Aaron Klein’s WABC Radio show experienced what the host called a “tech meltdown”

 Aaron Klein’s WABC Radio show experienced what the host called a “tech meltdown” while he was conducting a live, on-air interview with the lawyer who won an injunction against the National Security Agency’s collection of phone records.

Software used by the radio station dropped the guest, Larry Klayman, and listeners who had called in to ask Klayman questions were cut off in mid-sentence. Other callers could not be put on the air due to technical difficulties at the radio station.

Audio clips saved on an independent system played at the wrong time.

Klein’s headphones had massive feedback that could be heard on the air.

At one point, the WABC call screener said, “We lost control of the software. It’s all going nuts.”

The technical difficulties started on the show about 10 minutes prior to the Klayman interview. They subsided following the two segments that featured Klayman.

“In my three years of broadcasting at WABC we never had such a technological meltdown as we are having today,” Klein told the audience.

He continued: “Calls are dropping. We cant get the guests on. Once the guests are on they are dropping. We’ve had several meltdowns. Feedback from the microphone. I can barely broadcast. … However we are going to land this airplane and we’re going to have fun doing it.”

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During the interview, Klayman called NSA data collection the “worst violation of constitutional rights in American history.”

Klayman founded the legal watchdog groups Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch.

He claimed: “What’s most dangerous about what is going on is the fact that every time someone picks up their phone, or sends an email, or goes to social media like Facebook, or uses Skype, they now know that the government is watching. And this keeps us from being critical of the government. … And that’s not just un-American, it’s like the former Soviet Union or China.

He continued: “If our Founding Fathers had lived in these times, and if King George III had had an NSA with that kind of technological capability, the Founding Fathers would have been picked up, arrested and executed before they ever got to Philadelphia to sign the Declaration of Independence.

“We live in what the judge said, and I used the term, too, when I appeared in front of him, an Orwellian state.”

Asked by WND whether he thinks the technical problems were related to Klayman, Klein said, “I have no idea but my guess is that I don’t think so. It’s probably just a coincidence.  Let’s not get paranoid.”

“Klayman has done scores of other interviews and none of those outlets reported experiencing any problems. He didn’t say anything more extreme on my show. So even if we are going to get imaginative, it wouldn’t make any sense to try to sabotage or jam this one show.”

“Still, the tech problems were quite out of the ordinary.”

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