Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, discusses why Bush and Cheney must have known most Guantanamo prisoners were innocent, the US military's inability to do battlefield vetting of Afghan war prisoners, Cheney's reversal of the Blackstone formulation on the wrongful imprisonment of innocents, how Colin Powell and others were kept out of the loop about intelligence based on tortured confessions, how the intelligence failures on Iraq WMD were in part due...
07/01/10 – Kenneth O’Keefe – The Scott Horton Show
Human rights activist Kenneth O'Keefe discusses his reasons for joining the Gaza aid flotilla, his disillusionment with the vaunted Marine Corps honor code, the use of experimental vaccines on unwitting soliders in the Gulf War, terrorist accusations leveled at him and associated organizations by Israel's defenders and why he will keep trying to run the Gaza blockade until it ends.
07/01/10 – Robert Higgs – The Scott Horton Show
Robert Higgs, senior fellow at the Independent Institute, discusses the tiresome rants of gloom and doom survivalists, why those who long for a government or economic collapse should be careful what they wish for, why federal spending can't continue at the current level without a bond market revolt, the none-too-encouraging result of the Soviet Union's collapse and why the US empire may face gradual cutbacks instead of outright abolition.
06/30/10 – Ray McGovern – The Scott Horton Show
Ray McGovern, former senior analyst at the CIA, discusses the hype surrounding a seemingly benign Russian spy ring in the US, the sorely needed FBI public relations boost from their apparent counter-espionage success, CIA director Leon Panetta's disincentive for changing the 2007 Iran National Intelligence Estimate and why Iran really was pursuing a nuclear weapons program prior to 2003.
06/30/10 – Jason Ditz – The Scott Horton Show
Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses Iraqi factional divisions that have prevented a Prime Minister from being seated from the March elections, the regained prominence of former PM's Ayad Allawi and Ibrahim al-Jaafari, violent popular protests against Iraq's incompetent government, persistent rumors of Saudi airspace authorization for an Israeli attack on Iran and CIA director Leon Panetta's misleading claim that Iran has enough uranium for 2 nukes.
06/29/10 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses how Gen. David Petraeus's political skills and reputation could enable a compromise settlement in Afghanistan, speculation that Gen. Stanley McChrystal got fired on purpose, the August deadline for significant US troop reduction in Iraq and why even war boosters aren't talking about victory in Afghanistan anymore.
06/29/10 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show
Internationally syndicated columnist Eric Margolis discusses the cultural meaning of WWII for Americans, nostalgia in Russia for Soviet times, the US and British capitulation to Stalin at the Yalta Conference, why FDR was a senile fool and/or a communist and how the Security Council nations use the UN as a fig leaf for their aggressive actions.
06/29/10 – Fred Branfman – The Scott Horton Show
Fred Branfman, author of the article '5 Million Iraqis Killed, Maimed, Tortured, Displaced ”” Think That Bothers War Boosters Like Christopher Hitchens?' discusses the demonstrably false assertion that Iraqis are 'better off' now than under Saddam Hussein, why liberal warhawks like Hitchens bear a moral burden for Iraqi civilian deaths, the ongoing class war in America (that the billionaires are winning) and why holding elections does not qualify Iraq as a democracy.
06/28/10 – Anand Gopal – The Scott Horton Show
Independent journalist Anand Gopal discusses his interview with Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar about peace talks with the Karzai government, the probable short tenure of whatever political entity (including the Taliban) fills the void after US departure, why COIN-inspired night raids that succeed in killing Taliban commanders are still counterproductive and why Hamid Karzai’s dominion is even less than his derogatory 'Mayor of Kabul' title suggests.
06/25/10 – Larry Siems – The Scott Horton Show
Larry Siems, principal author on the ACLU project The Torture Report, discusses his effort to summarize the thousands of Bush administration torture documents obtained through FOIA requests, the dozens of US citizens targeted for extrajudicial assassination by the Obama administration, John Durham's long investigation into the CIA's destruction of torture tapes and the massive opposition within the FBI and other agencies against torture.
06/25/10 – Will Grigg – The Scott Horton Show
Will Grigg, author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the police assault on bedridden 86-year old Lona Varner, the dissolution of the chronically-troubled Maywood CA police department and the trend toward military-style civilian law enforcement.
06/25/10 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses Afghanistan policy with Gen. David Petraeus in charge, how the military has achieved ideological hegemony in the US, Obama's window of opportunity to deflect blame for failure in Afghanistan and why Petraeus was close to declaring defeat in Iraq before his 2007 testimony to Congress.
06/24/10 – Bruce Schneier – The Scott Horton Show
Internationally renowned security technologist Bruce Schneier discusses Joe Lieberman’s proposal for an internet 'kill switch,' why shutting down the internet during a crisis would cause more harm than good and how controversial websites like WikiLeaks use data redundancy spread out in different countries to prevent being shut down.
06/24/10 – Andy Worthington – The Scott Horton Show
Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, discusses the nearly 75% success rate of Guantanamo detainee habeas hearings, why Gitmo inmate Mohammed Hassan Odaini — despite winning his habeas case and being cleared for release by the Bush and Obama administrations — remains in custody, the government’s incredibly flimsy evidence against the so called 'worst of the worst' and how Washington political games and moral cowardice prevents justice from being served.
06/23/10 – Michael Hastings – The Scott Horton Show
Michael Hastings, author of the article 'The Runaway General' in Rolling Stone magazine, discusses the controversy surrounding his profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal (who has now been relieved of command in Afghanistan).
