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Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com
Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com. Originating on Pacifica Radio's KPFK 90.7FM in Los Angeles and syndicated coast-to-coast and around the globe! NOW FIVE DAYS A WEEK!
'BradCast' 8/25/2017 (Guest: Sue Fulton of SPARTA on Trump's transgender military ban)
08-25-2017 (53.2 MB)
First up today, Hurricane Harvey is set to slam into the Texas Gulf coast as dire warnings are issued by the National Weather Service that some areas may be "uninhabitable for weeks or months" thereafter. The startling language in the forecasts echo that used in NWS warnings issued prior to Hurricane Katrina, 12 years ago this week (as we also covered on air at the time). Our own Desi Doyen -- a Texas native -- explains the concerns of changing global warming-fueled extreme weather patterns that have forecasters predicting the storm may stall in place for days, dropping massive amounts of rainfall (as much as 40 inches in some places), before the storm could move back out to the Gulf only to return for a second landfall. Are state and federal officials fully prepared for what's to come? Then, we're joined by Sue Fulton, former President of Sparta, an organization supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender members of the military and their families, to discuss Donald Trump's recent surprise Twitter-announcement that he intends to restore the ban on openly transgender service members in the military. Fulton, a former U.S. Army Captain and a member of the first co-ed graduating class at West Point, had worked with the Obama Administration's Pentagon on the policy that had lifted the trans ban last year. She describes the detailed and meticulous process undertaken by the Pentagon in lifting the ban, the military's own interest in carrying out that policy change, and how Trump's decision to reinstate the ban appears to run counter to military readiness as well as the wishes of active duty military leaders and service members. We also discuss why Trump appears to have reinstated the ban despite the success in lifting it, and comparable successes with similar policies that had previously barred both women and openly gay members in years past. Then, as luck would have it, near the end of today's show, news breaks that, in fact, Trump has signed the new policy guidance, ordering the Pentagon to proceed with restoring the ban on transgender service members.
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