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President Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic congressmember from Hawaii, is facing major qualms from her former colleagues. During her Senate confirmation hearing, Democrats grilled her over her refusal to label whistleblower Edward Snowden a “traitor.” We discuss Snowden’s case and what it revealed about government surveillance of the American public with Chip Gibbons.

President Donald Trump’s nominee for FBI director, Kash Patel, a Trump loyalist who has promoted right-wing conspiracy theories, is “one of Donald Trump’s most disturbing picks” who seems poised to use the office to go after journalists and other Trump critics, says Chip Gibbons of the civil liberties organization Defending Rights & Dissent.

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It's one disaster after another on today's BradCast. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.] Last night, 67 people were killed when an Army Helicopter crashed into an American Airlines jet from Wichita, Kansas as it was coming in for a routine landing at Reagan National Airport in D.C. Everyone in both aircrafts is presumed [...]

Listen to story:https://ia600609.us.archive.org/1/items/2025-01-28-RUWS/2025_01_28_Gina_Dent.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 28:14) FEATURED DR. GINA DENT - How do we think about creating a world free of policing and prisons, a world where the constant fear of state violence is

A new book examines the history, particularly in California, of prison as a tool of white supremacy–of particular relevance today.