[GPSCC-chat] Fw: After Brutal Arrest, Ex-CIA Analyst Ray McGovern Sues State Dept. for Putting Him on Watch List

[John Thielking]

Here is the clickable version of that link, for those of you who don't copy/paste into a toolbar or highlight and right click:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8R8c7j4UgU&feature=c4-overview&list=UUCU5Ac7Vd7cqPk074nnKSTw 

John Thielking




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Here's a one-minute video on Ray's arrest.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8R8c7j4UgU&feature=c4-overview&list=UUCU5Ac7Vd7cqPk074nnKSTw



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Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:08:02 -0800
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Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: After Brutal Arrest,	Ex-CIA Analyst Ray McGovern Sues State Dept. for Putting Him on	Watch List




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From: Partnership for Civil Justice Fund <no-reply at justiceonline.org>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 10:31 AM
Subject: After Brutal Arrest, Ex-CIA Analyst Ray McGovern Sues State Dept. for Putting Him on Watch List
 

Partnership for Civil Justice
 

 
     
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Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern sues 
State Dept. for Putting Him on Watch List:
Lawsuit Challenges Brutal Arrest at Clinton speech  
For anti-war beliefs, State Dept. instructed agents to stop and question McGovern on sight
 

Download and Read State Dept. Notice to "Be On the Look-Out" (BOLO) for Ray McGovern
From the Complaint:
"The 
Department of State issued a Be On The Lookout Alert ('BOLO Alert') for 
the then- 71-year-old McGOVERN which described his 'considerable amount 
of political activism, primarily anti-war,' displayed his picture and 
directed law enforcement that if Mr. McGOVERN was encountered, 'USE 
CAUTION, stop' and question him and contact the Department of State 
Diplomatic Security Command Center." 
The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund has 
filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on behalf of U.S. military veteran 
and former CIA analyst Ray McGovern against John Kerry, in his capacity 
as the Secretary of State, and against officers at George Washington 
University. 
The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia three years to the date of Mr. McGovern's 
brutal and false arrest at GWU during a speech of then Secretary of 
State Hillary Clinton. After the arrest, the PCJF uncovered that then 
71-year-old McGovern was put on a "Be On the Look-Out" list, and agents 
were instructed to stop and question him on sight. The reasons cited 
included his "political activism, primarily anti-war" — a clearly 
unconstitutional order.
Circumstances of arrest
The circumstances of McGovern's 2011 arrest 
were marked by stinging irony. McGovern was brutalized and arrested 
after peacefully and silently standing with his back to Hillary Clinton as she gave a policy speech condemning authoritarian governments who repress dissenters and internet freedom. 
As described in the Civil Complaint: "As 
Secretary Clinton was reading from her prepared remarks regarding 
Egypt’s dictatorship saying, 'Then the government pulled the plug,' the 
then-71-year-old McGovern was forcibly and falsely arrested by GWU 
police officers, grabbed by the head, assaulted, and as Secretary 
Clinton continued undisturbed stating, 'the government ... did not want 
the world to watch,' Mr. McGovern was removed from public view with 
excessive and brutal force, taken to jail, and left bleeding with 
bruises and contusions."
Political targeting
The complaint continues: "The Department of 
State then opened an investigation into Plaintiff McGovern, including 
specifically his lawful, protected political beliefs, activities, 
statements and associations which it kept open for nearly seven months, 
despite all charges having been dropped against Mr. McGovern and despite having determined that Mr. McGovern was engaged in no criminal 
activity."
As the complaint states: "The Department of 
State issued a Be On The Lookout Alert ('BOLO Alert') for the then- 
71-year-old McGOVERN which described his 'considerable amount of 
political activism, primarily anti-war,' displayed his picture and 
directed law enforcement that if Mr. McGOVERN was encountered, 'USE 
CAUTION, stop' and question him and contact the Department of State 
Diplomatic Security Command Center."
PCJF Executive Director Mara Verheyden-Hilliard stated: "Mr. McGovern's brutal arrest and his subsequent political targeting by the State Department stands in sharp contrast to the policy 
announcement that Secretary Clinton was delivering, which insisted that 
governments respect dissent and dissenters and their freedom of speech."
Carl Messineo, Legal Director of the PCJF, explained, "Mr. McGovern is a veteran who committed no crime. Yet the State 
Department carried out a purely political investigation of him and put 
him on the BOLO list in clear violation of his Fourth and First 
Amendment protections."
Mr. McGovern, 74, is a veteran Army 
officer who also served as an analyst with the Central Intelligence 
Agency for 27 years. Mr. McGovern wrote for the President’s daily brief 
under Presidents Nixon and Ford. From 1981 to 1985, he personally 
briefed this publication in the morning one-on-one to Vice President 
George H. W. Bush, the Secretaries of State and Defense, and other 
senior officials of the administration of Ronald Reagan.
Upon retirement in early 1990, Mr. 
McGovern was awarded the Intelligence Commendation Award for his 
particularly commendable service and received a laudatory farewell 
letter from then-President George H. W. Bush.
Thirteen years later, Mr. McGovern 
co-founded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity to expose that 
intelligence was being falsified by the U.S. government to justify war 
on Iraq.
Click here to read the complaint and see photos.
We need your help! PCJF attorneys represent Ray McGovern pro bono. Please make an urgently needed tax-deductible contribution to help cover the legal costs of this critical battle in defense of freedom, dissent and constitutional rights.

     
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