America and the West's Political Prisoner Problem

Published: May 19, 2017, 6:55 p.m.

"By Any Means Necessary" host Eugene Puryear is joined by Barrett Brown, award winning journalist, to talk about Sweden's dropping of charges against Wikileak founder Julian Assange, the long vindication of Chelsea Manning, the diversity of the US deep state, and whether or not Republicans for the first time will question the efficacy of the FBI. The pair also talk about Brown's degenerate approach towards his political activism, the need for the CIA and US intelligence community to stop making malware, whether Silicon Valley elites will ever care about their customers, efforts to think global organizing, and the ill-state of the US news cycle.