Ray McGovern: Greatest Hits.

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If you don't know who McGovern is, this article at Mother Jones is a good intro.



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“I don’t call them neo-conservatives," he says, "because I’m conservative. I call them neo-fascists, because that’s what they are. And what these neo-fascists did was see 911 as a golden opportunity.”

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"Who needs context? Better to let them talk about how many terrorists they can kill than the conditions that breed terrorism. Let them continue to use the paradigm of combating malaria: Surely it's easier to try to shoot down the mosquitoes as they leave the swamp than to drain the swamp."

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"Indeed, Tenet says what Rumsfeld. . . and Cheney say. Tenet is the quintessential "team player," an attribute antithetical to his statutory duty to tell the emperor when he had no clothes on. Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, like Cheney a frequent visitor to CIA Headquarters, recently told the press, "George Tenet is so grateful to the president that he will do anything for him."

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"The intelligence process is a bit like virginity," says Ray McGovern, who worked as a CIA analyst for 27 years. "Once you prostitute it, it's never the same."

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"Nothing to preempt also means that the U.S./UK attack on Iraq last March falls into the category of "preventive war" explicitly condemned by international law. Which also means that the British Prime Minister Tony Blair's political career is probably finished, as is the political future of other gullible leaders of the "coalition of the willing"—in Australia, for example, and in even in Denmark."

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