How Ford stood by ‘real friend’ Nixon

Unpub­lished tapes, doc­u­ments shed light on the deep rela­tion­ship between them
Bob Wood­wardWASHINGTON POST
Wash­ing­ton — Months before Richard Nixon set Michi­gan con­gress­man Ger­ald Ford on the path to the White House, Nixon turned to Ford, who called him­self the embat­tled president’s “only real friend,” to get him out of trou­ble.
Dur­ing one of the dark­est days of [...]

FTR #575 Interview with Robert Parry

Recorded Novem­ber 5, 2006
REALAUDIO

Once again, Mr. Emory inter­viewed Robert Parry, who runs the “Con­sor­tium News” web site. The last pro­gram recorded before the 2006 elec­tion, this broad­cast exam­ines how George W. Bush has actu­ally worked with, not against, Osama bin Laden. Begin­ning with analy­sis of a 2004 video­tape released just before the pres­i­den­tial elec­tion, the [...]

FTR #563 A Tale of Two Heroes

FBI Agent John O’Neill and his Lebanese-American col­league Ali Soufan’s unsuc­cess­ful efforts at inter­dict­ing Al Qaeda.

FTR #560 Economics 9/11

Recorded July 9, 2006
REALAUDIO

Ana­lyz­ing the eco­nomic impli­ca­tions of the events of 9/11, this pro­gram exam­ines sig­nif­i­cant areas of com­mon­al­ity between the polit­i­cal and eco­nomic forces con­trol­ling the Bush admin­is­tra­tion, as well as al-Qaeda and its par­ent orga­ni­za­tion the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood. The broad­cast begins with dis­cus­sion of the free-market eco­nomic phi­los­o­phy of the Mus­lim Brotherhood—a philosophy [...]

The Agent

Did the C.I.A. stop an F.B.I. detec­tive from pre­vent­ing 9/11?
by Lawrence Wright
On Octo­ber 12, 2000, in the deep-water port of Aden, Yemen, the U.S.S. Cole, a guided-missile destroyer weigh­ing eighty-three hun­dred tons, was docked at a fuelling buoy. The Cole, which cost a bil­lion dol­lars to build, was one of the most “sur­viv­able” ships in the [...]

FTR #554 Conversation with Daniel Hopsicker

Doc­u­ment­ing the career of Makram Chams.

FTR #541 Leaks

Recorded Febrary 12, 2006
REALAUDIO
A major rea­son for George W. Bush’s decline in pub­lic opin­ion polls is the dam­age to his rep­u­ta­tion done by dam­ag­ing dis­clo­sures about his con­duct of the war in Iraq and his pur­suit of Al Qaeda. In this broad­cast, we exam­ine indi­ca­tions that many of these dis­clo­sures have been delib­er­ately leaked in [...]

God’s Senator

Who would Jesus vote for? Meet Sam Brownback

At the Vet­er­ans Day parade in Empo­ria, Kansas
Nobody in this lit­tle church just off Times Square in Man­hat­tan thinks of them­selves as polit­i­cal. They’re spir­i­tual — actors and ath­letes and pretty young things who believe that every word of the Bible is inerrant dictation [...]

FTR #529 Nazi Roots and Fascist Flowers

Recorded Octo­ber 9, 2005
REALAUDIO

This broad­cast details some of the fruits that have been borne by the col­lab­o­ra­tion between ele­ments of U.S. intel­li­gence and Nazi and fas­cist groups from World War II. Begin­ning with dis­cus­sion of the Ukrain­ian fas­cist OUN/B and its affil­i­ated orga­ni­za­tion the ABN (Anti-Bolshevik League of Nations), the pro­gram high­lights the posi­tion of [...]

FTR #528 Interview with Daniel Hopsicker About the Gus Boulis Murder

Recorded Octo­ber 2, 2005
REALAUDIO
Fea­tur­ing more of the land­mark research of Daniel Hop­sicker, this pro­gram fits another piece of infor­ma­tion into the jig­saw puz­zle of Mohamed Atta’s activ­i­ties in Florida in the run-up to the 9/11 attacks. A self-professed Navy Seal took a Venice (Florida) cab-driving job, pos­si­bly to spy on Atta and asso­ciates. In addition, [...]