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cyberpj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 08:33 AM
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PBS:NOW this week: Halliburton whistleblower talks
Edited on Fri Oct-14-05 08:58 AM by cyberpj
This week on NOW:
David Brancaccio interviews U.S. Army Corps of Engineers official Bunnatine Greenhouse, who was demoted after blowing the whistle on alleged contractor fraud and abuse involving exclusive, non-compete contracts worth billions of dollars to Halliburton and its subsidiary KBR, which have since been awarded new government work in the rebuilding of the Gulf Coast.

http://www.pbs.org/now/thisweek/index.html

ALSO, ON PBS:FRONTLINE:
PBS:FRONTLINE this week: The Torture Question

This week on Frontline:
Behind-the-scenes photos and video of Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib; Extended interviews with White House, Justice and Pentagon officials involved in policy making on detainee treatment, and an exploration of the legal thinking behind their decisions; FAQs on interrogation policies, who's been held accountable in the abuse scandal, the 12 Defense Dept. investigations, and more; A chronology of the post-9/11 decisions that laid the groundwork for prison abuse; Plus, the opportunity to watch the full program again in streaming video, and more.

coming Oct. 18, 2005 at 9pm (check local listings)
(90 minutes) In the uncertain weeks following September 11, an internal power struggle was underway deep inside the Bush administration. Waged between partisans at the highest levels of the government, that battle -- captured in a series of blunt memos -- exemplifies the struggle to create a legal framework to give the president authority to aggressively interrogate enemy fighters in the war on terror.

much more:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/torture/
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