Guantanamo Audio & Video
Dick Morris 7-2-08
[description] Dick Morris, political author, newspaper columnist, and commentator who previously worked as a pollster, and political consultant will be with us to talk about his new book co-authored with Eileen Mcgann entitled Fleeced: How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want to Kill Talk Radio, the Do-Nothing Congress, Companies ... Are Scamming Us ... and What to Do About It.
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
[description] TORTURE CHART: The New York Times reports today that the same techniques that U.S. interrogators were trained to use on Guantanamo Bay detainees were once used by Chinese Communists to extract false confessions from American soldiers in the Korean War. We speak with New York Times reporter Scott Shane. VIEW FROM IRAQ : 29 year-old Marine Captain Seth Moulton has just returned from his fourth tour of duty in Iraq . Moulton volunteered to return to Iraq at the personal request of US Commander to Iraq , Gen. David Petraeus. While Moulton did make in-roads in defeating insurgents over the past year, it is unclear how long those local initiatives will last without continued US involvement. Moulton speaks candidly about his year in Iraq , where he fought insurgents, intractable Iraqi politicians and a burgeoning US military bureaucracy. CT SCANS: Tim Russert's recent death, at the age of 58, raised concerned among the millions of people in his age group about heart disease. They're ask
Here and Now Tuesday July 1, 2008
[description] POLITICAL RUMORS: Barack Obama has rejected comments from his adviser, Gen. Wesley Clark, that John McCain's military service doesn't make McCain qualified to be president. But both campaigns are dealing with much more vociferous attacks on everything from their religion to their patriotism. We talk to Ben Smith of Politico.com about how the candidates are fighting to bring the rumor mill under control. ANDREW BACEVICH: Iraq war critic Andrew Bacevich says criticism of the Bush Administration on the war hasn't gained mainstream political traction, despite the long presidential primary season. He writes today in the Boston Globe that neither presidential candidate is really making a break from Bush Administration policies. Bacevich is professor of history and international relations at Boston University. He's a retired Army lieutenant colonel who served in Vietnam. His new book is The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism. SLOW FOOD: It started in Italy 20 years ago,
NPR Hourly Newscast
[description] A brief update of the top news of the hour
Boston Globe Page One Podcast for Jun 25, 2008
[description] Top stories from the Boston Globe for Jun 25, 2008
NPR Hourly Newscast
[description] A brief update of the top news of the hour
Boston Globe Page One Podcast for Jun 18, 2008
[description] Top stories from the Boston Globe for Jun 18, 2008
Obama or Mccain 6-17-08
[description] According to a new ABC News-Washington Post Poll Barack Obama is at 48 percent to John McCain's 42 percent support. What is going to be your deciding factor?
Here and Now for Tuesday, June 17, 2008
[description] Exactly who came up with the harsh interrogation techniques that could be used on detainees at Guantanamo Bay and at the Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq. That's the focus of a Senate Armed Service committee hearing today. According to the committee's finding, Pentagon lawyer, William Haynes inquired in 2002 into a military program that trained Army soldiers on how to survive enemy interrogations. He and other officials wanted to know if the techniques could be reverse engineered and used to extract intelligence. We'll have the latest from the hearing with Demetri Sevastopulo, Pentagon and Intelligence correspondent for the Financial Times of London. It can weigh in at half a ton and measure 6 feet. Until recently, it was considered unfit for human consumption. Now the blue fin tuna, loved by sushi eaters in Japan, is endangered. We speak with Richard Ellis, a conservationist, biologist, and author. He has a book coming out in July titled "Tuna: A Love Story." He recently wrote
6/15/08 - Jimmy Myers with Attorney Henry Owens
[description] - Jimmy speaks with Henry Owens about the Supreme Court's Guantanamo Bay detainee ruling. 6/15/08







