FBI, Congress: Sibel Edmonds case ‘unclassified’

Former FBI translator and whistleblower Sibel Edmonds is the most gagged woman in US history. Attorney General John Ashcroft twice invoked the rarely used States Secrets Privilege in her case under the guise of classified secrets and protecting national security. In a recent speech, Sibel again emphasized that the reason that she has been gagged is not for reasons of national security, but rather to cover-up criminality, treason, by high level US officials. As evidence for this claim, Sibel...

John DerbyShire on Ron Paul in the National Review

"With the positions he has, it’s easy to see why he’s not ahead with the media or the polls, but why isn’t he leading the pack among conservatives? "I doubt it’s his anti-war stand. Outside a dwindling band of administration loyalists in the wagons circled around George W. Bush, I can’t detect much enthusiasm for the Iraq war among conservative commentators and e-mailers. ‘We gave the Iraqis a fair shot, now let’s leave them to it and concentrate on chasing down worldwide terrorism,’ is the...

The Show

for today: Andy Worthington, The Plot to Seize the White House. Listen live here from 11am to 1pm Central. Update: David Beito writes: "Been listing to the FDR plot stuff. My sense is that it was much ado about little but could be wrong. The show was not very objective or fair and related a lot of suppositions and guilt by association. "Interestingly, it is now KGB files now completely confirm that Rep. Samuel Dickstein, the chair of the committee that investigated the alleged plot, was a...

Speed up the Internet: Use OpenDNS

Yesterday, I switched my network away from using the DNS servers provided by my ISP, and started using OpenDNS instead. It doubled the speed of my web browsing. DNS servers translate the domain you're trying to go to into an IP address. Humans tend to think in terms of names, while computers are based on numbers. If you type "yahoo.com" into your browser, a DNS server has to take that request and turn it into a number (in this case 66.94.234.13), so it can be reached on the web. Your internet...

The Show

for today:News, Bill Barnwell re-run, Max Blumenthal. Listen live here from 11am-1pm Texas time. 92.7 FM in Austin. MP3 here.