{"id":70989,"date":"2016-03-21T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=70989"},"modified":"2016-03-21T11:09:16","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T11:09:16","slug":"interview-with-former-cia-analyst-ray-mcgovern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/03\/interview-with-former-cia-analyst-ray-mcgovern\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mar 7, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ray McGovern talks about his experience in the agency and the reasons that led him to become an activist and outspoken critic of the US government.\u00a0 The interview surfaces a number of issues that include: &#8220;Enhanced interrogation techniques&#8221; a euphemism for the U.S. government&#8217;s program of systematic torture, the role that European governments played in supporting this program, Edward Snowden &amp; the NSA, the significance of activism today, etc.<\/p>\n<p>What is the role of activism in all of this and what consequences will the European and U.S. populations face if they fail to organize and mobilize for change?<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DbnWxeI_tvY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mar 7, 2016 &#8211; Ray McGovern talks about his experience in the agency and the reasons that led him to become an activist and outspoken critic of the US government.  The interview surfaces a number of issues that include: &#8220;Enhanced interrogation techniques&#8221; a euphemism for the U.S. government&#8217;s program of systematic torture, the role that European governments played in supporting this program, Edward Snowden &#038; the NSA, the significance of activism today, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}