Is the Nunes memo, which speaks of the politicization of the FBI in the service of opposing the election of Donald Trump, really a “nothingburger,” or is there something there? Ray McGovern, no Trump partisan, has been blacklisted by much of the progressive media (which once loved him) because he won’t go alone with the Russiagate story, and he sharply dissents about the significance of the memo as well.
About the Guest
Ray McGovern was a CIA analyst from 1963 to 1990. During the 1980s he chaired National Intelligence Estimates and prepared the President’s Daily Brief. He received the Intelligence Commendation Medal at his retirement, but returned it in 2006 in protest at the CIA’s involvement in torture. He co-founded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity in 2003.
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