Sibel Edmonds Interview.

by | Apr 24, 2009 |

From electricpolitics.com via Luke Rylands blog. Connect the dots. According to the UN's latest report, under U.S. occupation 92% of the world's opium production comes from Afghan poppies. Most of the heroin going to Europe is manufactured in or transits Turkey. The exact value to Turkey of its heroin exports is unknown but experts estimate a range in the tens of billions of dollars per year. The neocons helped establish and remain closely associated with Turkish lobbying efforts in the U.S....

04/24/09 – Ray McGovern – The Scott Horton Show

by | Apr 24, 2009 |

Ray McGovern, former senior analyst at the CIA, discusses the emotional aversion CIA agents developed for their own torture tactics, the moral bankruptcy of torture apologists, the barriers to an effective Senate Intelligence Committee torture investigation and the reemergence of long time cover-up artist Warren Rudman.

04/24/09 – Doug Bandow – The Scott Horton Show

by | Apr 24, 2009 |

Doug Bandow, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, discusses the very minimal threat North Korea poses to the U.S., how South Korea is more than capable of defending itself against the North, the troubled history of the U.S./N. Korea Framework Agreement and the horrible Law of the Sea Treaty.

04/23/09 – Philip Giraldi – The Scott Horton Show

by | Apr 23, 2009 |

Philip Giraldi, contributing editor at The American Conservative magazine and regular contributor to Antiwar.com, discusses the confirmed existence of an incriminating Jane Harman wiretapped conversation, the appearance that Harman is effectively an asset of a covert Israeli intelligence operation, the perception among some U.S. politicians that the road to higher office runs through AIPAC and the increasingly apparent near-total corruption in U.S. government.

Source: Wiretap Caught Harman Discussing Pelosi Fundraising Flap

by | Apr 22, 2009 |

By Jeff Stein CQ Politics April 22, 2009 California Democrat Jane Harman, battling a controversy over her interactions with a suspected Israeli spy, was overheard on a 2005 wiretap discussing a failed fundraising ploy designed to get her named chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, according to a former national security official who has read the transcript. Harman was heard lamenting to the suspected Israeli agent how the tactics of a major Jewish fundraiser to use the threat of...

Cheney/Rumsfeld Demanded Interrogators Coerce Evidence Of Al Qeada/Saddam links Out Of Detainees.

by | Apr 22, 2009 |

Not that it comes as a surprise to anyone, but McClatchy has a article today that reports on Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld's demands for interrogators to coerce evidence of ties between Al Qeada and Saddam Hussein. from McClatchy Former Vice President Dick Cheney and others who advocated the use of sleep deprivation, isolation and stress positions and waterboarding, which simulates drowning, insist that they were legal. A former senior U.S. intelligence official familiar with the...

04/22/09 – Rep. Ron Paul – The Scott Horton Show

by | Apr 22, 2009 |

Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) discusses the lack of change in Afghanistan and Iraq policy despite the Obama administration's rhetoric, how a single high U.S.-casualty incident abroad could garner the support of Americans for more military intervention, the unwillingness of Democrats or Republicans to cut the Pentagon's budget, the expansive new powers over the economy being exercised by the government and why he favors the prosecution of the previous administration for war crimes.

04/22/09 – Jesse Walker – The Scott Horton Show

by | Apr 22, 2009 |

Jesse Walker, managing editor of Reason magazine, discusses the problem of Somalia-based piracy, the impracticality of a military defense against quick-attack pirates along a 2000 mile coastline, the disastrous history of international aid endeavors in Somalia and how market forces may prompt shippers to use alternate routes or private armed security.