RAY MCGOVERN TO FAYETTEVILLE APRIL 4

RAY MCGOVERN MARCH/APRIL, 2014, SPEAKING TOUR OF MISSOURI AND ARKANSAS

Jeff Stack, general coodinator

jstack@formissouri.org.

MCGOVERN TO FAYETTEVILLE

NEWS RELEASE

March 10, 2014

Contact:  Dick Bennett, 442-4600, jbennet@uark.edu

It's a Crime to Tell the Truth: Iran, Torture, Bill of Rights, and Visiting Snowden in Russia

Lecture by Former CIA Analyst, Ray McGovern

Friday, April 4, 7:30

Giffels Auditorium, Old Main, Uof A

Sponsored by OMNIUA Student Organization.

Plentiful FREE PARKING on Arkansas Ave. metered spaces, yellow faculty  and green student spaces in UA lots, and parking garage next to Student Union.

McGovern received the CIA Intelligence Commendation Medal, returning the award on moral grounds. He helped form Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity and the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (named after McGovern’s colleague at the CIA). McGovern and several other former intelligence officials went to Russia in October to honor Edward Snowden with the Sam Adams Award.

Mr. McGovern will draw on his 27 years as a CIA intelligence analyst, his advocacy for integrity in intelligence work, and his visit with Edward Snowden in Russia last fall to comment on what this means for the security and civil liberties challenges facing Americans today.

Is our 4^th Amendment right to be “secure ... against unreasonable searches and seizures” lying in the debris of 9/11?  This question was already troubling National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, when National Intelligence Director James Clapper testified to Congress (March 12, 2013) that the NSA was not collecting “any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans.” Believing that Americans are entitled to the truth, Snowden released classified NSA documents revealing NSA’s bulk collection programs.  On July 2, 2013, Mr. Clapper formally apologized to Congress for his March 12 testimony, admitting it was “clearly erroneous.”