Shows featuring Katherine Eban

  • Amidst Holder Contempt Vote, New Investigation Undermines Key GOP Claims on "Fast and Furious"

     Fastandfuriousthumb
    U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder faces a contempt vote by the House of Representatives today in a dispute involving an alleged botched gun-running probe. Republican lawmakers have accused Holder of withholding documents about a gun-running sting operation on the U.S.-Mexico border codenamed "Fast and Furious." For...
    June 28, 2012 | Story

  • The Story of Mitchell Jessen & Associates: How a Team of Psychologists in Spokane, WA, Helped Develop the CIA’s Torture Techniques

     Torture-web
    We broadcast from Spokane, Washington, less than three miles from the headquarters of a secretive CIA contractor that played a key role in developing the Bush administration’s interrogation methods. The firm, Mitchell Jessen & Associates, is named after the two military psychologists who founded the company, James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen. Beginning in 2002, the CIA hired the psychologists...
    April 21, 2009 | Story

  • Life and Work of Allen GInsberg
    Poet and political activist Allen Ginsberg died earlier this year
    at the age 70.

    Ginsberg was perhaps best known for his lifelong political activism
    and his work with the Beat poets and writers in the 1950s and
    1960s, including Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady and William Borroughs.

    Ginsberg’s 1956 poem "Howl!" captured — for many —the sentiment
    of the post-World War II period and...

    June 03, 1997 | Story