Most recently, Kucinich conducted an exclusive interview with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to discuss the allegations of the use of chemical weapons alongside FNC's Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent Greg Palkot.
For 16 years, Kucinich served as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Ohio, representing Ohio's 10th congressional district from 1997 to Jan. 2013.
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interesting and long career in government and Democratic politics .
He was the true conscience on foreign wars and US shenanigans while in Office.
He still is 100% honest and straight shooting..
Dennis Kucinich: I'm no fan of Trump's but he's got a point about wiretapping
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017...umps-but-hes-got-point-about-wiretapping.html
...At the time
I was leading efforts in the House to challenge the Obama administration’s war against Libya. The
Qaddafi government reached out to me because its appeals to the White House and the State Department to forestall the escalating aggression had gone unanswered.
Before taking the call, I checked with the House’s general counsel to ensure that such a discussion by a member of Congress with a foreign power was permitted by law.
I was assured that under the Constitution a lawmaker had a fundamental duty to ask questions and gather information—
activity expressly protected by the Article I clauses covering separation of powers and congressional speech and debate. I could and did ask questions of the younger Mr. Qaddafi.
On the Libyan end, the risk of the conversation was that whatever phone was used to call my office might serve as a homing beacon for a drone strike.
Somehow, the Washington Times had gotten its hands on the surreptitious recording. I authenticated the conversation, and parts of it were published by the newspaper, which provided online links where readers could listen to me talking with Mr. Qaddafi.
The reporters did not say, nor did I ask,
who had made the tape. But the paper’s stories referenced “secret audio recordings recovered from Tripoli.”
I have only
my suspicions about their true provenance. The
quality of the recordings was excellent on both ends of the call.
If sources had indeed discovered the tapes in Tripoli, there is no plausible explanation for how they would have chosen the Washington Times to carry the story. And which foreign intelligence service conceivably could have been interested in my phone call, had the technology to intercept it, and then wanted to leak it to the newspaper?
There’s a simpler explanation:
I believe the tape was made by an American intelligence agency and then leaked to the Times for political reasons. If so, this episode represented
a gross violation of the separation of powers.
Shortly after the Times story was published, I alerted congressional leaders to the breach and then let the matter rest,
assuming that a series of routine Freedom of Information Act requests I had made in 2012 before leaving office would provide answers.