The first 30 minutes are with Mike Gravel, on how a member of congress should release the full 6000+ page report on torture to the public. The next half hour is me, Rob Kall, solo, doing an

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Mike Gravel talking about release of the abbreviated Senate Select Intelligence committee report on torture

Diane Feinstein and Jay Rockefeller did a service in pursuing this.

Release of the summary was momentous.

Hope, before January 3rd that they release the entire report

Republicans withdrew their staff from o oversight.

Constitutional responsibility of the congress to inform the people.

Intelligence committee only partially informed the public/

Rob: Why do you think they're not doing it?

if Diane Feinstein released the entire report she'd be doing her job.

If another member of congress released it there's no risk in that.

Supreme court ruled that he had ever right under the constitution to release whatever secrets he felt should be made public.

Udall could release it and not suffer any consequences.

Rob: do you think that if you were brought before the supreme court with the same situation today they would react the same way?

Rob: what's the substance of the speech and debate clause.

Rob: so, can the CIA or NSA or any other secret organization stop a member of congress from talking about any of their activities?

Rob: So there's no way that one of the secret agencies can accuse someone of treason?

CIA had spied on senate staff activities--

Rob: was it illegal

of course it was illegal for them to do that. They should be prosecuted.

Rob: If you were in the senate now, how would you be handling this situation?

I would have released them immediately.

It would show the world that not all Americans are hypocrites.

Rob: NSA knows about everyone-- members of congress and their nephews and brothers in law-- everyone knows someone who has something to hide who they will want to protect.

I am not all that optimistic about how power is distributed in the congress.

Rob: what do you mean you are not optimistic about how power is distributed in the congress.

Rob: if you were still in the senate what would you do about the lies (Brennan, etc.)

One person who has been great on it has been Bernie Sanders, but he's only one person.

Rob: these liars were under the direction and supervision of Obama"?

Rob: Is it an inability or a conscious choice not to do it ( prosecute liars to congress)

It's a conscious choice.

Rob: You're a Democrat, but you're very critical of Obama.

Yes.

whistleblowers, Chelsea Manning,

Going after Wikileaks and Assange, then going after Snowden-- What Snowden did is what the members of the intelligence committee should have done.

Rob: Have you contacted any members of the senate?

The intelligence committee took up.

Rob: what would you say to a member of congress?

Rob: anything else you want to say about this issue?

Rob: I just read that you're involved with Marijuana

Kush Cannabis Sativa Inc. CBDS publicly traded

Cubby lozenge-- patented strain to be marketed through a lozenge-- more effective as

Rob: And what's your position there

president and CEO of Kush-- a subsidiary

Rob: you have a history of advocacy for legalization of marijuana. Can you talk about that?

Authors Bio:

Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.

Check out his platform at RobKall.com

He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity

He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
opinion sites, OpEdNews.com

more detailed bio:

Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, debillionairizing the planet and the Psychopathy Defense and Optimization Project.

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Rob was published regularly on the Huffingtonpost.com for several years.

Rob is, with Opednews.com the first media winner of the Pillar Award for supporting Whistleblowers and the first amendment.

To learn more about Rob and OpEdNews.com, check out A Voice For Truth - ROB KALL | OM Times Magazine and this article.

For Rob's work in non-political realms mostly before 2000, see his C.V.. and here's an article on the Storycon Summit Meeting he founded and organized for eight years.

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