The Religious Left Goes Truthing

By Mark Tooley:

Blogging recently for Jim Wallis’s Sojourners, former CIA staffer Ray McGovern described how he was ostensibly roughed up by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s security detail during a recent speech at George Washington University. A few years ago, he had a less violent scofflaw during a Donald Rumsfeld speech. “I wonder if this show of brutality may be a signpost on a path to even wider and more brutal repression,” he darkly suggested for Sojourners. McGovern is with a leftist group called “Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity” and is often aligned with 9/11 conspiracy theorists.

Why Wallis’s Religious Left group, which aspires to be mainstream, would uncritically publish a 9/11 “truther” is unclear. Wallis is a prominent Obama supporter and boasts of access to the White House. In his Sojourners article, McGovern complained his treatment possibly foreshadows an impending “fascist” state in America. Such rhetoric recalls Wallis’s own angry and radical anti-Vietnam War years but not his last decade of more soothing appeals to suburban evangelicals.

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