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Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
9/21/23 Trevor Timm on Assange, the Espionage Act and Growing Pressure from the Australians
Trevor Timm of the Freedom of the Press Foundation joins the show to give an overview of the U.S.’s case against Julian Assange. They look back at why Obama was uncharacteristically reluctant to charge Assange. That brings them to the current case, brought by the Trump Administration and continued by Biden. They explain the case, debunk the common characterization of Assange as a hacker and finish with a quick look at why Australian officials may be the best chance for an Assange pardon.
Discussed on the show:
- “Prosecuting Assange threatens press freedom. US officials should not need the Australians to explain that to them” (Freedom of the Press Foundation)
Trevor Timm is a co-founder and the executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. He is a journalist, activist, and lawyer whose writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, USA Today, The Atlantic, and many others. Follow him on Twitter @trevortimm.
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03/18/15 – Philip Giraldi – The Scott Horton Show
Philip Giraldi, a former CIA officer and Executive Director of The Council for the National Interest, discusses the Israeli government’s shift to the far right after elections, during which Benjamin Netanyahu denounced a two-state solution and shamelessly pandered to racists.
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03/17/15 – Trevor Aaronson – The Scott Horton Show
Trevor Aaronson, author of The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism, discusses how the FBI created a terrorist out of Sami Osmakac; a mentally ill, broke Florida man who was provided money and weapons by at least one FBI informant in an elaborate counterterrorism sting operation.
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03/16/15 – Mandy Smithberger – The Scott Horton Show
Mandy Smithberger, Director of the Straus Military Reform Project at POGO, discusses why the $1.4 trillion F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program isn’t ready for prime time and won’t be anytime soon.
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03/16/15 – Ray McGovern – The Scott Horton Show
Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst and co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), discusses President Obama’s foreign policy advisers who are actively trying to sabotage the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine; and why the media can’t seem to remember that Victoria Nuland orchestrated the Ukrainian coup.
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03/15/15 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, an award-winning independent journalist, discusses the remaining obstacles to an Iranian nuclear deal; why Israel’s Likud government and its supporters are trying so hard to sabotage a deal; and the history of bad intelligence assessments about Iran’s (non-existent) nuclear weapons program.
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03/13/15 – James Ostrowski – The Scott Horton Show
James Ostrowski, author of Progressivism: A Primer on the Idea Destroying America, discusses the muddied meanings of political ideologies like liberal, progressive, and libertarian; the welfare state’s perverse incentive structure; and how liberty-loving liberals were tricked into becoming government-worshiping progressives.
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03/13/15 – Charlotte Silver – The Scott Horton Show
Independent journalist Charlotte Silver discusses the 18 month prison sentence given to community activist and Chicago resident Rasmea Odeh. A jury found her guilty of lying on her visa and naturalization applications because she didn’t disclose her terrorism conviction in an Israeli military court in 1969. The judge forbade the defense from saying Odeh was tortured until she confessed to the crime.
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03/12/15 – Nancy Youssef – The Scott Horton Show
Nancy Youssef, a journalist with The Daily Beast, discusses her article about the unspoken and informal military alliance between the US military and Iranian-backed Shiite militias, as they both fight against iSIS in Tikrit, Iraq.
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