01/18/04 – Charles Lewis – The Scott Horton Show

Philip Dru interviews Charles Lewis, the Founder and President of The Center for Public Integrity about his book, The Buying of the President 2004: Who's Really Bankrolling Bush and His Democratic Challengers- and What They Expect in Return. Audio Stream MP3 Link

01/04/04 – Gene Healy – The Scott Horton Show

Philip Dru interviews Gene Healy, the Senior Editor at the Cato Institute about his studies: There Goes the Neighborhood: The Bush-Ashcroft Plan to 'Help' Localities Fight Gun Crime, Arrogance of Power Reborn: The Imperial Presidency and Foreign Policy in the Clinton Years, and Deployed in the U.S.A.: The Creeping Militarization of the Home Front (pdf). Audio Stream MP3 Link

Showstoppers: Nine Reasons Why We Never Sent Our Special Operations Forces after al Qaeda Before 9/11

By Richard H. Shultz Jr., The Weekly Standard, January 1, 2004 SINCE 9/11, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has repeatedly declared that the United States is in a new kind of war, one requiring new military forces to hunt down and capture or kill terrorists. In fact, for some years, the Department of Defense has gone to the trouble of selecting and training an array of Special Operations Forces, whose forte is precisely this. One president after another has invested resources to hone...

12/27/03 – Brigid O'Neil – The Scott Horton Show

Philip Dru interviews Brigid O'Neil, a researcher at the Center on Peace & Liberty at the Independent Institute, and the author of the articles: The PATRIOT Act’s Assault on the Bill of Rights, Jose Padilla: A Constitutional Challenge for Us All, and Uncle Sam’s Guantanamo Prison: Outside the Rule of Law about recent court decisions which challenge Bush's Star Chamber Courts. Audio Stream MP3 Link

12/14/03 – Beverly Eakman – The Scott Horton Show

Philip Dru interviews Beverly Eakman, a former teacher, speechwriter, and researcher, President of the US National Education Consortium, and the author of the books: Educating for the New World Order, Microchipped: How the Education Establishment Took Us Beyond Big Brother, and Cloning of the American Mind: Eradicating Morality Through Education, about America's failed government schools. Audio Stream MP3 Link

12/14/03 – James Bovard – The Scott Horton Show

Philip Dru interviews James Bovard, an award winning journalist, columnist, and author who writes for the Future of Freedom Foundation, and has been published in many major newspapers, as well as written the books:  Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty, Shakedown: How the State Screws You from A to Z, Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State & The Demise of the Citizen, and Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of Evil, about the war...

11/02/03 – Karen Kwiatkowski – The Scott Horton Show

Philip Dru interviews whistle blower Karen Kwiatkowski who recently retired from the Pentagon where she was lieutenant colonel in the US Air Force, about the Office of Special Plans. She writes for LewRockwell.com, which may be why the neocons don't like her very much. Audio Stream MP3 Link