Ray McGovern is a graduate of Fordham University where he earned degrees in Russian studies and a commission in the Army as an intelligence officer. He spent 27 years as a CIA analyst, during which time he chaired various National Intelligence Estimates and, for a number of years, prepared the President’s Daily Brief. McGovern is a founding member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, a group of 45 former intelligence-community members formed in January 2003, after it had become clear that intelligence analysis was being corrupted by political pressure to “justify” an unprovoked attack on Iraq. He now works at Tell the Word, the publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Savior in Washington, D.C.