April 29 – A Messianic Netanyahu?; Growing Dissent in China; “Do Not Ask What Good We Do” and the 9% Congress

We begin with the latest warning by a senior Israeli intelligence official that the country’s leaders Netanyahu and Barak are intent on a war with Iran. The former head of Shin Bet stated publically that “I do not believe in a leadership that makes decisions based on messianic feelings…I have seen them up close. They are not messiahs, these two, and they are not the people I personally trust to lead Israel into such an event”. Former CIA officer Robert Baer joins us to discuss this latest broadside from Israel’s alarmed intelligence and military leaders.

Then we look into the growing dissent in China with the escape of a prominent dissident now believed to be holed up in the US embassy. China Expert Perry Link joins us. He edited the “Tiananmen Papers” that were leaked by a high level Chinese official and led to Perry Link being blacklisted by the Chinese government. We discuss this very public challenge to China’s police state on the eve of Secretary Clinton’s arrival for talks with the Chinese leadership.

Then finally we speak with Robert Draper, the author of a news-making new book about the current House of Representatives who are held at a record low level of disrepute, “Do Not Ask What Good We Do”. Among the revelations in the book, is a meeting that took place with Eric Cantor and other Republican leaders on the day of President Obama’s inauguration, where the participants plotted to destroy the newly sworn-in presidency.