Not sure how reliable this ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern is. He seems like a bit of a weirdo, honestly. But
these are some eye-opening quotes nonetheless.
Which leads to the question, why would he do all these things? Why would
he (Obama) be afraid for example, to take the drones away from the CIA? Well,
I’ve come to the conclusion that he’s afraid. Number one, he’s afraid of
what happened to Martin Luther King Jr. And I know from a good friend
who was there when it happened, that at a small dinner with progressive
supporters – after these progressive supporters were banging on Obama
before the election, "Why don’t you do the things we thought you stood
for?" Obama turned sharply and said, "Don’t you remember what happened
to Martin Luther King Jr.?" That’s a quote, and that’s a very revealing
quote.
I'll just restate my skepticism about "I know from a good friend who was there..." but, even if we grant that the quote has at least a 50% chance of being made up, it still reflects some compelling analysis from a source with a fair amount of standing.
The other thing is, I’ve always been kind of shocked that when he came
into office, not only did he not prosecute the torturers, the kidnapers,
the people with the black [unintelligible], even the people who
violated our Fourth Amendment rights, but he left them all in place. I
suspected at the time, now I’m pretty convinced the president of the
United States is afraid of the CIA. That’s why he got John Brennan in
place. He thinks John Brennan owes more personal loyalty to him than all
those other thugs out there who did the torture and so forth. That’s a
questionable thing. But Obama thinks that. And that’s why he fought so
hard so that Brennan would be in place.
The "afraid of CIA" stuff is a bit on the conspiracy side of the fence. But you don't have to actually buy it to understand that the President has been enough of a "wimp" (McGovern's term) where it regards the totalitarian tendency of the U.S. security state to engender this kind of speculation.
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