John Brennen

New York Times National Security Correspondent and author of the The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth Mark Mazzetti explains how the roots of the CIA Senate spying scandal began with the 2005 CIA destruction of torture tapes, Dianne Feinstein’s accusations against the CIA, the […]
Jeremy Scahill, the author of Dirty Wars, explained what inspired his new book, covering the victims of America’s covert wars, The concept of America is a hyper power, the continuity of Dirty Wars from Bush to Obama, the evolution of JSOC,the story of Anwar al-Awlaki, how the FBI pressured al-Awlaki for cooperation, The killing al-Alwlaki’s son and […]
The Guardian’s, Glenn Greenwald explained John Brennan’s role in the Bush Administration’s torture program, how Brennan worked his way into Obama’s inner circle, Brennan’s history of dishonesty public on national security issues, his role as the architect of the Obama Administration’s drone program and why Brennan’s nomination in 2013 should be even more controversial than […]
Mother Jone’s Kevin Drum explained why crime really goes down, what Lead does to the brain, why faddish crime theories don’t explain the drop in crime, ways to measure the connection between Lead and crime,  why comparing crime to an epidemic doesn’t make sense, and why we need to aggressively clean up Lead across America. […]