Martes 13 de Junio de 2006

LOS TITULARES DE HOY

• Informe: Karl Rove no será acusado en el caso de filtración de la CIA
• Mueren nueve personas en ataque aéreo israelí en Gaza
• Seguidores de Fatah asaltan edificio del Parlamento controlado por Hamas
• Estados Unidos pide a tribunal que desestime demanda por espionaje de la NSA
• Mueren dieciocho personas en cinco atentados con coches bomba en Kirkuk
• Autopsia: Zarqawi permaneció con vida durante 52 minutos tras el ataque
• Gasto militar mundial supera los 1.1 billones de dólares; gasto de Estados Unidos es 1.600 dólares por cabeza
• Líderes religiosos solicitan a Estados Unidos abolición de la tortura
• Estados Unidos se niega a cerrar Guantánamo
• Policía del Reino Unido libera a dos hombres acusados de participar en ataque terrorista
• Sindicatos se oponen a nominación de ejecutivo de empresa minera para dirigir la MSHA
• Se ordena evacuación de 20.000 personas en Florida debido a huracán

EL RESTO DE LA HORA DE DEMOCRACY NOW!

• Federal Prosecutors Decide Not to Indict Karl Rove in CIA Leak Case

  
  

  Federal prosecutors have decided not to charge President Bush’s top advisor Karl Rove with any crimes in the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame. The prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has made no official statement but Rove’s attorney said early this morning that Fitzgerald announced the decision in a letter to him on Monday. [includes rush transcript]

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• Gaza Physician, British Journalist Refute Reported Israeli Military Investigation that Clears IDF, Blames Hamas for Deadly Beach Attack

  
  

  Nine Palestinians, including two children, have been killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza Tuesday. We go to Gaza to speak with a reporter for the London Independent as well as a Palestinian physician who was at the hospital that received many of the victims of Friday’s deadly explosion on a beach in Northern Gaza that left eight Palestinians dead. The two contradict the reported findings of an Israel Defense Forces panel that concludes the IDF was not responsible for Friday’s bombing. [includes rush transcript]

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• "Confronting Confinement": Bi-Partisan Commission Criticizes Size, Conditions and Racial Make-Up of U.S. Prison System

  
  

  The Commission on Safety and Abuse in America’s Prisons argues the country’s prison system has fallen victim to overcrowding; overzealous incarceration; abuse; unaccountability and inadequate health care. Among its recommendations are to dramatically reduce the use of physical force and prisoner segregation. It also calls on expanding prisoner access to Medicare and Medicaid. [includes rush transcript]

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