March 10 - Hillary Clinton's Press Conference on the Email "Scandal"; The Latest Scheme to Reorganize the CIA; Arkansas' Tea Party Senator Tom Cotton

Full Program

Part 1

We begin with Hillary Clinton’s brief press conference at the U.N. where she answered questions about her use of email from a private server set up for her husband former President Clinton at their family home that is protected by the Secret Service. Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Julia Angwin, author of “Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance”, joins us to discuss the double stand that high government officials want to protect their privacy while ordinary citizens have no privacy and are subject to both government and corporate surveillance, a subject that did not come up in today’s press conference that was focused on the search for scandal that has long dogged the leading if not the only, Democratic candidate for president in 2016.   

Part 2

Then we look into the latest reorganization scheme at the CIA that is meant to make it more successful against threats in the digital age and better able to handle multiple crises. CIA veteran Melvin Goodman, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and author of “National Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism”, joins us to discuss the Brennan plan announced to CIA employees on Friday that relies on more fusion centers like the CTC, the Counterterrorism Center that combines analysts with clandestine operatives and missed 9/11, was responsible for the intelligence failures to stop the Nigerian jock-strap jihadi, the suicide bomber who blew up the most sensitive CIA base in Afghanistan, and the recent failure to assess the burgeoning lethality of the so-called Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.

Part 3

Then finally we speak with Gene Lyons, a nationally syndicated columnist with the Arkansas Times to get a profile of the freshman Tea Party Republican Senator Tom Cotton, who drafted the open letter to the Iranian leadership signed by 46 other Republican Senators which is widely seen as a blatant attempt to sabotage President Obama’s efforts to conclude at deal between the P5+1 and Iran over its nuclear program.