Wait. A man was sentenced to 66 months in prison, most of which he's already served and then when he gets out he stays in forever? Right. The White House-chosen military panel - not a jury - at Camp Justice at occupied Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, issued a split decision Wednesday in the case of the notorious driver of Osama bin Laden, Salim Hamdan. The panel acquitted him on the original conspiracy charges, but convicted him of material support for terrorism. It was the first "trial" under the...
08/07/08 – Dahr Jamail – The Scott Horton Show
Dahr Jamail, reporter for IPS News and author of Beyond the Green Zone, discusses the new effort by the Maliki government to allow the former Sunni insurgency - now known at the 'Sons of Iraq' or 'Concerned Local Citizens' - into the police forces in Baquba in order to fight 'al Qaeda in Iraq,' the various militias’ within the government and their primary loyalties, precarious politics in Kirkuk, Maliki’s statements in favor of American withdrawal, the irony of the U.S. backing the...
08/07/08 – Scott Horton – The Scott Horton Show
The Other Scott Horton, international human rights lawyer and contributing editor to Harper’s magazine, discusses the 'conviction' of Bin Laden’s driver Salim Hamdan, the distinctions which crimes constitute 'war crimes,' the illegitimacy of the military tribunals and how they are being timed to help the Republican Presidential campaign, the need to uphold the Nuremberg Principles, Cheney’s central role in the administration, how he allowed top al Qaeda to escape into Pakistan, how the charade...
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The Show: Glenn Greenwald
Today on Antiwar Radio blogger Glenn Greenwald will be discussing the Anthrax case. Listen live from 11-1pm Texas time on 92.7FM in Austin, KAOSRadioAustin.org or Antiwar.com/radio.
08/05/08 – Michael Scheuer – The Scott Horton Show
Michael Scheuer, former chief of the CIA's bin Laden unit and author of Marching Toward Hell, discusses the new revelations in Ron Suskind's new book about an alleged White House order behind the forged link between Saddam Hussein and Mohamed Atta and his work which debunked any real Iraq-al Qaeda connection in January of 2003. MP3 Here.
08/05/08 – Glenn Greenwald – The Scott Horton Show
Glenn Greenwald, author and legal blogger for Salon.com, discusses his new radio show, new developments in the 2001 anthrax case, the FBI's smear campaign against dead physicist Bruce Ivins, media trumpeting of government claims, the widespread fear created and power gained by the anthrax attacks and questions about Washington insiders' taking Cipro before the attacks. MP3 Here.
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Against Jingoism and Hypocrisy by Ron Paul
Statement before the US House of Representatives, July 30, 2008, on H. RES. 1370, Calling on the Government of the People's Republic of China to immediately end abuses of the human rights of its citizens Madam Speaker, I rise in opposition to this resolution, which is yet another meaningless but provocative condemnation of China. It is this kind of jingoism that has led to such a low opinion of the United States abroad. Certainly I do not condone human rights abuses, wherever they may occur,...
08/01/08 – Warren Richey – The Scott Horton Show
Warren Richey, crime reporter for the Christian Science Monitor, discusses the first Guantanamo military commission 'trial' of Bin Laden’s driver Salim Ahmed Hamdan, the extremely low bar the government is trying to set as precedent by trying such a low level bin Laden associate first, Hamdan’s doom to stay detained as an enemy combatant for the rest of his life whether convicted or aquitted of war crimes, the possibility that the Boumedine case could be used as precedent for those 'convicted'...
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Greenwald Interview Lost
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07/31/08 – Larry Velvel – The Scott Horton Show
Larry Velvel, dean of the Massachusetts School of Law and sponsor of the upcoming Justice Robert Jackson Conference On The Planning For Prosecution Of High Level American War Criminals, featuring Francis Boyle, Vincent Bugliosi, Philippe Sands and others, discusses the many crimes of the Bush administration, the history of unaccountability of our leaders, the legal gymnastics perpetrated by the Bush regime lawyers, the immunity clauses of the Military Commission Act and how they might effect...
07/30/08 – Fred Kaplan – The Scott Horton Show
Fred Kaplan, columnist for Slate and author of Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power, discusses his recent article: 'How Much Does John McCain Really Know About Foreign Policy? Not As Much As He’d Like You To Think' which lays out McCain’s many foreign policy misstatements and mistakes including wanting to kick Russia out of the G8 and start a 'League of Democracies' to bypass the U.N., his wish to take policy back to the early years of the Bush administration and...
