, WL Press Conference (18 Feb 2020) 00:28:46 Andrew Wilkie, George Christiensen (18 Feb 2020) 00:29:44 George Christiensen, WL Press Conference (18 Feb 2020) 00:30:53 Frontline Club Patrick Cockburn & Richard Gizbert (20 Feb 2020) 00:33:29 Mark Davis in Sydney on Afgan War Logs (9 Aug 2019) 00:41:00 Randi Credico, Australia House London (22 Feb 2020) 00:44:20 March to Parliament Sq, London (22 Feb 2020) 00:45:21 John Shipton (22 Feb 2020) 00:46:56 Roger Waters (22 Feb 2020) 00:49:44 Tareq Ali (22 Feb 2020) 00:55:19 Joe Lauria discusses several key issues 00 59:19 Outside the court (24 Feb 2020) 01:01:35 Studio Interview: Catherine Brown Presented jurist open letter (read out above) to 10 Downing Street (23 Feb 2020) 01:12:48 Yanis Varoufakis (22 Feb 2020) 01:19:23 Studio Interview Alexander Mercouris (23 Feb 2020) 01:44:32 Patrick Henningsen with Joe Lauria (22 Feb 2020) 01:50:08 Randi Credico with Joe Lauria re Rohrabacher (22 Feb) 01:56:14 Videolink Interview Ray McGovern - the WL-DOJ “2017 deal” (23 Feb 2020) 02:18:18 Gary Webb Award Joe Lauria presents award to Kristinn Hrafnsson (22 Feb)