OTTOS KANSAS COFFEE BAR

Program Summary Jan. 4, 2016

Hear Rep. Bill Otto and "the Lineball Sisters" discuss during the 2nd hour all manner of Kansas small town life after these news stories.

1st HOUR - Descripton: Retired Sr. CIA analyst Ray McGovern on Sounds of Dissent on WZBC 90.3 FM Boston recorded January 2, 2016.  Did rebels in Syria use sarin gas in 2013, rather than President Assad? Turkish member of parliament Eren Erdem cited evidence on December 10, 2015 that the Turkish government was complicit in delivery of sarin gas to Syrian rebels before the 2013 attack that killed hundreds in Ghouta, Syria.

Over a dozen retired CIA, State Dept., NSA and Army staffers have signed an open memo to Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov asking for the evidence on who used the chemical weapons in Ghouta, Syria on August 21, 2013.

Retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern discusses the memo a group of veteran intelligence professionals wrote about the conflicting claims on whether chemical weapons were used by Syria's President Assad or by rebels fighting him in the bloody civil war that's killed over 200,000.

Ray McGovern's site is http://www.raymcgovern.com/

Ray McGovern served Presidents Nixon, Ford, and Reagan as a writer of the President's Daily Brief, and gave the daily CIA briefing to President Ronald Reagan personally, and to Vice President George H.W. Bush, the former Director of the CIA. McGovern is a member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.

2nd HOUR - Co-hosted during the second hour with Rep. Bill Otto, formerly of the 9th district, in the Kansas legislature listen in to conversations with "Traditional Republicans" who have lived small town life in Kansas across the generations.