{"id":2305,"date":"2014-12-02T07:06:37","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T12:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2305"},"modified":"2014-12-02T07:06:37","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T12:06:37","slug":"talking-to-james-risen-about-pay-any-price-the-war-on-terror-and-press-freedoms-the-intercept-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2305","title":{"rendered":"Talking to James Risen About Pay Any Price, the War on Terror and Press Freedoms &#8211; The Intercept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/firstlook.org\/theintercept\/2014\/11\/25\/talking-james-risen-pay-price-war-terror-press-freedoms\/\">Talking to James Risen About Pay Any Price, the War on Terror and Press Freedoms &#8211; The Intercept<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 28px 0px;\">James Risen, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005 for\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #df3f3d; text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/12\/16\/politics\/16program.html?pagewanted=all\">exposing<\/a>\u00a0the NSA warrantless eavesdropping program, has long been one of the nation\u2019s most aggressive and adversarial\u00a0investigative journalists. Over the past several years, he has received at least as much attention for being\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #df3f3d; text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/06\/02\/james-risen-supreme-court-rejected_n_5431338.html\">threatened with prison<\/a>\u00a0by the Obama Justice Department (ostensibly) for refusing to reveal the source of one of his stories\u2014a\u00a0persecution\u00a0that, in reality, is\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #df3f3d; text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2011\/06\/23\/risen_3\/\">almost certainly<\/a>\u00a0the vindictive by-product of the U.S. government\u2019s anger over his NSA reporting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 28px 0px;\">He has published a new book on the War on Terror entitled\u00a0<em style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;\"><a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #df3f3d; text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Pay-Any-Price-Greed-Endless\/dp\/0544341414\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1416948975&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=risen+pay+any+price\">Pay Any Price: Greed, Power and Endless War<\/a><\/em>. There have been lots of critiques of the War on Terror on its own terms, but Risen\u2019s is one of the first to offer large amounts of original reporting on what is almost certainly the most overlooked aspect of this war: the role corporate profiteering plays in ensuring its endless continuation, and how the beneficiaries use rank fear-mongering to sustain it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 28px 0px;\"><a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #df3f3d; text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;\" href=\"https:\/\/prod01-cdn01.cdn.firstlook.org\/wp-uploads\/sites\/1\/2014\/11\/risen.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-article-medium wp-image-9106\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-background-clip: padding-box; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; background-clip: padding-box; max-width: 100%; height: auto !important; margin: 0px 0px 28px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"https:\/\/prod01-cdn02.cdn.firstlook.org\/wp-uploads\/sites\/1\/2014\/11\/risen-540x297.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 28px 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talking to James Risen About Pay Any Price, the War on Terror and Press Freedoms &#8211; The Intercept. James Risen, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005 for\u00a0exposing\u00a0the NSA warrantless eavesdropping program, has long been one of the nation\u2019s most aggressive and adversarial\u00a0investigative journalists. Over the past several years, he has received at least as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1567,577,864],"class_list":["post-2305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-james-risen","tag-nsa","tag-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2306,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions\/2306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}