| John Batchelor Show

Radio Exclusive: CIA Honored Benghazi Chief in Secret

Tuesday 21 May 2013 / Hour 1, Block C: Eli Lake, senior national security correspondent, Newsweek/Daily Beast, in re: Exclusive: CIA Honored Benghazi Chief in Secret Ceremony. Part of why the State Department has taken the brunt of the political blame for the Benghazi attack, writes Eli Lake,...
May 22, 2013 0

Storm Clouds over Oklahoma & Washington

Monday 20 May 2013 / Hour 2, Block A: John Avlon, CNN, The Daily Beast, and Newsweek International; John Fund, National Review Online; David M Drucker, Washington Examiner sr Congressional correspondent, in re: Mayor of Oklahoma City, Nick Cornett, en route back to town from a trade mission...
May 21, 2013 0

Trifecta Scandals

Monday 20 May 2013 / Hour 1, Block C: Lara M Brown, Villanova and Salena Zito, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, in re: trifecta scandals. Day after day, irrespective of the subject of the latest dust-up, we've heard a similar refrain from the West Wing: "The President was not aware. The White House...
May 20, 2013 0

Turkey & Syria: Into Darkness

Thursday 16 May 2013 / Hour 2, Block A: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, in re: Rose Garden conversation today between the Turkish PM Mr Erdogan and the American president; it started to rain; the president called in the Marines. Syria: the PM was stronger abt Assad leaving than...
May 19, 2013 0

Outback Economics

Thursday 16 May 2013 / Hour 1, Block C: John Roskam, Australia, in re: $20bil deficit in Australia; Gillard claims a "sledgehammer" has been take to the budget – but it turns out that revenues are rising rapidly, and govt hasn’t a revenue problem, it has a spending problem. In parliament,...
May 18, 2013 0

Benghazi Document Dump

Thursday 16 May 2013 Guest: co-host Mary Kissel, WSJ; Larry Johnson, NoQuarter, in re: intelligence community was out in front; then White House, then State. It was the policy people returning to intell demanding changes; intell agreed under pressure from State and WH – who were second-guessing...
May 17, 2013 0

Cloak & Dagger Scandal

Wednesday 15 May 2013/ Hour 3, Block A: Rep Devin Nunes (CA-21), in re: The IRS dragnet included ht gallery of the House of Representatives: issue of the separation of powers between Executive and Legislative. The press there is reporting on the Legislative, who've been spied on by the...
May 16, 2013 0

Hong Kong's CY Leung: More Unpopular Than the IRS?

Wednesday 15 May 2013/ Hour 2, Block A: Mike Davis, professor of law at the University of Hong Kong, in re: the screening of candidates in Hong Kong. XI speaks of economic control, but looks to increasing Party control. The success of China rests on the success of Hong Kong – can he risk...
May 15, 2013 0

IRS Brushfire Spreads

Tuesday 14 May 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Larry Kudlow, and James Taranto, in re: Scandalmageddon. US State Dept employee in Moscow arrested and perp-walked, accompanied by his two wigs (one blond), dagger, karaoke-style microphone, flashlight, and other unexpected items, along with a whole lot...
May 14, 2013 0

Washington in Crisis

Monday 13 May 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Thomas Joscelyn, Long War Journal senior editor, and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD, in re: a three-man al Qaeda cell in Egypt had many intl ties; NY T says addtl embassies may also have been in their crosshairs. Egyptian Interior Min-istry: plan was...
May 13, 2013 0