Media Mouse has posted Jeff Smith's June column for Recoil Magazine, "My 24 hours with an ex-CIA Analyst" http://www.mediamouse.org/commentary/060106my_24.php in which Smith discusses Ray McGovern's visit to Grand Rapids last month:

Little did we know that when we booked Ray McGovern to speak in March that he would make such a roar the week before coming to Grand Rapids. This is a promoter's wet dream and it paid off well for us. Ray was a guest presenter in the Community Media Center's Media & Democracy lecture series. For weeks we had been promoting the event and trying to get the local news interested in covering his visit, not only because he has an important message, but also because he had targeted Rep. Pete Hoekstra from Holland, who is the head of the House Intelligence Committee. In March, McGovern, in an attempt to draw attention to the appalling record of torture committee by the US military in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, went to Hoekstra's DC office in an orange jump suit and returned his CIA medal. You'd think that might be reason enough to get the media's attention for his impending visit, but no. It wasn't until the Atlanta incident that eyes would open. We invited Hoekstra to debate Ray, but his DC staffer told me that "we wouldn't want to submit the representative to that sort of environment."

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