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2/22/17 Jon Schwarz on the connection between Americans’ fear of Muslims and ignorance of foreign policy

by Scott Horton | Feb 22, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show

Jon Schwarz, a writer for The Intercept, discusses President Trump's executive order restricting immigration and why most Americans are understandably confused about why "Muslims hate us," since politicians and the media completely avoid making any link between...

2/1/17 Trevor Aaronson on The Intercept’s cache of secret FBI documents showing their vast powers and operating rules

by Scott Horton | Feb 1, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show

Trevor Aaronson, a contributing writer at The Intercept and executive director of the nonprofit Florida Center for Investigative Reporting, discusses the classified FBI documents obtained by The Intercept showing that the FBI has expanded its role far beyond federal...

The FBI’s Secret Rules

by The Intercept | Jan 31, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice

President Trump has inherited a vast domestic intelligence agency with extraordinary secret powers. A cache of documents offers a rare window into the FBI’s quiet expansion since 9/11. Confidential Human Source Policy Guide Detailed rules for how the FBI handles...

Trump to Abolish Liar Clapper’s Old Director of National Intelligence Spot?

by Scott Horton | Nov 18, 2016 | Blog

Jared, Interesting that Clapper quit when he did -- perhaps in a race to get out before being thrown out. But now the Intercept says Trump and his men are strongly considering abolishing the Director of National Intelligence job and department, and presumably then...

Wrong as Usual

by Charles Goyette | Nov 9, 2016 | Blog

Tim Carney has a funny tweet about the election: "Low-income rural white voters in Pa. voted for Obama in 2008 and then Trump in 2016, and your explanation is white supremacy? Interesting." Found that jewel in an election post-mortem by Glenn Greenwald at The...

10/14/16 Jordan Smith on the feds’ continued use of discredited ‘science’

by Scott Horton | Oct 14, 2016 | The Scott Horton Show

Jordan Smith, an award-winning investigative journalist with The Intercept, discusses why the FBI and DOJ are determined to continue using certain controversial forensic practiceslike bite-mark analysis – even though they are based on “junk science” and have been used...

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UN Review: No Evidence UNRWA Staff Are Terrorists

The UN’s review on UNRWA’s neutrality notes that Israel provided no evidence for its claim that staff members belong to terrorist organizations.

Joe Biden is Such a Liar

He lies about everything. This time it's his uncle Ambrose who was lost at sea during WWII. Genocide Joe lies that he was eaten by cannibals, smearing the people of Papua New Guinea, who fought as America's allies in that war.

John Boyd: Persona Non Grata at the Pentagon

COL John Boyd was quite the maverick in the military ranks and rocked the boat all the time. You will not though incredibly capable, he was never promoted to flag rank. One of the best insights he ever gave was that when one distills strategy simply, it is:...

Class versus Identity Politics?

Parts of the "left" and "right" often lament that class politics has given way to identity politics. I don't get that. Class was the original modern political identity, and state privilege was part of the cause. Libertarians and classical liberals long warned that...

Trita Parsi Interview on Israel and Iran

A good one, by Michael Holmes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSuUSf2P5RU

An American Bombing

The most mainstream documentary about the truth behind the Oklahoma Bombing is now running on HBO. An American Bombing is a great, if partial, vindication of the great work of Glenn and Kathy Wilburn, J.D. Cash, Roger Charles, Jesse Trentadue, Richard Booth, Wendy...

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