Ray McGovern
Ray McGovern spent 27 years as a CIA analyst, chairing National Intelligence Estimates and, from 1981 to 1985, delivering the President's Daily Brief one-on-one to senior Reagan administration officials, including Vice President George H. W. Bush. In 2003 he co-founded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), the group of former intelligence officers that challenged the Iraq WMD case, and he has since been one of the most persistent critics of US intelligence being bent to policy. He appears regularly on Dialogue Works, Judging Freedom and similar independent programs, reading Washington, Moscow and Tel Aviv from the perspective of a career analyst.
Where they stand
A short read of where Ray McGovern lands on each front we follow, drawn from their recent appearances and refreshed whenever they turn up in a debrief.