"Former".
Thankfully.

The Glenn Beck interview doesn't give us enough information to judge this guy thoroughly. One needs to go back and review all the interviews he has done to find out what he is really about. There are many youtubes with interviews from all sides of political ideologies. Please review them all without regard for your preconceived ideology.

Having made an effort to review these, I am laying out a number of important issues to decipher for all the reader of this blog for purpose that we can all make informed judgments.

First, he is a strong proponent of the rendition program. Second, he takes a very critical view of the Clinton thru Obama administration's war stance. Specifically, he believes strongly that we never took the Bin Laden threat seriously and ignored intelligence that many times could have captured him and his operatives. He states that there was a 911 commission coverup because of extreme negligence of those in Clinton and Bush Administration. He states that the CIA was correct to destroy the tape evidence they had to protect our inside knowledge of terrorist activities. Third, he takes the non-interventionist view of our foreign policy. In his view, we have no obligation to Israel or supporting democracy throughout the world. Fourth, he states we are not willing to commit enough dollars into "killing enough people that need to be killed". (Not sure exactly what that means but it seems to me it is in direct conflict with his non-interventionist view).
Fifth, he claims the evidence that Bin Laden is really dead based on the non-related video of Bhutto speaking on political unrest in Pakistan then her assassination a week later is false. He states something about Blair needing to remove her from a political situation in Pakistan in which she wasn't prepared.

Lastly, he is trying to sell his new book. Perhaps that is the reason for his many interviews and making shocking, controversial statements. Outside of the publicity, I am not sure there is any purpose for him making his statement as he did. His combination neo-con & libertarian combined with pro-rendition, anti-war but self-determination of who should be indiscriminately killed is tough to reconcile all the contradictions.

I'm not sure what people were expecting. After all, when two wackos pool their views, we're lucky that they didn't reach critical mass. Hell, we could have lost a part of a large metropolitan area (which of course Dick Cheney would have blamed on Obama's choice of a White House pet ;-)

OCU

OBL has been dead for about 5-7 years.