me and me right there when i would be able to comment i know you have it with after some time mrs shoshana was interrogated by an f.b.i. agent and she eventually learned that she was removed from the plane because of her ethnic first name and her seat assigned she'd been seated between two men who were described by flight attendants as possibly of arab descent she didn't know that those men had gone to the restroom a few times during the flight. they too are american citizens of indian descent but in our post nine eleven fear frenzy whipped up by george w. bush and dick cheney the simple act of using the bathroom while arab looking is enough to get you dragged off a plane a gunpoint and under the patriot act it's completely justifiable for federal agents armed to the teeth to spring into action and drag you because of whoever sitting next to you off the plane strip you naked and put you in a jail cell indefinitely without a phone call without a right to a lawyer and without any information whatsoever about why you are being detained and they can legally keep you there for the rest of your

its freaking mind in this never went ending war on terrorism joining me now to tell her story is shoshana have she's a journalist and mother of twins who is the latest victim in our nightmarish national war on terror shoshana welcome to the show thanks so much for coming on. thanks for having me so let's start at the beginning describe to the audience what happened to you on september eleventh two thousand and eleven. i was flying back home from a trip to san francisco to visit my sister and friends. i had a layover in denver and everything was normal. and when we landed in detroit. the plane that for y.-o. didn't go to the gate and then it moved to a different part of the airport where away from the buildings and we were told to stay in our seat. we noticed. police looking vehicle back to the side of the plane and nobody was telling us what was going on. and then all of a sudden. the. agent three please i don't know who it was stormed the plane told everybody to put their hands up on the seat in front of them had down and then came down the aisle stopped at my row and told me and the two

the service of hundreds of thousands of american women in combat including tremendous women like shoshana johnson, the first african-american prisoner of war and tammy duckworth who lost both her legs serving in combat. this truly validates and vindicates everything that all of these brave women have done serving their country in the past decade. >> the last thing i'll say is that good leaders make good units. it doesn't matter what the policies are. it you're a bad leader it doesn't matter if the policy makes sense and it's not going get it. a good leader will make a good unit and this is no different. a good leader will change things. >> very quickly, before i let you get out of here, the repeal of don't ask, don't tell. the women permitted to serve in combat roles and what's next for the u.s. military in term of equal rights and civil rights. the biggest issue is what role the military will have in defending the country at a time when our enemies are fragmented everywhere and it requires very well-educated people and i think the next big thing is in my view is universal service. we're

need than to look at someone like tammy duckworth who comes home missing her legs or someone like a shoshananson, who was a p.o.w., or someone like a jessica lynch, who was shot in the heels of her feet. so i don't know how much more formal recognition you need that women are doing the job today. >> women have to volunteer for combat duty and face the same physical standards that men do. is that an issue or not an issue at all? >> you know, i went through boot camp back in 1987. my former husband attempted to go through boot camp that very same year. he did not graduate from boot camp and was returned home not a marine. i on the other hand did complete boot camp and did rise to the challenge.

need than to look at someone like tammy duckworth who comes home missing her legs or someone like a shoshananson, who was a p.o.w., or someone like a jessica lynch, who was shot in the heels of her feet. so i don't know how much more formal recognition you need that women are doing the job today. >> women have to volunteer for combat duty and face the same physical standards that men do. is that an issue or not an issue at all? >> you know, i went through boot camp back in 1987. my former husband attempted to go through boot camp that very same year. he did not graduate from boot camp and was returned home not a marine. i on the other hand did complete boot camp and did rise to the challenge. i do believe that the standards for infantry should be high. they should not be relaxed. but if a woman can meet the physical and mental challenges of serving on the front line then she darn well ought to be able to serve on the front line, be recognized, be promoted, and be paid for it. >> some conservatives are saying that they're concerned because if women were to become captives that they would be p

but my nomination for 2012's most awkward setting was shoshana walsh, who scored a really fascinating interview with the former house majority leader dick armey. she scored that interview while mr. armey was doing this -- >> stroke, stroke. >> okay, slow down. >> what you are looking at here, what this is a combination workout routine and video game that is called wii fit. it's a video game system that can track your movements, and it encourages those movements through the competitive gaming instruction. so you not only have a fun time playing video games, you are moving around, and so you get sweaty while you are doing it. it was while doing a wii fit workout that dick armey spoke with abc's shoshanna walsh and explained why he did bring a guy with a gun to freedom works to try to mound a coup to take over the organization, he does not want that to be seen as him mounting an armed coup to take over freedom works. we knew that dick armey was leaving the supposedly grassroots tea party group freedomworks. we knew he was getting paid $8 million to leave that group. we knew that thing ab