Wayne Madsen

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Wayne Madsen is a Washington, D.C.-based investigative journalist, author, and syndicated columnist. His articles have appeared in The Village Voice, Wired, and CounterPunch.

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[edit] Career

Madsen was a Senior Fellow of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.[1] He was a communications security analyst with the National Security Agency in the 1980s, and an intelligence officer in the US Navy. He has testified on numerous occasions before the US Congress.

Wayne Madsen edits the Wayne Madsen Report[2] which he describes as following in the tradition of Drew Pearson's and Jack Anderson's famous "Washington Merry-Go-Round" syndicated column and columns by I.F. Stone.

Wayne Madsen hosts a radio show on the largely Internet-based radio station "We The People Radio Network [3], broadcast every Tuesday from 7-9pm CST. Other hosts on the network include prominent "conspiracy theorists" and members of the 9/11 Truth Movement including Alex Jones and Dr. Kevin Barrett.

[edit] Involvement with 9/11 Truth

Madsen is a member of the 9/11 Truth Movement in that he subscribes to the opinion that elements within the Bush administration either let the September 11 attacks happen, or made them happen on purpose.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Cyberterrorism: Regional and Local Response Panelists – Wayne Madsen
  2. ^ Wayne Madsen Report
  3. ^ We The People Radio Network

[edit] Recommended reading

  • Jaded Tasks--Brass Plates, Black Ops & Big Oil: The Blood Politics of Bush & Co. (TrineDay, 2006) ISBN 0-9752906-9-X
  • America's Nightmare: The Presidency of George Bush II with John Stanton (Dandelion Books, 2003) ISBN 1893302296
  • Forbidden Truth: U.S.-Taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy, Saudi Arabia and the Failed Search for bin Laden (foreword) Jean-Charles Brisard, Guillaume Dasquie (Nation Books, 2002) ISBN 1560254149
  • Genocide and Covert Operations in Africa 1993-1999 (African Studies) (Edwin Mellen Press, 1999) ISBN 0773480021
  • Handbook of Personal Data Protection (Grove's Dictionaries, 1992) ISBN 1561590460


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