Liza Goitein, Co-Director of the Brennan Center for Justice's Liberty and National Security Program, discusses her report on "The New Era of Secret Law" in the US, including the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel's secret interpretations of existing laws against torture and the FISA Court's secret authorization of NSA bulk collection of phone records.

James Carden, a contributing writer for The Nation and former advisor on Russia at the US State Department, discusses how the Washington DC foreign policy consensus, locked down by neoconservatives and Wilsonian liberal interventionists, stopped Obama from following through on his campaign pledges to end the Iraq War, broker peace in Israel-Palestine, and improve relations with Russia.

Jeffrey Kaye, a psychologist and writer on torture, discusses the latest developments in the ACLU's lawsuit (on behalf of former Guantanamo detainees) against James Elmer Mitchell and John "Bruce" Jessen, the psychologists who designed the CIA's post-9/11 torture program.

Daniel Lazare, author of The Frozen Republic: How the Constitution is Paralyzing Democracy, discusses Hillary Clinton's bifurcated policy on ISIS, as she proposes fighting the group in Iraq and supporting it in Syria; and why Obama's greatest fear is the Saudi royal family's collapse.

Grant F. Smith, director of research at the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, discusses the longstanding US government policy of feigning ignorance of Israel's nuclear weapons program, why the new $38 billion US pledge to Israel is unconstitutional, and "The Israel Lobby and American Policy" conference scheduled for March 24, 2017 in Washington, DC.

Max Blumenthal, author of Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel, discusses his two-part investigative series on the organizations running a sophisticated PR campaign to win Western public support for Syrian regime-change, and why most of the Left has fallen for it.

Eric Schuler, author of The Daily Face Palm, discusses whether Hillary Clinton's Syria policy is due to stupidity or "something worse;" and how the terrible presidential debates have made libertarian ideas on immigration and foreign policy an appealing alternative to the status quo.

Retired US Army colonel Daniel L. Davis discusses his article "Why the Battle for Mosul Could Become a Total Disaster;" and how US military intervention is paving the way for Al Qaeda/ISIS control of an actual state - not the pseudo state currently held in Iraq.

Jason MacLeod, author of Merdeka and the Morning Star: Civil Resistance in West Papua, discusses the brutal 50-year Indonesian occupation of West Papua; motivated by racial superiority, natural resources and political identity - and helped by US military aid.

Gilbert Doctorow, the European Coordinator of The American Committee for East West Accord, discusses why the US-Russia confrontation in Ukraine and Syria is far more serious than generally understood, and could easily lead to a shooting war - especially if Hillary Clinton is serious about imposing a no fly zone in Syria.

Martha Mundy, a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics and author of Governing Property, Making the Modern State: Law, Administration and Production in Ottoman Syria, discusses how decades of neoliberal/IMF/World Bank economic policy degraded Yemen's agricultural production, making the country especially vulnerable to famine from the Saudi-led blockade and bombing campaign - which are clearly war crimes.

Sandy Tolan, author of Children of the Stone, discusses why the $38 billion US military aid package to Israel marks the end of both Washington's role in an Israel-Palestinian peace process and any hope for a two-state solution.

“Sandra Bland died one year ago Today: And since then, at least 810 people have lost their lives in jail" Ryan Reilly discusses dying in police custody. "Deaths inside American jails frequently go unnoticed, sometimes even unrecorded." Reilly gives all the details to Scott, including the attempt by prison officials across the country to conceal the true numbers of deaths, and how you're far more likely to die in jail if you have any kind of medical condition. All of that and more on today's...

“As Saudis bombed Yemen, US Worried About Legal Blowback”, Jonathan Landay’s new article with Warren Strobel for Reuters, talks about US exposure to the war in Yemen, and the legal risk the US government is taking by supporting the Saudi’s war on Yemen.

Catherine Lutz, from the Cost of War Project at Brown University, talks to Scott about all of the balance of account information from the wars. The jaw dropping total figure of the war is revealed, as well as the human costs of the war, the unquantifiable costs on the home front, and the ongoing and unacknowledged health costs to the troops is all discussed. All of this and more on another great episode of the Scott Horton Show.