[Peace-discuss] Greg Palast interview

[James Buell]

Greg Palast, Canadian muckraker in exile with the BBC and London Observer,
has a superb interview on the GuerrillaNews website. It deals with his
findings on the Florida elections (he's the one who broke the story on the
intentional suppression of votes) and the Bush admin's pre-9/11
instructions to FBI, CIA, etc. to avoid investigating Saudi funding of bin
Laden.

Check it out at http://www.guerrillanews.com/counter_intelligence/231.html

(By the way, Guerrilla News also has some great videos on their site; I
just got a vhs copy and their permission to use some on our future cable
access shows. They're a treasure.)

The introduction:

Above the Law
                                      Bushs Racial Coup DEtat and Intell
Shutdown

                             Did Jeb Bush fix the Florida election long
before any votes were cast? Did
                             President Bush shut down the FBI, CIA and
other intelligence agencies
                             investigations into terror networks prior to
9-11, leaving America wide open to
                             the attacks? 

                             In a conversation with GNN Executive Editor
Anthony Lapp, journalist Greg
                             Palast breaks down two of the biggest scoops
youve never heard and
                             explains how they, and other groundbreaking
stories, are ignored by most
                             mainstream news outlets. 

                             Palast is no conspiracy nut. His special
investigations regularly lead the BBCs
                             Newsnight program. His bi-weekly column for
Londons Observer newspaper
                             has earned him numerous awards including the
Financial Times David
                             Thomas Prize. Last year, Salon.com selected
his report on the U.S. elections
                             as politics story of the year. 

                             Yet despite all the props, Palast, a
Canadian, works in exile in London - unable
                             to find work in what he calls the gutless
North American media. Like the best
                             muckrakers, he is angry, opinionated and
armed with a tireless desire to
                             expose the truth. His stories about Bushs
election theft and intelligence
                             cover-up - both backed up with smoking gun
documents, inside sources and
                             on-the-record interviews - will shock even
the most informed GuerrillaNews
                             reader: