The Journey 189: Corruption 101 with John Loftus and Dan Luzadder – A Continuing Education

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Kris Millegan and Todd Baumann speak to John Loftus and Dan Luzadder about the realities of corruption in government and the press.

John Loftus is the author of America's Nazi Secret among several other books, and his new upcoming book My Client's Were Spies about his time as an attorney for sources in the Intelligence Community hoping to get more information about certain events in American history declassified, like he had done with the material on OPERATION PAPERCLIP in the 1980s, which produced an appearance on 60 Minutes in 1982 that was nominated for an Emmy award.

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Dan Luzadder is an American journalist and author whose lengthy newspaper career began as a teenaged police reporter in the last days of linotypes. He came of age amid hagiographic newsroom characters who believed shoe leather reporting, tight deadlines and well-placed sources were journalism’s divinity. He has written for the New York Daily News and the New York Times, shared a Pulitzer Prize (1983) for general local reporting, won a national public service award from the American Bar Association for exposing corruption in federal courts, and is a member of the Scripps Howard Journalism Hall of Fame. He resides with his wife, Nancy, in the Pacific Northwest. He is the author of The Manchurian Journalist: Lawrence Wright, the CIA and the Corruption of American Journalism. (Trine Day). He is currently at work on a book and investigative documentary series on a cold-case crime spree in Speedway, Indiana in 1978, and is completing a book exploring the American myth of Al Capone.

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The Journey 188. Bill Conroy: A Tour Through the Boneyard of the CIA's War for Drugs

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In this video, Kris and Todd speak to Bill Conroy, author of The Great Pretense: A Tour Through the Boneyard of the CIA's War for Drugs available now at Trineday.com: https://trineday.com/products/the-great-pretense-a-tour-through-the-boneyards-of-the-cia-s-war-for-drugs As always like and subscribe, and be sure to share far and wide!

The Great Pretense: A Tour Through the Boneyard of the CIA’s War for Drugs offers readers a journey to the boneyards of the CIA's “war for drugs” in Latin America and beyond, with all of its complexities and moral dilemmas. Conroy’s book, part memoir and part exposé and thriller, is based on Conroy’s lived experience over decades of reporting on national security and the illegal drug trade. It emphasizes the vital role of authentic journalism in a landscape marked with manipulation and deceit by powerful entities, such as the CIA.

The book highlights the challenges of investigating the intricate relationship between intelligence operations, law enforcers and narco-traffickers. The book also reveals, with evidence, how the CIA operates in the drug war — against other U.S. agencies, or with them, and in ignoring or even enabling cartel drug trafficking — all in pursuit of intelligence-gathering and other opaque national security goals.

Conroy’s 40-year journalism career has focused heavily on investigative reporting — as an editor-in-chief, managing editor and reporter. His work has been published online and in print for a range of publications, including daily newspapers; alternative and business weeklies; magazines; and national online publications, such as the Daily Beast, Narco News and HousingWire. He also have appeared in investigative documentaries aired by major networks, including the BBC, CNBC, the History Channel, Prime Video and Al Jazeera-Europe.

CIA assets and spies must be adept at carrying out illegal deeds overseas and then covering their tracks. That’s because the CIA is breaking laws in any foreign nation in which it conducts espionage or other covert operations. CIA brass, by contrast, must concoct a public image and press narrative that conceals or deflects attention from that underlying illegal clandestine reality. It's spy culture. It keeps the gears of “The Great Pretense” in motion.

The Journey 187. Ari Ben-Menashe on Current Events, 3/5/26

The Journey 187. Ari Ben-Menashe on Current Events, 3/5/26 This podcast episode featured a discussion between Robert, Todd, and Ari Ben Menashi (Dickens) about the Iran-Israel relationship and current geopolitical tensions. Ari, an Iranian Jew who previously worked in Israel's Prime Minister's office, provided historical context explaining how Israel and Iran were allies from 1979-1992 during the Iran-Iraq war, before relations deteriorated due to Israeli-Saudi financial incentives. The conversation covered how Jeffrey Epstein's connections to Israeli intelligence figure into current US-Iran tensions, with Ari suggesting the recent Iran strikes may be a distraction from Epstein-related revelations. The discussion also touched on the complex dynamics between Zionist and anti-Zionist Jewish communities, potential leadership scenarios in Iran, and the geopolitical implications of the current conflict, particularly regarding China-Iran relations.

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