Ray McGovern on George Tenet and intelligence cover up [View All]

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“I saw it in Vietnam,” he says. “And usually it was the President himself or the White House that was responsible in the final analysis. Think Gulf of Tonkin.”

McGovern is referring to the non-event that became the rationale for the escalation of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

“We knew that there was no incident that night," McGovern says. "McGeorge Bundy knew that there was no incident that night. And yet LBJ with his towering presence, his total power — corrupting totally — leaned over and said ‘McGeorge, are you going up to the hill to sell this resolution?’ Bundy admitted on McNeil Lehrer Newshour, one painful show: ‘So, I went. I went up and I lied to Congress.’

“So, it’s happened before. What’s different this time is that we have a situation where, over a two-year period, an incredibly clever orchestrated campaign was waged to exploit the trauma of the American people — the trauma of 911. To exploit it in such a way as to achieve the aims of the…“





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