Don't miss this week's Making Sense with Steve Leser Radio show! Top Story: Whistleblowing!

[stevenleser]

7pm Eastern time tonight, Sunday August 4th on Blogtalkradio.com (link below) and Monday August 5th at 2pm Pacific time on KCAA Radio 1050am in Inland Empire, California.

Our top story this week is Whistleblowing, specifically the cases of Bradley Manning and Eric Snowden and the journalists who broke their stories, Glenn Greenwald and Julian Assange. Did those whistleblowers do the right thing? Did the journalists behave responsibly? Should they all have gone about things differently? This follows up on an appearance on RT I made this past week to discuss all of the above.

Then, Pope Francis gave an impromptu speech on the church’s position in regard to gay Catholics. It shocked some people but does it represent a change?

As always we will have our trademark hall of fame and shame for those politicians and prominent individuals who made great sense or shameful nonsense respectively.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/lesersense/2013/08/04/making-sense-with-steve-leser--whistleblowing-and-more

[stevenleser]

1. Additional Notes and relevant items

Repost of my early June Segment on Snowden and Greenwald
http://steveleser.blogspot.com/2013/08/repost-transcript-of-nsa-surveillance.html

RePost: Transcript of the NSA Surveillance Portion of my 6/9-10/13 show
http://kcaaradio.celestrion.net/kcaa-podcasts/leser/20130610.html (Note: 6 minutes of commercials before show starts and the below segment starts at minute 8)
What is the Truth and Full Story about the NSA Surveillance scandal that isn’t being reported anywhere else?

Well, in case you haven’t heard, a June 5th article by Glenn Greenwald in the UK Guardian purports to break the story on an NSA Surveillance scandal that per a FISA court warrant, Verizon is providing the NSA the metadata calling records of all of its customers to include originating number, destination number and date and time of the call. Not the actual calls themselves, just the metadata information about the calls.

Immediately you had a blowup of outrage in the media and the blogosphere that this was some kind of new and horrible thing against our privacy and fourth amendment rights by President Obama. Another take was that he had gone back on his promise to make a change on this from the Bush administration.

One of the problems with this so called scandal is that the reporting by Greenwald was woefully incomplete as to the history of this kind of surveillance and I am not just talking about the Bush administration aspect of it. Greenwald’s omissions in this latest article extend to his own prior coverage of NSA surveillance and to administrations before George W. Bush. Greenwald provided less than 15% of the facts that the public needs to be fully informed about what is going on here.
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Link to my appearance on CrossTalk regarding Manning and Snowden, etc. that aired this past Friday

Link to my appearance on KCAA Radio from this past Friday to discuss NSA/Snowden, etc. My portion begins at 6:50 - http://kcaaradio.celestrion.net/kcaa-podcasts/baxter/20130802.html

[Parable Arable]

3. Thank you for providing an interesting take on this whole thing...

I'm somebody who's fairly sympathetic to what Snowden and Manning did, but to call them just "heroes" or "villains" seems a bit too cut and dry this whole thing is.

PS: Not to sound like a nitpicking know-it-all but "Eric" Snowden? Correct me if I am incorrect, but I believe Edward is his first name.

[stevenleser]

4. Thank you!

There is a lot to analyze here and I am sure this is just the beginning in terms of looking at the folks involved and the allegations they made.

Damn, did I call him Eric?

[Cha]

6. It's all I can do to keep from calling

eric cantor.. eddie.

[stevenleser]

2. Transcript to come tomorrow evening! nt

[Cha]

5. Mahalo, Steven!