Before we get into tonight’s lineup for The
Independents, your very favorite new cable news
program, let’s run a clip from last night’s episode, featuring
Reason Senior Editor Jacob Sullum breaking down Judge Richard
Leon’s
historic ruling yesterday that the National Security Agency’s
metadata-collection program is maybe-probably unconstitutional:
Tonight features more discussion about the NSA, vis-a-vis
President Barack Obama’s
meeting today with the nation’s top technology CEOs, who are
p-i-s-s-e-d about how the federal government conscripts them
into the surveillance state. Also to be chewed on by
paneistsl Jehmu Greene
and Todd
Starnes is the annual “Wastebook” list
of ridiculous government spending compiled by Sen. Tom Coburn
(R-Oklahoma).
Other topics: Former Sen. Bob Graham (D-Florida) will explain
why he’s trying to declassify 28 (presumably Saudi-implicating)
pages of the 9/11 Commission report. Also, people all over the damn
country are buying Mega Millions lottery tickets, hoping to win
a half-billion dollars; can we blame government? And:
Obama totally trolls the Russian government by
declining a presidential or vice-presidential visit to the
Sochi Winter Olympics opening ceremony, and sending in his
stead Billie
Jean effing King. There will also be talk about New York’s
proposed ban on e-cigarettes, the new class of
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees, and more.
That’s tonight live at 9 pm ET on Fox Business Network, with
your host Kennedy, plus
co-hosts Matt
Welch and Kmele Foster. Tweet
at @IndependentsFBN
(#independents), and/or comment right here!
from Hit & Run http://reason.com/blog/2013/12/17/tonight-on-the-independents-911-censorsh
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