Operation Truth

About Operation Truth

I'm Lou Palumbo. I spent 53 years in law enforcement and a lot of years traveling, listening, and learning from people smarter than me. This show is called Operation Truth because that's the whole idea. No agenda. Nobody paying me to say anything. I'm not here to tell you who to vote for or how to think. I'm here to give you food for thought. Every week I take on the things this country can't seem to talk about without going at each other's throats. Guns. Immigration. The media. The technology watching all of us. I'll tell you what I've seen firsthand, I'll tell you when I don't know something, and I'll ask you to fact check me. But I'm going to ask you for three things while we do this. Civility. Decency. Respect. Those left the conversation somewhere along the way, and I think that costs us more than any single issue does. Mostly, this show is about our children. My generation broke a lot of what they were supposed to believe in. The least we can do now is be honest with them. You don't have to agree with me. I'll still be your friend.

Publisher

Lou Palumbo and Tom Fuentes

Category

government · news · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

16 Mar 2021

Latest episode

21 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

189 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   21 Oct 2026

   I Don't Agree With Bernie Sanders On Much. He's Right About This One.

   My co-host couldn't make it today, so it's just me. A well-known talk show host went on TV this week and said the answer to school shootings is putting more armed people inside schools. More guards. More former cops like me. I want to ask one question about that. What happened to this country that our children can't go to a classroom, or a movie theater, or a mall at Christmas, without armed people standing there? That's not an answer. That's a band-aid. And I'll tell you what I think the ...

2. 

   7 Oct 2026

   I Knew Ghislaine Maxwell. I Worked For O.J. Simpson. Here's What I Learned About People.

   Tennessee tried to execute a woman twice last week. Both attempts failed. She'd been sitting on death row for thirty two years. Tom and I spent a long time on that one, and I'll be honest with you — I've never been a proponent of the death penalty and I'm not fully comfortable with where I ended up. But Tom made a point I can't argue with. He says the standard for a capital case shouldn't be beyond a reasonable doubt. It should be beyond any doubt whatsoever. If it's on film, if there are eye...

3. 

   1 Oct 2026

   New York's New Strategy: Why "Free" Is The Winning Ticket

   Tom Fuentes joined me late today. I started without him, which means you get about twenty five minutes of me on my own first, and then the two of us for the rest of it. The part I'd point you to is the Kennedy conversation. Tom ran the FBI's organized crime program and he's been working on this a long time. He walks through the Bay of Pigs, and why the CIA never forgave Kennedy for refusing to send in the Air Force. Then the back channel the Kennedy brothers opened directly to Khrushchev, and...

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