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Ray McGovern is the spokesperson for a group of crazies called, amusingly enough, the "Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity," or VIPS for short.

VIPS' initial target was Dick Cheney.

VIPS' had about 25 members early on.

[Others member of VIPS are Larry Johnson and Patrick Eddington, author of a book called "Gassed in the Gulf." Yet another is William Christison, who is a backer of a group called "Urgent Call." Other people associated with Urgent Call are Pol Pot apologist Noam Chomsky, Barbara Kingsolver, Julian Bond, and Jonathan Schell.]

Both VIPS and Ray McGovern had email accounts on the web domain of a group called "counterpunch.org."

Counterpunch.org is run by Alexander Cockburn, a columnist for the leftwing rag "The Nation."

VIPS spokesman Ray McGovern is an associate of former US ambassador Joseph Wilson, who is the husband of the allegedly "outed" CIA employee Valerie Plame.

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Good stuff. Thanks.