LOS TITULARES DE HOY

• Harriet Miers retiró su postulación para la Corte Suprema.
• La Casa Blanca se prepara para acusaciones por filtración de la CIA
• Más de 1.500 actividades marcaron la muerte de 2000 estadounidenses en Irak
• Israel ataca tras bombardeo suicida que mató a cinco personas
• Presidente de Irán: Israel “debe ser borrado del mapa”
• Gobierno ordenó notificar a los abogados de prisioneros sobre alimentación por la fuerza
• Investigación: Más de 2.000 empresas pagaron sobornos al gobierno de Irak
• Ley Patriota renovada para cambiar las regulaciones de la pena de muerte
• Empresas energéticas informan ganancias trimestrales récord
• El gobierno de Bush reinserta le ley Davis-Bacon en la costa del Golfo
• CBS reemplaza a jefe de noticias por encargado de deportes
• Reverendo Jackson se reúne con Aristide en Sudáfrica

EL RESTO DE LA HORA DE DEMOCRACY NOW!

• Italian Media Reveals U.S. Officials Met With Italian Intelligence Officials To Discuss Fake Documents Citing Niger Nuke Sales to Iraq

  
  

  As the country waits to see whether indictments will be handed down to top White House officials in the CIA leak case, reports are breaking that Italian intelligence and Bush administration officials met in connection with the forged Niger documents that were used to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq. We get the latest from law professor Scott Horton and journalist Laura Rozen. [includes rush transcript]

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• Lawyer Scott Horton: "Vice President Cheney is the Man Who Unleashed Torture and Promoted it Within Our Military and Our Intelligence Service"

  
  

  The Bush administration is coming under increased criticism for attempting to justify the torture of detainees. Vice President Dick Cheney and CIA Director Porter Goss reportedly urged Senator John McCain to exempt the CIA from a proposed ban on torture. We speak with lawyer Scott Horton about the VP and torture. [includes rush transcript]

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• "Off To War: From Rural Arkansas to Baghdad": Filmmakers on the Lives of Arkansan Soldiers in Iraq

  
  

  We air excerpts of the film and speak with filmmakers Craig Renaud and Brent Renaud about the series that follows members of the Arkansas National Guard as they deploy to Iraq. "Off to War" was one of the first films to deal with the ongoing problem of U.S. troops having inadequate equipment and unarmored vehicles in Iraq. [includes rush transcript]

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