Former CIA analyst says evidence abounds for impeachment

Foster's Daily Democrat (New Hampshire),

By GRETYL MACALASTER

Article Date: Friday, December 21, 2007

Veteran CIA analyst and daily presidential briefer Ray McGovern discusses "Inside INTELLIGENCE: Behind the headlines on the Iran 'Threat', our Constitutional Crisis, Prisoner Treatment and September 11th" Monday night at the Portsmouth Public Library. (Aaron Leclerc/Staff photographer)

PORTSMOUTH — The evidence for impeachment of the president and vice president is overwhelming, former CIA analyst and daily presidential briefer Ray McGovern told a room full of people at the Portsmouth Public Library Monday night.

McGovern, who provided daily briefings for former presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush as well as other high ranking officials during his 27 year CIA career, said he has witnessed a "prostitution of his profession" as the Bush administration lied to the American people about the evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

"Don't let anyone tell you the President was deceived by false intelligence ... they knew," McGovern said.

For the next 40 minutes, he relayed a series of events leading up to 9/11 which illustrate the President's desire to go to war with Iraq well before 9-11, that reliable CIA evidence showed that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction and was presented to the administration and the "facts were fixed" in order to legitimize the invasion.

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