In this week's episode of “Playing President,” Ray McGovern, 27-year CIA veteran and briefer of five presidents, continues to make sense of the world to “President” Scheer, who prepared for this role through his decades as a journalist, including in-depth interviews with five presidents from Nixon to Clinton. This week, McGovern briefs the president on the recent release of Julian Assange, who spent the last thirteen years in prison/detainment, first in the Ecuadorian Embassy followed by five years in Belmarsh prison. While McGovern accurately describes Julian's place as an “example“ of what happens to truth tellers in society, President Scheer can't quite grasp the concept...
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