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Journalist Josh Rushing joins Scott to discuss a documentary he produced for Al Jazeera about Julian Assange. Rushing talks about his experience making the documentary, what they focused on and why they produced it now. They run through the many myths people still believe about Assange before getting into the multiple ways he has been targeted by the government and betrayed by many of his fellow journalists. 

Discussed on the show:

• The imprisonment of Julian Assange
• Scott’s interview with Gabriel Shipton, Julian Assange’s brother
• The Julian Assange Indictment
• WikiLeaks: Collateral Murder (Iraq, 2007)
• The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
• README.txt: A Memoir by Chelsea Manning
• “An open letter from editors and publishers: Publishing is not a Crime” (The Guardian)
• “Alternative Facts: How the media failed Julian Assange” (Harper’s Magazine)
• “Inside the CIA’s secret war plans against WikiLeaks” (Yahoo News)
• “How Comey intervened to kill WikiLeaks’ immunity deal” (The Hill)
• ‘I Sold The Iraq War And Regret It’
• Mission Al-Jazeera by Josh Rushing

Josh Rushing is an American broadcast journalist and photographer. He is a correspondent for the Emmy-winning documentary series, Fault Lines, on Al Jazeera English. He is also a former officer of the United States Marine Corps. Follow him on Twitter @joshrushing

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Blogger Marcy Wheeler discusses how Congress’s NSA “reform” bill is actually enabling the NSA to spy even more broadly than before.

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06.03.14 — Marcy Wheeler

Alright y’all welcome back to the show here, I’m Scott Horton this is my show, The Scott Horton Show. Our first guest on the show, maybe our only guest on the show, I’m still waiting to hear back from a couple of people. Anyways, it’s the meticulous Marcy Wheeler from www.emptywheel.net, that’s her blog -some other great writers over there, Jim White and Bmaz, (I think that’s it?). Anyway, they writer great stuff, especially Marcy.

As Snowden Leak Anniversary Approaches the Intelligence Community Prepares to Declare Victory. Oh man, I don’t like your headline at all Marcy – welcome back to the show.

MW: Sorry to piss everyone off!

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Reza Marashi, Research Director at the National Iranian American Council, discusses the concessions that need to be made by Iran and the US before a successful nuclear deal can be finalized.

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Hi ya’ll welcome back to the show, The Scott Horton Show, I’m Scott Horton. scotthorton.org. Now we go to our friend Reza Marashi. He’s at the national Iranian American Council, that’s niacouncil.org and what they do is they push for peace between the US and Iran and I’m down with that, welcome back to the show Reza, how are you doing?

RM: I’m doing well, thanks for having me

SH: And by the way I never get this right in your introduction could you please tell us what was the name of your job when you worked in the US State Department.

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Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses the limited resources the US government ought to be using in the war on terrorism; Hamid Karzai’s increasingly tenuous grip on power in Afghanistan as US troops withdraw; and Obama’s responsibility for the Al Qaeda-affiliated rebels fighting in Syria.

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06.02.14 — Phil Giraldi

Hi y’all welcome to the show, The Scott Horton Show, I’m Scott Horton and next up is our friend Phil Giraldi, he is formerly CIA and DIA and now he’s the director of the Council for the National Interest www.councilforthenationalinterest.org, they’ve got an America first foreign policy they push over there, you might want to find out all about it. Of course also he writes for the American Conservative Magazine www.unz.com and you can find some at Al Jazeera America as well. Welcome back to the show, how are you doing Phil?

PG: I’m fine Scott, how are you?

SH: I’m doing good, appreciate you joining us on the show again. Hey, listen so, lately I’ve been getting paranoid, and we talked about this recently too, in fact there was the new State Department report that came out, there was some analysis by Jonathan Landay, McClatchy and all that, and the administration are really wishy washy on all of this stuff because they are backing the terrorists in a lot of these instances and so they’re not being completely honest and so it seems like, y’know, you’ve been saying on this show for years that look, ‘the real number of actual dangerous terrorists in the world is somewhere around a couple of thousand, so don’t panic’, but now I’m wondering if that number is quite a bit higher because of the Bush Administrations foreign policy in Iraq and the Obama Administrations foreign policy in Libya and especially in Syria.

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Ramzy Baroud, editor of The Palestine Chronicle, discusses General Khalifa Haftar’s coup in Libya; his close relationship with the CIA and adoption of US anti-terrorism rhetoric, and his suspicious war on the Libyan Muslim Brotherhood.

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Ed Krayewski, an associate editor at Reason.com, discusses the baby critically injured by a flash bang grenade thrown by a Habersham County sheriff deputy during a drug raid; and why many Americans would rather have a police state than the burden of personal responsibility.

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Michael Scheuer, former Chief of the CIA’s Bin Laden Issue Station, discusses how US foreign policy has made the Al Qaeda problem enormously larger than on 9/11; why it’s in the US national interest to fight a war in Nigeria; and the self-perpetuating nature of today’s jihad.

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Jacob Hornberger, founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses Edward Snowden’s interview with NBC’s Brian Williams; reminding Americans that patriotism doesn’t mean blind obedience to government; Glenn Greenwald’s promise to reveal a list of US citizens spied on by the NSA; and why it’s time to pull out the impeachment papers on President Obama.

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Journalist Joshua Eaton discusses what we’ve learned about NSA surveillance abuses from nearly a year of Edward Snowden’s revelations – helpfully compiled in a timeline at Al Jazeera America.

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