Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern sues State Dept. for Putting Him on Watch List:

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Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern sues State Dept. for Putting Him on Watch List: Lawsuit Challenges Brutal Arrest at Clinton speech
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/former-cia-analyst-ray-mcgovern-sues-state-dept-putting-him-watch-list-lawsuit-challenges-brutal-arrest-clinton-speech

The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on behalf of U.S. military veteran and former CIA analyst Ray McGovern against John Kerry, in his capacity as the Secretary of State, and against officers at George Washington University.

The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia three years to the date of Mr. McGovern's brutal and false arrest at GWU during a speech of then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Since arrest, the PCJF has uncovered that the Department of State issued a Be On The Lookout Alert ('BOLO Alert') for Mr. McGovern which described his “considerable amount of political activism, primarily anti-war,” displayed his picture and directed law enforcement that if the then-71-year-old Mr. McGovern was encountered, “USE CAUTION, stop” and question him and contact the Department of State Diplomatic Security Command Center.

The circumstances of McGovern's 2011 arrest were marked by stinging irony. Mr. McGovern was brutalized and arrested after peacefully and silently standing with his back to Hillary Clinton as she gave a policy speech condemning authoritarian governments who repress dissenters and internet freedom.

As Secretary Clinton was reading from her prepared remarks regarding Egypt’s dictatorship saying, “Then the government pulled the plug,” Mr. McGovern was forcibly and falsely arrested by GWU police officers, grabbed by the head and assaulted directly in front of her.


http://www.justiceonline.org/our-work/ray-mcgovern.html

http://www.justiceonline.org/docs/civil-complaint-mcgovern-vs.pdf

[Octafish]

1. Ray McGovern certainly let Donald Rumsfeld have it.

[KoKo]

2. He needs to stand up to this kind of behavior along with the reporters and

whistleblowers who are being watched and put on lists.

Newest revelations of NSA documents show how we are back in the McCarthy/Nixon/J. Edgar Hoover times..

[Luminous Animal]

3. Kick

[KoKo]

4. RECOMMEND!

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[struggle4progress]

5. He was arrested in 2011 by George Washington University police for disrupting an event

on the George Washington campus

[mainer]

6. McGovern told me that weapons expert David Kelly was an MI5 assassination

I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to talk to him a few years ago, and I asked specifically about Kelly's death. He said he had no doubt Kelly's "suicide" was murder. A truly courageous man.