Nov 8, 2007 | podcasts, war/terrorism
What’s the most dangerous nation on Earth? Catherine Scott-Clark says, without a doubt, it’s Pakistan, which has been making news this week with the instability of Pervez Musharraf and his military government. Scott-Clark and fellow invesigative journalist Adrian Levy have spent the last couple of years looking into Pakistan’s nuclear threat, and uncovered several disturbing […]
Oct 22, 2007 | podcasts, war/terrorism
Today I talked with Abe Foxman, who has been national director of the Anti-Defamation League for the last 20 years. We discussed his book, “The Deadliest Lies,” which is a response to the writing of two professors who blame “the Israel lobby” for many things, including our involvement in Iraq. Foxman addressed that, and the […]
Oct 12, 2007 | podcasts, war/terrorism
Today I talked with Mike Helms, a civilian counterintelligence expert who was serving alongside Army troops in Iraq when the humvee he was in hit an IED and was blown apart. Mike suffered severe injuries, inclding burns, a broken tailbone, shrapnel wounds, and tramatic brain injury. You’d think the goverment he works for would take […]
Oct 1, 2007 | podcasts, war/terrorism
General Wesley Clark was on my show this afternoon to talk about his book, “A Time To Lead: For Duty, Honor, and Country.” After we got past whether he’ll be Hillary Clinton’s running mate next year, we got into a discussion of what he would do about Iraq, how he feels about the use of […]
Sep 27, 2007 | podcasts, war/terrorism
Judge Andrew Napolitano was back on my show this afternoon to talk about US District Judge Ann Aiken’s ruling that two provisions of the Patriot Act are unconstitutional. As Judge Nap pointed out, the government has now lost every single Patriot Act case in court, with federal judge after federal judge ruling against it — […]
Sep 20, 2007 | podcasts, war/terrorism
With his 15-hour documentary series “The War” about to debut Sunday night on PBS, Ken Burns returned to my show today. We discussed the reaction he’s had from veterans at early screenings across the country, the difference in media coverage of World War II and the Iraq War, We also talked about the level of […]