An investigative reporter who has won awards for her work in print, television and radio, Kristina Borjesson is internationally known for blowing the whistle on US mainstream journalism outlets for censoring the truth on major stories and for being purveyors of false official-source narratives. She created THE WHISTLEBLOWER NEWSROOM show as a platform for and about whistleblowers, for conveying inconvenient truths and for presenting thought-provoking voices on urgent issues—national and international--to her audience.
Episodes
Friday Jan 29, 2021
Friday Jan 29, 2021
GUANTANAMO DETAINEE ABU ZUBAYDAH AND THE U.S. TORTURE PROGRAM: STILL PAYING A BRUTAL PRICE FOR EMBARRASSING THE GOVERNMENT? Zubaydah’s lawyer, Mark Denbeaux details the nightmare his client has lived for almost twenty years as the detainee around which President Bush authorized the creation of the U.S. government’s torture program. After torturing Zubaydah extensively, the government revealed that he was not the high-value al Qaeda terrorist and close bin Laden associate Bush publicly said he was; in fact, he wasn’t al Qaeda at all. Nonetheless, Zubaydah is still being held at Guantanamo with no end in sight to his incarceration.