- Borzou Daragahi, Beriut bureau chief, Los Angeles Times
- David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and author of Free Lunch
- Craig Robinson, head men's basketball coach at Oregon State University and Michele Obama's brother
- Daniel Choi, Knights Out
From the Web:
- Borzou Daragahi's Borzou.com
- Borzou Daragahi: Obama overture elicits cautious response from Iran
- Laura Rozen, reporter for "Foreign Policy" magazine
- Greg Sargent, The Plum Line Blog on WhoRunsGov.com
- Senator Mark Begich, D-Alaska
- Dan Choi, a founding member of the "Knights Out" organization
From the Web:
- Laura Rozen blogs at The Cable
- Greg Sargent: Happy Hour Roundup: Explaining House GOP Leadership’s No Vote On AIG
- Greg Sargent: Another Blue Dog Dem Confirms He’ll Vote Against Employee Free Choice
- West Point LGBT alumni group offers support to alma mater
- Because some viewers weren't quite ready to record the URL of KNCA, the propaganda arm of Kim Jong-Il's government when Rachel read it Thursday night, it's KCNA.co.jp.
- David Weidner, Wall Street columnist for Marketwatch
- New York Times foreign correspondent Dexter Filkins
- Larry Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell
- Chad Lindsey, actor and subway hero
From the Web:
- Dexter Filkins: The Progress in Iraq is Remarkable
- Dexter Filkins: My Long War
Dexter Filkins: Afghanistan and Iraq - What If? - Guest Post by Lawrence Wilkerson: Some Truths About Guantanamo Bay
- Chad Lindsey on IMDB
- Only a few shows left to see Chad Lindsey in KASPAR HAUSER: a foundling's opera
- Chad Lindsey's side biz: Fresh Eggs
- Senator Ron Wyden
- Foreign affairs journalist Mark Danner
- Former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel
- David Kilcullen, counterinsurgency expert and author of “The Accidental Guerilla”
- The King of Cocktails, master mixologist Dale DeGroff
From the Web:
- Mark Danner: US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites
- Mark Danner: Tales from Torture's Dark World
- Mark Danner: The Truth of El Mozote
- David Kilcullen: Can we defeat the Taliban?
- Dale DeGroff's Irish Coffee
- Congressman Barney Frank, Democratic chairman of the House Financial Services Committee
- Lawrence O'Donnell, MSNBC political analyst
- John Nagl, a veteran of both Gulf Wars who retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in Army, now president of the Center for a New American Security
- Paul Rieckhoff, founder and executive director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
From the Web:
- Paul Rieckhoff: Show Us the Money: Iraq Veterans React to the VA Budget
- John Nagl: Surge In Afghanistan Can Work, With Right Resources, Enough Time
- John Nagl: How not to lose in Afghanistan
