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Trifecta Scandals
Monday 20 May 2013 / Hour 1, Block C: Lara M Brown, Villanova, and Mona Charen, NRO, and Salena Zito, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, in re: trifecta scandals. Day after day, irrespective of the subject of the latest dust-up, we've heard a similar refrain from the West Wing: "The President was not aware. The White House was not involved."
From the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service to the Justice Department's subpoena of the Associated Press' telephone records to...
Turkey & Syria: Into Darkness
Thursday 16 May 2013 / Hour 2, Block A: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, in re: Rose Garden conversation today between the Turkish PM Mr Erdogan and the American president; it started to rain; the president called in the Marines. Syria: the PM was stronger abt Assad leaving than...
Outback Economics
Thursday 16 May 2013 / Hour 1, Block C: John Roskam, Australia, in re: $20bil deficit in Australia; Gillard claims a "sledgehammer" has been take to the budget – but it turns out that revenues are rising rapidly, and govt hasn’t a revenue problem, it has a spending problem. In parliament,...
Benghazi Document Dump
Thursday 16 May 2013 Guest: co-host Mary Kissel, WSJ; Larry Johnson, NoQuarter, in re: intelligence community was out in front; then White House, then State. It was the policy people returning to intell demanding changes; intell agreed under pressure from State and WH – who were second-guessing...
Cloak & Dagger Scandal
Wednesday 15 May 2013/ Hour 3, Block A: Rep Devin Nunes (CA-21), in re: The IRS dragnet included ht gallery of the House of Representatives: issue of the separation of powers between Executive and Legislative. The press there is reporting on the Legislative, who've been spied on by the...
Hong Kong's CY Leung: More Unpopular Than the IRS?
Wednesday 15 May 2013/ Hour 2, Block A: Mike Davis, professor of law at the University of Hong Kong, in re: the screening of candidates in Hong Kong. XI speaks of economic control, but looks to increasing Party control. The success of China rests on the success of Hong Kong – can he risk...