Homeland security

Guest host Mark Thompson, author David Cay Johnston, "The War Room" contributor Brett Erlich, Ana Kasparian and Jayar Jackson discuss whether there's any validity to comparisons between President Obama and former President Nixon in the wake of recent White House [...]

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“Obama has indicted more people under the Espionage Act than all U.S. presidents combined.” —Jesselyn Radack

"Sometimes it takes a perpetual warmonger who's been wrong about everything to unilaterally ignore the U.N. and world opinion, guarantee the safety of all U.S. troops in a hostile civil war, and still find time to vet every single Syrian [...]

"The levels of irony, mixed with a toxic cocktail of hypocrisy and ignorance and a hubris chaser, proved too much and led to irony hanging itself in grief." —John Fugelsang

Cenk Uygur, David Sirota, Glenn Greenwald and Michael Hastings debate how seriously Americans should take claims that every citizen is constantly being recorded.

"Just one pill in the morning gives you that sense of righteous false equivalency, with none of the pesky awareness that you’re actually exploiting four tragic American deaths." —John Fugelsang

Daisy Khan, the executive director of the American Society for Muslim Advancement, tells "Say Anything!" host Joy Behar what might cause someone to become radicalized and turn toward acts of terror such as planting a homemade bomb at the finish [...]

Retired Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to Colin Powell during the Bush administration, calls out President Obama for claiming he wants to close the Guantanamo Bay prison but not taking any significant action to get it done.

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“If Gitmo detainees were transferred to the United States, they’d be in the most secure federal institutions ... on the planet.” —Adam Serwer