Episode

10/21 James Risen: Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War

October 21, 2014

Journalist and author of Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War James Risen explains the immense corruption of the “war on terror”, Iraqi money laundering, the new mercenary class, the conman who claimed to read secret terrorism message on Al Jazeera and duped the CIA and the AirForce, the whistleblower Diane Roark and her abuse at the hands of the NSA, the case the Government is using against James Risen, why there hasn’t been a single news story that has harmed national security during the “war on terror” and why Risen is willing to go to jail to protect his source. On The Fun Half: Sam had to leave because of an emergency. Michael went through your IMs and followed up on Islam and #GamerGate and all your IMs. And keep the conversation going on our

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