Ray McGovern on "The Guy James Show" today

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3:30 pm

RAY McGOVERN,
McGovern works with Tell the Word, the publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Savior
in Washington, D.C. He was an Army infantry/intelligence officer in the
early sixties and then a CIA analyst from 1963 to 1990.
McGovern wrote yesterday: "'Swear him in.' That's all I said in the
unusual silence this afternoon as first aid was being administered to
Gen. David Petraeus's microphone at the hearing before the House Armed
Services and Foreign Affairs Committees.
"It had dawned on me that when House Armed Services Committee
Chairman Ike Skelton, D-Missouri, invited Gen. Petraeus to make his
presentation, Skelton forgot to ask him to take the customary oath to
tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. I had no
idea that would be enough to get me thrown out of the hearing.
"I had a flashback to a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in early
2006, when Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, reminded chairman Arlen
Specter, R-Pennsylvania, that Specter had forgotten to swear in the
witness, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales; and how Specter insisted
that that would not be necessary."
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/091007a.html
McGovern also wrote the recent piece "Is Petraeus Today's
Westmoreland?" http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/090707b.html



4:05pm

RICK ROWLEY, [e-mail]
Just back from a month and a half in Iraq, Rowley is a journalist
with Big Noise films. He said today: "When Gen. Petraeus says that he's
merely applauding the new Sunni militia allies from the sidelines, he's
lying. While embedded with the U.S. military, I filmed U.S. commanders
handing wads of cash to tribal militias. And when he says that the U.S.
military is facilitating their integration into Iraq's security forces,
what he means is that the U.S. military is pressuring Iraq's government
to incorporate these militias wholesale into the police forces. In fact,
that's one of the promises that these tribes are given -- that after
working with the Americans for a few months, they'll become Iraqi
police, be armed by the Iraqi state and be put on regular payroll."
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/11/1424208
Rowley co-produced a special report "The Ghost of Anbar" with
journalist David Enders which aired on Al-Jazeera English:
<http://www.bignoisefilms.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=1>;
on YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naJQc6vFlFY>.

[Maat]

1. Thanks!

Bookmarking. These are two of my favorite guests.

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2. kick n/t