My blog on Mike Jame’s observations about faith talk in the Bush and Dean campaigns is a segway right back into COS, since out of my reference to the Sojo issue on EMPIRE I see the Next Issue after that is the SPY GAMES issue with the interview with Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst.

The intro to the article:

Ray McGovern came to the CIA in 1964 in the wake of President John Kennedy’s call to “ask what you can do for your country.” For the next 27 years, McGovern did his best to speak the truth, as he saw it, to those in power—including presidents and their national security staffs. David MacMichael also worked for the CIA, investigating Reagan administration claims that Nicaragua was fomenting regional wars. Both men came to the conclusion that ideology and politics, not “truth,” was fueling U.S. foreign policy, in Iraq and elsewhere, and have since been on a mission to bring light to the shady world of spy vs. spy—and encourage their former intelligence colleagues to refuse to remain silent. They were interviewed in July by Sojourners editors Rose Marie Berger and Jim Rice.

Ray is now the co-director of The Servant Leadership School of the Church of the Saviour.

The article includes this bio info on Ray:

Ray was a CIA analyst for 27 years, but his Catholic faith and other life twists have led him to very different work. He is co-director of the Servant Leadership School, an outreach and training ministry located just a few blocks west of our office. He has been outspoken for the past year about the false and faulty intelligence that’s been used to justify the U.S. invasion of Iraq.