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  • The Other Convention: Scrubbed Speeches, Excluded Voices and the Crackdown on 'Peace Delegates'

    The issue of who speaks at the Democratic National Convention and what they can and cannot say is a highly politicized one. We asked John Nichols of The Nation magazine how this process works. [includes rush transcipt]
    Jul 29, 2004 | Story

  • Jesse Jackson Jr. On His Opposition to the Iraq War and the Patriot Act

    Last night we caught up with Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. As a Democratic platform committee member, Jackson led the campaign for voting rights and made sure the platform included language insuring that "every vote is counted fully and fairly." [includes rush transcript]
    Jul 29, 2004 | Story

  • Another Campaign of Misinformation? Leaked 9/11 Report Cites New Evidence That Iran Cooperated with al-Qaeda Before Attacks

    Leaked accounts of the final 9/11 Commission report due out this Thursday says the Commission has uncovered evidence suggesting that between eight and ten of the 9/11 hijackers passed through Iran in the year prior to the attacks. We speak with Middle East and Iran Expert at Baruch College Ervand Abrahamian. [Includes transcript]
    Jul 19, 2004 | Story

  • Jury Acquits Idaho Webmaster Charged With Terrorism For Hosting Anti-American Websites

    Attorney David Cole examines a recent court ruling that he says marks one of the biggest defeats for the Justice Department regarding the Patriot Act to date. A Saudi graduate student was jailed for over a year and a half for designing websites that linked to sites with terror ties. Cole asks, could the New York Times be charged for linking to sites with terror ties?
    Jun 16, 2004 | Story

  • Spying in America: How the Pentagon is Overcoming Privacy Laws to Spy At Home

    A new provision buried in an intelligence appropriations bill moving through Congress would exempt Pentagon agencies from the Privacy Act, vastly expanding their ability to gather intelligence inside the United States, including recruiting citizens as informants. [Includes transcript]
    Jun 15, 2004 | Story

  • Online Exclusive... 27-Year CIA Vet Ray McGovern On George Tenet's Surprise Resignation

    President Bush announced this morning that he had accepted the resignation of CIA Director George Tenet. Tenet, who was the second longest serving director of Central Intelligence, resigned for "personal reasons," according to Bush. But many analysts say that Tenet is a fall guy for an administration plagued by accusations of misconduct. [Includes rush transcript]
    Jun 03, 2004 | Story

  • Tattered Cover vs. U.S. Gov't: Denver Bookseller Leads Struggle Against Patriot Act Civil Liberties Violations

    We speak with Joyce Meskis, owner of the Tattered Cover bookstore in Denver, CO. A full year and a half before the Patriot Act, Meskis was confronted by police who demanded she turn over a patron’s records. Meskis refused and has since become a leading figure in librarians and booksellers’ struggle against civil liberties violations in Section 215 in the Patriot Act. [includes rush transcript]
    May 06, 2004 | Story

  • Whistleblowers From Vietnam to 9/11: A Conversation with Daniel Ellsberg and Sibel Edmonds

    We speak with two whistleblowers from different eras about their experiences in speaking out: Sibel Edmonds, a former FBI translator hired to translate pre-9/11 intelligence, has said the U.S. had considerable evidence that al Qaida was planning to strike the U.S. with airplanes. The Bush administration is now trying to block her from testifying at a major 9/11 lawsuit. And Daniel Ellsberg, perhaps the most famous whistleblower in U.S. history...
    Apr 29, 2004 | Story

  • Exclusive: Mumia Abu Jamal Speaks to Democracy Now! From Death Row

    55 Years Ago this week Pacfica’s first station KPFA first took to the airwaves in Berkeley  in order to give voice to the voiceless. Today we go to inside the prison walls to speak with the often censored death row journalist Mumia Abu Jamal. We spoke with him by phone from the San Francisco office of the Prison Radio Project. [includes rush transcript]
    Apr 16, 2004 | Story

  • Ashcroft Says Patriot Act, Immigrant Detentions Strengthened War on Terror

    In addition to laying blame for counterterrorism failures on the Clinton administration, Ashcroft also defended the controverisal Patriot Act, as well as the Detain and Clear policy for immigrants. We speak with Kate Martin of the Center for National Security Studies. [includes rush transcript]
    Apr 14, 2004 | Story