This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined once again by Ken Klippenstein, a DC-based investigative reporter with The Intercept whose explosive work has appeared in The Daily Beast,The Young Turksand many other outlets. In his previous appearances, Ken has discussed his exclusive reportingon the Trump administration’s mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic and the importance of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)requests in revealing government misdeeds and corporate malfeasance.
This time Ken walks us through the implications of the recentSupreme Court decisionseverely weakening FOIA as well as the effect of the pandemic on transparency and his latest reporting on theFBI spying on Congressin the aftermath of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. The gang ends with a retrospective on Trump’s civil legacy on civil liberties, including his expansion of DHS andrecord number of whistleblowercrackdowns, and takes stock of where the intelligence apparatus is headed under Biden.
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