03/24/11 – James Ridgeway – The Scott Horton Show

James Ridgeway, Senior Washington Correspondent for Mother Jones, discusses the general detainment conditions in US prisons, in light of Bradley Manning’s mistreatment; the “Angola 3” prisoners held in solitary confinement for almost four decades; the forgotten Eighth Amendment to the Constitution; using solitary confinement as a baseline condition, rather than a temporary punitive measure; why prison culture is indicative of extreme American ignorance or just barbarism; and the few...

04/19/10 – James Ridgeway – The Scott Horton Show

James Ridgeway, Senior Washington Correspondent for Mother Jones, discusses his 2007 article 'In Search of John Doe No. 2: The Story the Feds Never Told About the Oklahoma City Bombing,' the neo-Nazi movement’s 1983 plot to blow up the Murrah Federal Building, frivolous criminal charges made against ATF agent Carol Howe that prevented her from testifying for the defense at McVeigh’s trial, how the OKC bombing continues to be used as a political club against anti-government groups and how the...

08/03/07 – James Ridgeway – The Scott Horton Show

James Ridgeway, DC bureau chief for Mother Jones magazine, discusses his new article, 'In Search of John Doe No. 2: The Story the Feds Never Told About the Oklahoma City Bombing;' the ordeal of Utah attorney Jesse Trentadue and his brother Kenneth, who was tortured and murdered by government agents in his Oklahoma prison cell in a case of mistaken identity — they thought he was Richard Guthrie (likely one of the many neo-Nazi 'John Does' involved in the Oklahoma City bombing), the Treasury and...