Ep. 1087 The Truth About the FISA Memo, With ex-CIA Analyst Ray McGovern
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2018
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 187. |
| 0:03.5 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.1 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
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| 0:28.8 | Paths to Income.com. Hi, everybody, Tom Woods here. Ray McGovern is with us once again. Today, |
| 0:36.4 | I'm having him on to talk about this memo that was released, |
| 0:39.5 | this Devin Nunes memo, he's the Republican from California, that lays out the case that the FBI |
| 0:46.0 | has been engaged in political activity in trying to interfere with the election of Donald Trump, |
| 0:53.8 | and there's a lot of talk in there about |
| 0:55.9 | Christopher Steele and the Russian dossier and so much more. So we're going to talk about what this all |
| 1:02.2 | means. Is it a nothing burger, as some people have said, or is there something here? And if so, |
| 1:08.5 | what is it? So plenty to talk about. And Ray is an excellent person to talk to about it. |
| 1:14.6 | Ray McGovern, I do want to give a bit of his background because I want you to appreciate the |
| 1:18.9 | significance of this guy. |
| 1:20.6 | As I say, I've had him on once before. |
| 1:22.8 | Well, he's a CIA analyst from 1963 to 1990. |
| 1:26.9 | And in the 1980s, he chaired national intelligence estimates |
| 1:30.4 | and prepared the president's daily brief. He was responsible for the analysis of Soviet policy |
| 1:35.5 | in Vietnam. Upon his retirement, he received the Intelligence Commendation Medal, but he |
| 1:42.0 | returned it in 2006 to protest the CIA's involvement in torture. |
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