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Monday, July 14, 2008
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Headlines
- Bush Administration Moves to Bail Our Mortgage Companies
- IndyMac Bank Collapses; Second Largest Bank Failure in US History
- ICC Files Genocide Charges Against Sudan’s al-Bashir
- Red Cross: CIA’s Handling of Prisoners Categorically Torture
- Report: In 2002 CIA Warned 1/3 of Gitmo Prisoners Were Innocent
- Nine US Troops Killed in Afghanistan
- Obama Calls for 10,000 More US Troops in Afghanistan
- New Yorker Cover Depicts Obama as Muslim Terrorist
- McCain Distances Himself from Sen. Phil Gramm
- Indonesian Forces Blamed for 1999 Violence in East Timor
- 13,000 Protest in Japan Over US Nuclear Warship
- Code Pink Blockades Rep. Ackerman’s House Boat
- Green Party Nominates Cynthia McKinney to be President
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Embedded Photojournalist Accuses US Military of Censorship After Being Barred for Publishing Photo of Dead Marine
An American photojournalist who was embedded with the Marines in Fallujah has been barred from the Marine Corps because of graphic photographs showing Marines killed in a suicide bombing last month. A few hours after he posted some photos of the bombing on his blog, a high-ranking public affairs official ordered him to remove it. When he refused, he was told his "embed" had been terminated and he would be flown out of Iraq. [includes rush transcript]
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Court Interpreter Breaks Confidentiality Code to Speak Out for Workers Rounded Up in Largest Immigration Raid in U.S. History
On May 12th, Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested nearly 400 workers at a meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa in the largest immigration raid in US history. Many were sent to prison. We speak with Erik Camayd-Freixas, a professor and Spanish-language court interpreter who was flown into Iowa for the trial. He broke the code of confidentiality among legal interpreters to describe the workers’ predicament in what he calls "the saddest procession I have ever witnessed." He says most of the workers were peasants from Guatemala and did not fully understand the criminal charges they were facing. He also says that court-appointed lawyers had little time to meet with the workers, many of whom ended up waiving their rights. [includes rush transcript]
