magnolia, texas on our independent line. caller: how can the country be so free was so many spies and classified orders? let me give you a scenario. what about all the recruits from al qaeda who came over on 9/11? if you were captured or tortured tell them that we're working we'resaddam over there in iraq and he has -- tell them that we're working with saddam and that he has wmd's. maybe that is why they will not tell us the information. host: was their release of classified -- was there an increase of classified information in the bush administration? guest: yes, by nearly and than 10 million range annually up to more than 20 million. some of that -- the bush administration is not strictly responsible for because some of it reflects the creation of new secrets in electronic form which tend to grow more quickly than paper documents do. what is true is that secrecy increased dramatically during the bush administration and with tremendous adverse consequences in areas of the decision to go to war, questions of warrantless surv

howard's business, the magnolia mutual life insurance company. while selling insurance, medgar wood encouraged people to register to vote. while dr. howard started out as a poor sign of tobacco twisters in murray, kentucky, howard leaves behind a legacy, a legacy of self-help, individualism, and the idea that success is yours. you have to create it. in creating he created businesses like -- and these businesses are in mount bayou mississippi. mount bayou, mississippi, is an all-black community since shortly after the civil war. he created the green parrot inn and an olympic size swimming pool, the first in the state for blacks, a medical center he called the friendship clinic. and not to mention which david will some of the other works he did here in chicago. people who knew h@úuÑ3Ñ became a prominent surgeon and civil rights leader and entrepreneur. now, if anyone would qualify as a renaissance man in black history i think it would have to be trm howard or he would have to be high on the list. he was not only one of the wealthiest blacks in miss