As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave her speech at George Washington University condemning governments that arrest protestors, 71-year-old Ray McGovern was grabbed from the audience in plain view of her by police, brutalized and left bleeding in jail.

In less than a week after we cheered the outbreak of democracy in Egypt, we witnessed the spectacle of retired CIA analyst and Veteran for Peace Ray McGovern being dragged out of Hillary Clinton's press conference yesterday for a silent, peaceful protest.