11/9/23 James Bamford on the Israeli Attack on the USS Liberty

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Scott is joined by James Bamford to discuss Israel’s attack on the USS Liberty in 1967. Bamford lays out the story of what happened. They then discuss the coverup and play down by the US government and compare it with the impression at the top of the intelligence community that the attack was deliberate. Discussed on the show: Spyfail by James Bamford Body of Secrets by James Bamford James Bamford is a journalist, professor, documentary filmmaker, and the author of Spyfail: Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs, and the Collapse of America’s Counterintelligence, Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency and A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America’s Intelligence Agencies. Find him on Twitter @WashAuthor. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, y'all welcome to the Scott Horton's show.
0:02.0	I'm the director of the
0:03.0	all right, y'all, welcome to the Scott Horton show.
0:12.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute,
0:14.8	editorial director of anti-war.com.
0:17.7	Author of the book, Pools Arran,
0:19.6	Time to End the War in Afghanistan
0:21.6	and the brand new enough already. Time to end the war in Afghanistan and the brand new enough already time to end the war on
0:24.9	terrorism and I've recorded more than 5,500 interviews since 2003 almost all on
0:31.4	foreign policy and all available for you at
0:34.3	Scott Horton.4 you can sign up the podcast feed there and the full
0:38.7	interview archive is also available at YouTube. YouTube. He is the author of the Puzzle Palace, body of secrets, and the Shadow Factory about the National Security Agency.
0:58.0	And he also wrote a pretext for war, 9-11 Iraq and the abuse of America's intelligence agencies, which is, oh man, he goes
1:06.0	hard on the Neocon's and that thing.
1:07.7	It's so good.
1:08.8	And then he's got a new one, which, Jim, I apologize to you, but I have a great excuse.
1:14.8	I'm really, really busy.
1:16.4	It's called Spy Fail, and I haven't read it yet,
1:19.0	but we did talk about it when it first came out
1:21.0	and you wrote a couple of pieces at the nation and I know it's good and I read
1:26.0	actually recently Grant Smith wrote a nice little review of it for the Washington
1:31.0	report on Middle East affairs.
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