During my daily pre-dawn surf across cyberspace in looking for some wave-making links for readers I sometimes get leads from readers who email me. Some of the mailed leads are an absolute waste of time taking me to some far-off horizon of vast conspiracy, "right" or "left" wing (take your pick), that are both ineffectual and incredible.
Why take you, the readers, to places where no fact can be nailed down; where second, third or umpteenth level of hearsay is in the main, considered as a hard fact?
However there are others which must be taken as serious, about real people whispering corruptions of the empire into some very powerful ears and that always, every time, makes for a chilling early morning read.
So my jaunt this early morning was interrupted by a very chilling email from Mr. Ray McGovern, a former guest on Radio Free Kansas, who retired as a Senior CIA analyst that chaired National Intelligence Estimates and prepared the President's Daily Brief for several White House administrations.
Do you want to see a portion of what he wrote me? See below, and read it carefully with all due deliberation, because he has "been there, done that" when it comes to analyzing hard and fast facts.
[edited excerpt of correspondence] ... You may have noticed that the chair of the House Intelligence Committee has called for McConnell and Hayden to keep their posts and … thinks something like torture-lite might be just what this country needs.
Sylvestre Reyes' remarks betoken the proverbial fox-in-chicken-coup approach.
It is my view that every senior official associated with intelligence abuses—torture, and such; manufacturing evidence and cooking intelligence also—should be retrained for cataloguing old books in intelligence libraries.
This is key. What kind of message would Obama send, were he to keep on those overseeing torture, rendition, "fixed" intelligence. Reyes' comments have not gotten much ink, air, or ether yet. They are important, though, and I posted this one on Consortiumnews.com late yesterday. ... I would be pleased if you would provide your readers/listeners with a chance to read it. This could also enhance chances that someone, anyone, close to the president-elect might see it, on chance some of them are lurking in northeast Kansas. ... [end of edited excerpt]
Did you get that lurkers? If you eyeballed my note thus far, then you must follow through and take a careful look because the article is posted at Robert Parry's important Consortium News, one of the few sites where independent investigative journalism regularly carries the day and it is located here.
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