Ex-CIA officer blasts premise for Iraq war

[seemslikeadream]

By MIGLENA STERNADORI of the Tribune’s staff
Published Saturday, October 16, 2004
A Central Intelligence Agency veteran is traveling the country on a mission to explain what he calls "prostituted intelligence" crafted at the request of the Bush administration to induce Congress into approving the war in Iraq.

Ray McGovern, 65, who served under seven presidents and retired in 1990 as a CIA senior analyst, spoke to University of Missouri-Columbia students.

"I am here because of dangerous signs that the intelligence process is corrupted," McGovern told a foreign policy class yesterday.

A soft-spoken connoisseur of Russian poetry, McGovern resembles an art professor. People often tell him he doesn’t look like a spy. Yet he prepared daily CIA briefings for the president and oversaw work on the so-called national intelligence estimates.

McGovern describes himself as a conservative but is a harsh critic of the Bush administration.

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http://www.columbiatribune.com/2004/Oct/20041016News001.asp

[maryallen]

1. A true patriot ...

Thank you, Mr. McGovern.

[Eloriel]

4. Ture Patriot, True Hero

A brave and principled man.

[saracat]

2. How many more have to say it before this country wakes up???

[emad]

3. "intelligence process is corrupted"

Wish they'd put super sleuth Elliot Spitzer on the case, he seems to be getting some great results:


"Corruption probe hits US insurers":

US insurers are in the spotlight after New York attorney general Elliot Spitzer sued Marsh & McLennan, the world's largest insurance broker.

Mr Spitzer claims that since the late 1990s, Marsh got illegal payments for steering clients to firms such as Ace and American International Group (AIG).

The other firms named in Mr Spitzer's investigation include Hartford Financial Services Group, Chubb Corp and an arm of Germany's Munich Re.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3745334.stm