Interview with Thomas Drake, a former NSA senior executive and whistleblower, conducted by Melinda Tuhus.

Thomas Drake talks about this latest development at his former agency. Twenty years ago, Drake revealed the George W. Bush administration’s post 9/11 warrantless mass surveillance program, 9/11 intelligence failures and multibillion-dollar fraud and waste. To tell his story, Drake first went through all the proper government procedures, but finally talked to a newspaper reporter after he believed all established whistleblower channels had failed. He was indicted by the Obama administration in 2010 under the Espionage Act and faced up to 35 years in prison if convicted on all counts.

He was indicted by the Obama administration in 2010 under the Espionage Act and faced up to 35 years in prison if convicted on all counts. Eventually, the case collapsed and Drake pleaded guilty to one minor misdemeanor count, with all other charges dropped. Here, he says there may be justification for the NSA reorganization, but he’s skeptical about what it would accomplish and the rushed timeline for implementation.

Interview with Paul Street, independent radical-democratic policy researcher, journalist, historian and author of This Happened Here: Amerikaners, Neoliberals, and the Trumping of America, conducted by Scott Harris.

Paul Street discusses his column, “It’s Only Wednesday, For Fascist’s Sakes!” a compendium of Donald Trump’s crimes against democracy from less than one recent week.

Interview with Kim Ives, a journalist and editor at the weekly newspaper Haïti Liberté, conducted by Scott Harris.

Kim Ives talks about the issues he’s covering in Haiti, news of ongoing violence, the role of Erik Prince, founder of the private military contractor Blackwater, the UN adjacent Gang Suppression Force, and the Trump regime’s decision to revoke TPS status for some 350,000 Haitians in the U.S., with the threat of mass deportation.

Interview with Nicolas J.S. Davies, an independent journalist, a researcher with CODEPINK, and the author of Blood On Our Hands: the American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq, conducted by Scott Harris.

Nicholas Davies discusses his recent column co-written with Medea Benjamin, “The Urgency of Recognizing the Ansar Allah Government in Yemen,” and issues related to the current situation in Yemen, Trump’s war on Iran, and the conflict’s impact on the flow of Middle East oil.

Interview with Victor Pickard, the C. Edwin Baker professor of media policy and political economy at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

Professor Pickard discusses Donald Trump’s decision to ban journalists from CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from the White House grounds, revoking their press credentials and triggering a major constitutional showdown over press freedom. He focuses on this recent issue in the context of the many other instances of Trump regime attacks on journalists, media outlets and the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of the press.

Interview with Dr. Lynn Goldman, professor of Environmental & Occupational Health at George Washington University, conducted by Melinda Tuhus.

Between The Lines’ Melinda Tuhus spoke with Dr. Lynn Goldman, professor of environmental and occupational health at George Washington University, a pediatrician, and former assistant administrator for toxic substances at the Environmental Protection Agency. Here she talks about the dangers of the Trump regime’s elimination of power plant emission regulations and what’s being done to oppose it.

Interview with Shayna, a critical care nurse, anti-imperialist organizer and spokesperson for organizers of this past Saturday’s Ed Sheeran demonstration, conducted by Scott Harris.

Shayna, a critical care nurse, anti-imperialist organizer and spokesperson for organizers of this past Saturday’s pro-Palestinian demonstration, discusses how hundreds gathered outside of Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field ahead of Ed Sheeran’s first concert after rapper Macklemore was dropped as an opening act because of several stadium owners’ objections to his earlier pro-Palestinian remarks. Following Macklemore’s exit, all of Sheeran’s opening acts and his own Beoga band members, protested by withdrawing from his 42-city Loop Tour in 15 countries, including Finneas, Lukas Graham, and Aaron Row. Protesters at the Philadelphia concert venue demanded a free Palestine, an end to the ongoing genocide in Gaza, while condemning the blatant silencing of artists who express solidarity with the Palestinian people.

Interview with Miranda Bogen, director and chief technologist, of the Center for Democracy & Technology’s AI Governance Lab, conducted by Scott Harris.

Miranda Bogen talks about the important work her group has been doing to educate the public on the dangers of unregulated artificial intelligence, while calling for new AI regulatory legislation at both the U.S. federal level and internationally. This conversation follows a week when news coverage of AI erupted after high-profile researchers warned that increasingly powerful AI systems may be advancing faster than scientists can reliably control them, and reports of six cases of unauthorized AI behavior, including AI agents concealing mistakes and circumventing human direction.