Interviewing Greg Palast on Wednesday...questions?

[dpakman91]

Ideas for questions?

This is who i'm interviewing:

Greg Palast - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Here are some SAMPLE questions that were sent to me:

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GREG PALAST

ARMED MADHOUSE





A memo recently found in Karl Rove's office gloats that no US press has picked up your BBC investigations? What was Karl worried about?

[Hint: The elections caging lists.]





Your book already has the inside story of the firing of the US prosecutors by Attorney General Gonzales. What happened there?

[Iglesias of New Mexico.]





You tell us the the 2008 election has already been stolen? How would you know that?

[I broke the theft story of 2000 - here's the '08 tricks already in operation.]





In Britain, where you work for BBC Television, you're considered the top investigative reporter -- but your stories don't appear in the USA? Why?

[Upcoming LA Times op-ed: Death of Investigative Reporting in the USA.]





For BBC, you got the US State Departments secret plans for Iraq's oil? How did you get your hands on THAT? And what's so important about it?

[Undercover work, secret recordings: and the real invisible hands guiding the war.]





WHY are we still in Iraq?





Hugo Chavez, the President of Venezuela is a big fan of yours. You know him. Is he some kind of dangerous nut and dictator?

[Crazy like a fox.]





In the investigating in New Orleans for the new edition of your book, you were charged by the Department of Homeland security with violating anti-terror laws. What was THAT all about? And what really happened with the levees in New Orleans?

[the untold story of New Orleans.]

[Thorgrim]

how can Democrats, the netroots specifically, catch the GOP in the act come 2008 or prevent them from doing what they did in 2000 and 2004

[dpakman91]

Originally Posted by Thorgrim

how can Democrats, the netroots specifically, catch the GOP in the act come 2008 or prevent them from doing what they did in 2000 and 2004

sounds good, this will likely be a question during the interview.

[dpakman91]

anybody else? this is tonight

[thatguyoverthere]

How about a sticky explaining what this sectionis about, and when and where we can hear this show?

[avsp]

damn i'm too late, ..., if the chance ever occurs again ask him if he as any good Paxman stories. Its a bit liteweight i know but we live in a celebrity age etc