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.[citation needed] He has testified on numerous occasions before the US Congress.[citation needed]

Madsen edits the Wayne Madsen Report, 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.

Madsen also hosts a radio show on the largely Internet-based radio station "We The People Radio Network" [2], broadcast every Tuesday from 7-9pm CST. Other hosts on the network include prominent members of the 9/11 Truth Movement including Alex Jones and Kevin Barrett.

His expertise has been sought for news programs the world over, some of which have been posted on youtube.

[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] Bibliography

  • 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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