12/12/14 – Andrew Cockburn – The Scott Horton Show

Andrew Cockburn, author of Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy, discusses the unholy merger of the Israel lobby and the military-industrial complex; how NATO expansion enriches Lockheed; and his article "Game On: East vs. West, again," about the renewing Cold War with Russia.

12/11/14 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show

Eric Margolis, journalist and author of American Raj, discusses the CIA torture report; how we are condoning torture by failing to prosecute those responsible for it; and why the Republican Party is still defending disastrous foreign wars and the Bush administration's crimes.

12/11/14 – Lawrence Wilkerson – The Scott Horton Show

Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, discusses how he helped with Powell's infamous address to the UN in 2003, making the case for war with Iraq; the behind-the-scenes pressure exerted by Bush administration officials to keep the "garbage intel" linking Iraq and al-Qaeda in Powell's speech; and Dick Cheney's effort to hide his criminal behavior behind OLC lawyers and their memos justifying torture.

12/10/14 – Andy Worthington – The Scott Horton Show

Andy Worthington, an investigative journalist, author, and filmmaker, discusses the brutal physical and psychological torture techniques employed by the Bush administration against supposedly high-value al-Qaeda prisoners - many of whom were low-level lackeys at best - in an effort to get false confessions and manufacture a case for war in Iraq.

12/10/14 – Marcy Wheeler – The Scott Horton Show

Blogger Marcy Wheeler discusses the CIA's lies about properly vetting their enhanced interrogation program with their Congressional overseers; Dick Cheney's conspicuous absence from the CIA torture report; and the 9000 CIA documents withheld that likely implicate the Office of Legal Council and Cheney in the torture program.