Cooking Up a Storm An Interview with Former CIA Official Ray McGovern, By Steven Robert Allen,
alibi . november 27 – december 3, 2003

Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern–co-founder of the group Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), which seeks to heighten public awareness about the administration’s more blatant intelligence abuses–has been as vocal as anyone.

Right-wing Radicals

McGovern currently believes that the country is in the hands of right-wing radicals whose judgment has become clouded by their extremist geopolitical ideologies. According to McGovern, this has created a very dangerous situation for our nation.

”These guys were known in the ’80s, when I briefed the President’s father every morning, as The Crazies.’ If you referred to ‘The Crazies,’ everyone knew who you meant. So for us to watch these guys come back into power just a couple years ago is frightening. And this time, they’re not down in the bowels of the Pentagon, they’re running the country! Our worst fears were well-founded.” …

”I’ve been in this town watching things really, really closely for decades and never have I seen our country at such a perilous stage. And never have I been so frustrated by the American people’s lack of knowledge that this is the case, that their current government is a very dangerous one.”