Mike Maharrey, the Communications Director for the Tenth Amendment Center, discusses the 200 state bills seeking to block or limit federal power, ranging from laws bypassing the FDA to allow terminal patients access to experimental drugs and treatments, to laws addressing Second Amendment and militarized police issues.

Kelly Riddell, an investigative reporter for The Washington Times, discusses the secret tapes revealing that top Pentagon officials and a senior Democrat in Congress opened their own diplomatic channels with Moammar Gadhafi to stop Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from lying us into war with Libya in 2011.

Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst and co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), discusses his possible imprisonment for criminal trespass and resisting arrest (for using a paid ticket to see David Petraeus speak at a New York YMCA); and the neocons trying to provoke a military confrontation with Russia by supplying US armaments to Ukraine.

Kade Crockford, Director of the ACLU of Massachusetts' Technology for Liberty Project, discusses the government's secret surveillance programs going back to the 1990s, from vehicle license plate tracking to wholesale collection of telephone metadata.

Trevor Timm, a columnist and executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, discusses his article "Barrett Brown's sentence is unjust, but it may become the norm for journalists;" and how Obama's proposed expansion of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act would make it even easier to jail journalists.

Katherine Hawkins, the National Security Fellow at OpenTheGovernment.org, discusses the lies hidden inside the Senate report on CIA torture; the Office of Legal Council's memos authorizing the program; and the CIA's lies to the credulous Department of Justice.

Blogger Marcy Wheeler discusses the government's persecution of CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling, who faces 80 years in prison on unproven, circumstantial evidence under the Espionage Act, related to his communication with journalist James Risen about the CIA's Merlin operation against Iran.