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Interview on Tulsa National Public Radio Affiliate Show Today, "Studio Tulsa"
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I had a great evening speaking to members of the Tulsa Committee on Foreign Relations last night and even ran into a high school pal of James Woolsey, also from Tulsa, who has some of the same concerns I do about our former CIA Director who has benefited too much financially in my view from our war against Iraq and terrorists in general.
For those interested, I did a pretty long interview with Rich Fisher of a show called "Studio Tulsa" on U.S. foreign policy. It will air live at 11:30 am Central time, or 12:30 pm for those of you in the Eastern time zone. The rest of you in Vegas or Seattle have to calculate the time yourselves. My clock is still in Tel Aviv.
The podcast will be available tomorrow for download from the NPR affiliate's website.
I'm flying to Westchester, New York today to attend a retreat at Pocantico that is focusing on the next steps in a major national effort titled "US in the World." Check it out.
More soon.
-- Steve Clemons
Here's my personal experience with Woolsey. He recently came to Houston to speak to the Houston World Affairs Council--and charged $30 a head. He wants us to pay him for his war mongeroring. Hey, if you go to the toilet on my head, don't expect me to thank you for the hat....I passed.
Steve, I apologize if I may have missed a previous post, but just how many miles a year do you fly? And do you have your own plane?
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And to wkmeier -- no personal plane here, though it certainly would help. I fly somewhere around 150,000 miles/year -- too much, but every year, I think it will decrease -- but not yet.
And speaking of planes, I need to run and catch a connecting flight.
More later.
-- Steve Clemons
Thanks for the response, Steve. Unfortunately, your Newamerica account rejected the three files as exceeding quota. (True also for another colleague of yours there.) The plan was also sent to another e-mail address you've published on the internet.
Rachel Boynton doesn't come off as very hard-hitting in the linked interview. Wish I could be at the event; it's hard to imagine the film avoids taking a stance to the extent she does.
I have questions about the lawfulness of such heavy U.S. involvement, private sector or not, in other countries' elections.
During the 1994 elections in El Salvador, the first since the end of the war there, U.S. embassy officials repeatedly went to the FMLN campaign office and warned them against having North American volunteers help in any way, strongly implying that to do so would be a violation of Salvadoran election law (though why that would be the U.S. embassy's business is a mystery). Meanwhile, the ARENA campaign spent almost $2 million on U.S. political consultants, who did their ads, their posters, and more.
Ever since, I've wondered what, if anything, U.S. law has to say on the matter.
Oops! Sorry, wrong thread.
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