{"id":2756,"date":"2006-05-10T02:56:59","date_gmt":"2006-05-10T09:56:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-05-10T02:56:59","modified_gmt":"2006-05-10T09:56:59","slug":"ray-mcgovern-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/10\/ray-mcgovern-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray McGovern Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday afternoon I spoke with former CIA analyst and founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/vips02082003.html\">Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ray_McGovern\">Ray McGovern<\/a>, about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/mcgovern\/?articleid=8959\">his confrontation<\/a> last Thursday with &#8220;Defense&#8221; Secretary Donald Rumsfeld about his <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/national\/269394_rumsfeld08.html?source=mypi\">lying us into war<\/a> with Iraq, Lt. Gen. Hayden&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2006\/0508\/dailyUpdate.html\">appointment<\/a> to run the CIA, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/fact\/content\/?050124fa_fact\">the fight<\/a> between the CIA and Pentagon over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/article.pl?sid=06\/04\/17\/143241\">covert operations<\/a>, the likelihood of war with Iran and why government employees ought to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20060504\/wl_mideast_afp\/iraqusciaattacks\">rat<\/a> on their bosses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/weekendinterviewshow.com\/audio\/mcgovern2.mp3\">Download mp3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/weekendinterviewshow.com\/audio\/mcgovern.mp3\">Last year&#8217;s interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday afternoon I spoke with former CIA analyst and founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, Ray McGovern, about his confrontation last Thursday with &#8220;Defense&#8221; Secretary Donald Rumsfeld about his lying us into war with Iraq, Lt. Gen. Hayden&#8217;s appointment to run the CIA, the fight between the CIA and Pentagon over covert operations, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2756"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}