The Ripple Effect Podcast #106 (Ray McGovern)

The Ripple Effect Podcast

Ricky Varandas

Bryan, Carlin, Bill, Society & Culture, 6, Philosophy, Dave, Callen

4.6 • 603 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2016

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Ray McGovern, who came from his native Bronx to Washington in the early Sixties as an Army infantry/intelligence officer and then served as a CIA analyst for 27 years, from the administration of John F. Kennedy to that of George H. W. Bush. Ray’s duties included chairing National Intelligence Estimates and preparing the President’s Daily Brief, which he briefed one-on-one to President Ronald Reagan’s five most senior national security advisers from 1981 to 1985. Ray returns to the show to talk about Hillary Email leaks, WikiLeaks, the election, Obama, Syria, Benghazi, NSA and much more.

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0:00.0	believe in the ripple fact
0:25.6	The ripple fact I'm a I probably
1:12.6	say that quite often, but today we really do. We have Ray McGovern. He's ex-CIA officer who did
1:18.8	the presidential daily briefings for years. So he dealt with a lot of presidents, worked right in the
1:24.1	White House. He's been on the show before. So if you want to hear his background and his story,
1:28.7	listen to the last episode that he was on,
1:31.4	you can just search for Ray McGovern, the Ripleffect podcast.
1:34.7	You can do it on Google,
1:35.8	and you can find it on iTunes or on YouTube or wherever it is.
1:40.9	And he's just a really smart interesting wise person and guests to have on especially in
1:50.4	times like these where there's so much going on and and getting and he keeps up with the news so
1:54.5	a lot of times you know the average listener i'm sure is similar like myself who gets very busy
2:00.6	and then it's hard to keep up
2:01.6	with every single story.
2:02.4	There's so much going on.
2:04.0	And he keeps up with the news, so it's always nice to kind of get his opinion on what's
2:07.9	going on and see if possibly get the actual facts from him on some of the stuff that you
2:14.6	read on the news.
2:15.6	So I won't make this intro too long.
2:18.1	It's an awesome conversation.
2:19.8	Like I said, Ray's a really interesting guy.
2:21.9	I hope you guys really appreciate this conversation.
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