{"id":37739,"date":"2021-07-21T09:05:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T17:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=37739"},"modified":"2021-07-21T09:05:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T17:05:51","slug":"ray-mcgovern-put-russiagate-out-of-its-misery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/21\/ray-mcgovern-put-russiagate-out-of-its-misery\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray McGovern: Put Russiagate Out of its Misery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLusyT86b06Su7wjV-LxbfpNYCZkJbar5E\">Talk World Radio<\/a>: Why won\u2019t disproven Russiagate ever go away? Our guest Ray McGovern was an infantry\/intelligence officer in the early Sixties, and became a CIA analyst. His duties eventually included chairing National Intelligence Estimates and preparing The President\u2019s Daily Brief. He conducted the one-on-one morning briefings of President Reagan\u2019s five most senior national security officials, including VP Bush, from 1981 to 1985. In retirement Ray co-founded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) \u2014 an attempt by intelligence veterans to hold former colleagues to account for \u201cfixing\u201d intelligence to \u201cjustify\u201d wars like Iraq. His website is <a href=\"https:\/\/raymcgovern.com\/\">https:\/\/RayMcGovern.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ray\u2019s recent article for Antiwar.com: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/mcgovern\/2021\/07\/15\/the-guardian-regurgitating-the-russia-gate-canard\/\">The Guardian: Regurgitating the Russia-Gate Canard.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wyUTiG-QoUw\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week on Talk World Radio: Why won\u2019t disproven Russiagate ever go away? Our guest Ray McGovern was an infantry\/intelligence officer in the early Sixties, and became a CIA analyst. His duties eventually included chairing National Intelligence Estimates and preparing The President\u2019s Daily Brief. He conducted the one-on-one morning briefings of President Reagan\u2019s five most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-37739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"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\/37739","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\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37739"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37742,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37739\/revisions\/37742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37739"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=37739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}