On this week’s KPFK/Pacifica Radio BradCast I was joined by investigate journalist and author Greg Palast to discuss his disturbing report on the GOP’s secret “Interstate Crosscheck” database and the hundreds of thousands of voters it may have knocked off the rolls this year.
PLUS: A flashback to my interview with then 25-year old paralyzed Iraq War veteran turned anti-war activist Tomas Young at “Camp Casey” in Crawford, TX in August of 2005. It was Young’s first national interview proceeding his story being told on CBS 60 Minutes in 2006 and in Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro’s documentary Body of War in 2007. During the interview, Young (who had driven 13 hours from Kansas City on his honeymoon, despite unceasing pain) describes the tragic story of how he was wounded during a rescue mission in an unarmored truck in Sadr City; how and when he turned against Bush’s war; we joke about BBQ in Missouri and more; and then hatch a (successful) plot to bring his story to national attention.
After years of demanding accountability for the Bush/Cheney Administration war criminals, Young died earlier this week just before Veterans’ Day and just weeks shy of his 35th birthday.
Great interview!
When it was first published on BradBlog I only had Dial-up and neglected to wait for it to load in.
How does the GOP pull an unforeseen rabbit out of the hat right before every election? They probably sat on this since the last election and planned to whip up a frenzy in the “news” about it right before this election. So what will they do right before the 2016 election? Can it be planned for how to combat this bottom of the 9th trick right before every election?