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We begin with the explosive expose by veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh that challenges the official White House story of the SEAL’s raid into Pakistan that killed Osama Bin Laden. Veteran CIA operations officer Robert Baer joins us to discuss the new information that Seymour Hersh has revealed in his article at The London Review of Books “The Killing of Osama bin Laden” and we replay some of an interview I did shortly after President Obama’s announcement that Bin Laden was dead on May 2, 2011 with a very skeptical Robert Baer who outlines a scenario almost identical to the one that Seymour Hersh just published.

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Then we look further into the possibility that Pakistan’s military intelligence service the ISI was sheltering Bin Laden and that someone on the inside walked into the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad with the embarrassing truth to claim the $25 million reward. Shuja Nawaz, a Senior Scholar at the South Asia Center at the Atlantic Council and author of “Crossed Swords: Pakistan, its Army, and the Wars Within” joins us to discuss what he finds credible about the new information about the killing of Bin Laden and what he doesn’t.

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Then finally we examine the conditional approval the White House has given to Shell Oil to drill for oil in the Arctic waters off Alaska this summer. Lois Epstein, the Arctic Program Director for The Wilderness Society who serves on the Ocean Energy Safety Advisory Committee for the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement joins to discuss her concerns and her article at Alaska Dispatch News “Shell hasn’t earned enough trust to drill in Alaska’s Arctic seas”.

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We begin with the elections in the U.K. and speak with James Cronin, a Professor of History at Boston College and the Chair of the British Study Group at Harvard University. He joins us from London with the latest results from exit polls that indicate a surprise win for the conservatives and a big loss for Labor who appear unlikely they have enough seats to form a coalition with the Scottish Nationalists who came in third and have gained seats at Labor’s expense.

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Then we speak with Marc Rotenberg, the President and Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington D.C. and the Chair of the American Bar Association’s Committee on Privacy and Information Protection. He joins us to discuss a federal appeals court ruling that finds a provision of the U.S.A. Patriot Act known as Section 215 cannot be interpreted by the NSA to allow bulk collection of domestic phone records of American citizens.

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Then finally with Greece’s finance minister insisting they will make Tuesday’s payment to the IMF of 763 million Euros even as Greece is reportedly running out of money, we speak with James Galbraith a professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Policy at the University of Texas and the author of The End of Normal. He is a colleague of Greece’s finance minister and with European finance ministers convening an emergency meeting on Monday, we examine what it mean when Greece says it will stick to its “red line” electoral promises.