When John Wilkes Booth's diary was produced before a congressional committee in 1867, eighteen pages had been cut out of it. Marcus walks through the military tribunal the Supreme Court repudiated within a year and the second trial, on the same evidence, that ended in a hung jury. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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The author of the Bitcoin white paper wrote in the open for two years, handed over the code, and left behind roughly 1.1 million coins that have never moved. Marcus walks through the timestamps that place him in the wrong hemisphere and the single claim to the name that a court has actually ruled on. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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An Israeli-developed spyware platform sold to governments under counterterrorism representations has been documented on the phones of journalists, lawyers, and political opposition figures across multiple jurisdictions, including democracies. Marcus walks through the forensic record built by Citizen Lab and the 2021 Pegasus Project consortium, the Khashoggi context, and the structural reasons NSO Group's stated controls have produced no documented enforcement. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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Two of the three men convicted of assassinating Malcolm X spent fifty-five years in prison before the Manhattan District Attorney formally agreed with what the convicted gunman had testified to at the 1966 trial. Marcus walks through the Audubon Ballroom security failures, the informants present in the room, and what the 2021 vacatur surfaced about evidence withheld from the original defense. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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The Pentagon's official position on unidentified aerial phenomena changed materially in 2017, when a New York Times story confirmed the existence of a program the Department of Defense had previously declined to acknowledge. Marcus traces the disclosure process from AATIP through the 2023 congressional testimony, and examines what the institutional record now admits and what it still does not say. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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In March 1962, the Joint Chiefs of Staff transmitted a memorandum to the Secretary of Defense proposing staged terrorist attacks against American civilians as a pretext for war with Cuba. Marcus walks through what the memorandum proposed, who signed off on it, and why its 1997 declassification produced almost no public reckoning. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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Thousands of people share specific, detailed false memories of events that did not occur, a phenomenon documented across cultures and demographics. Marcus walks through the cognitive science, the cases that hold up under examination, and why the most popular explanation for it doesn't. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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A 1999 civil jury in Memphis found that Martin Luther King Jr.'s death resulted from a conspiracy involving government agencies — a verdict that received almost no national press coverage. Marcus examines the trial record, the FBI's documented campaign against King, and James Earl Ray's decades of denied requests for a full trial. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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The 2013 disclosures confirmed surveillance programs that senior intelligence officials had denied under oath to Congress. Marcus covers what the released documents established, what the subsequent legislation modified rather than ended, and what remains in place. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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