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March 26, 2006: The Monitor


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<> 6:00 pm CST -- HEADLINES will be very short today, to bring you three interviews.

<> ~ 6:05 pm CST -- acclaimed investigative reporter SEYMOUR HERSH: September 11 to Iraq (part two)



One of the most respected investigative journalists in America, Seymour Hersh broke the My Lai story in Vietnam in 1969, and has been breaking stories about US intelligence, military, and foreign policy ever since.

His eighth book, Chain of Command, looks at events since September 11, 2001. Topics include intelligence failures prior to 9/11; postwar planning regarding Afghanistan and Iraq; the corruption of the Saudi family; Pakistan's nuclear program; influence peddling at the highest levels; and the torture scandal at Abu Ghraib prison. Hersh writes for The New Yorker, and is ahead of the pack on numerous major stories. He has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, four George Polk awards, and more than a dozen other prizes. His unflinching reports draw on sources at high levels of government.

He charges the Bush administration with being propelled by ideology and hamstrung by incompetence in the Middle East. In the first half of this interview with Monitor co-host Mark Bebawi, Hersh said about Bush "This president, you know, I call him a rebel, or a revolutionary with a bedtime." In this, the second half, he will continue, looking especially at neocon plans in Iraq.

In a previous interview, Hersh said: "How could eight or nine neoconservatives come and take charge of this government? They overran the bureaucracy, they overran the Congress, they overran the press, and they overran the military! So you say to yourself, How fragile is this democracy?" Neocon Richard Perle has called Hersh "the closest thing we have to a terrorist." (Berkeley, 10/08/04, http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/101404E.shtml)

PART ONE of Seymour Hersh was broadcast last week - listen on archives.

BOOK:
Chain of Command : The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib (paperback, August 2005) -- "Hersh’s critics may dismiss these explosive, less than objective conclusions. For others, however, this sobering book is the closest anyone without a security clearance will get to operatives in the inner sanctums of America’s intelligence, military, political and diplomatic worlds." -- Publisher's Weekly


<> ~ 6:25 pm CST -- ION SANCHO, Florida election official who invited a hack team to test his election machines. They waltzed right in and stole the test election.



Ion Sancho is the Supervisor of Elections for Leon County, Florida who invited the Red Team hack of his county's Diebold optical scan equipment. After watching THREE separate demonstrations by two computer experts, Ion found that his voting equipment COULD be hacked, leaving no trace. The same optical scan equipment is in use in many states across the country.

Since then, vendors and state election officials have been attempting to leave Sancho with NO election equipment, and even threatened to run him out of office. Activists are calling Sancho a national hero. Brad Friedman of www.bradblog.com, who has been an intrepid reporter on elections and other pressing issues, joins in the discussion. (This is a shorter version of a guest segment Monitor co-host Pokey Anderson did on Wally James' Progressive Forum on KPFT on March 16.)

Harri Hursti, Finnish computer expert who conducted one of the hacks, explains what he did. (This clip is from a June 2005 Monitor show.)


<> ~ 6:40 pm CST -- David Bay



Now, for something completely different.... The Monitor ventures into uncharted territory!

Monitor co-host Mark Bebawi interviews David Bay, director of Cutting Edge Ministries. In the 1980s, Bay moved to Massachusetts and founded a fundamentalist Baptist church there. Previously, Bay served in Army intelligence in the Vietnam War.

They will look at some of the little-known aspects of the founding of the U.S.. Pagan and occult aspects? Secret societies? Freemasons? Mystery abounds.

DVD:
"Secret Mysteries of America's Beginnings - Vol I. - The New Atlantis". http://www.cuttingedge.org/video/americassecret.html


CO-HOSTS: Mark Bebawi and Pokey Anderson.

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[JimDandy]

1. Thanks for the heads up.

Until now, I've always gotten the notice about a live election reform show too late, in order to hear it live. Have been grateful to have had access to archived shows.
JD

[nicknameless]

2. Thanks for posting this!

:)

Recommended

[kster]

3. K/N/T

[JimDandy]

4. Ion and Brad's segment starts 29 1/2 minutes into the show n/t