Loud & Clear

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Kevin Gosztola, writer and co-host of the podcast Unauthorized Disclosure and Paul Wright, the founder and executive director of the Human Rights Defense Center. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has rescinded Obama-era guidance to state courts that was meant to end debtors prisons. The Supreme Court already has called such institutions “unconstitutional.” The war against the poor keeps going, but did it ever really slow down?National Security Agency head Admiral Mike Rogers will retire this spring, according to a classified memo that was leaked to the press. It’s a fitting end to Rogers’s four-year tenure. We talk about the rise of the National Surveillance state and the US government’s war against whistleblowers. Kirk Wiebe, a former NSA senior analyst and renowned national security whistleblower, joins the show.The Trump Administration announced today that it will expel as many as 260,000 El Salvadorans who were granted tem