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In the wake of the successful pushback against the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure’s decision to defund Planned Parenthood, the Obama administration should listen to the majority of Americans: The United States, including Catholics, is strongly pro-choice.
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Part 2: "Who Killed Che? How the CIA Got Away with Murder": New Book Ties Johnson Admin to Che Death
In an extended interview, co-authors Michael Ratner and Michael Steven Smith discuss the life of Cuban revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara and the chilling story behind his murder by the Bolivian military. In their book, "Who Killed Che?" Ratner and Smith draw on previously unpublished U.S. government documents to argue the CIA played a critical role in the killing. [includes rush transcript]
Watch a 2011 interview with Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzón, who is on trial in Spain after right-wing groups objected to his investigation of atrocities committed by supporters of the dictator Francisco Franco. Garzón is known for seeking to indict members of the Bush administration for their role in torturing prisoners.
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Diallo Judge Issues Rules On Jury Instruction
The judge presiding over the trial of the four white New York City police officers charged with murdering African immigrant Amadou Diallo said yesterday that he would accept a request by both the defense and the prosecution to add lesser charges to the two counts of second-degree murder each officer faces. The lesser charges include manslaughter in the first and second degree and criminally negligent homicide, the last of which carries a minimum sentence of probation.
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Bronx Resident Describes Being Attacked By Mcmellon the Night of Diallo’s Killing
This week Democracy Now! looked at what the officers who killed Amadou Diallo were up to in the hours before the killing. In one incident–referred to in the trial as the "Boynton Avenue" incident just an hour and a half before Diallo’s killing–two young men who were brothers say they were assaulted by two teams of officers from the Street Crimes Unit, one of which was comprised of the four officers who killed Diallo. Twenty year-old Maurice Washington says that he was beaten and arrested by three officers outside his Bronx apartment building. He said one of them was Edward McMellon.
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Frank Serpico On Police Corruption
As scandals of police misconduct and corruption unravel across the country–from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Rampart division scandal, to the Diallo and Abner Louima police brutality trials in New York, to accusations of misconduct in Pittsburgh–we now turn to former police officer who became known when he exposed deep-seated corruption at the New York Police Department in the 1970’s. His name is Frank Serpico, and he was portrayed by Al Pacino in the 1973 movie "Serpico."
