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Friday, May 7, 2004
Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld on the Defensive

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld apologized at length today for the abuses at Al Ghraid prison in Baghdad, and he promised further investigations. But that didn’t protect him from tough questions from Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee. Early in the committee hearing, Secretary Rumsfeld was interrupted by 20 protestors calling for his firing. Who knew what and when did they know it? Who was really in charge at the prison? How far up the chain of command did responsibility go? How well did he answer the questions? What are the implications for the war on terror, the war in Iraq and the Presidential campaign? We hear Rumsfeld’s apology and some of the exchanges with committee members.

  • Reporter's Notebook: The Yes Men and 'Identity Correction'
    Selling votes to the highest bidder was just one of the ideas proposed in presentations--complete with flow charts and economic jargon—at conferences on world trade. The presenters were satirists trying to make fun of the World Trade Organization. They were astonished to find they were being taken seriously. Mike Bonanno is one of the people who call themselves The Yes Men.

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Guests:

MICHAEL DUFFY

Washington Bureau chief for Time magazine

MICHAEL VICKERS

Director of strategic studies at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, an independent policy-research institute that focuses on defense planning

TOM DONNELLY

Resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of ”Iraqi Freedom and American History,” in the January 2004 issue of the Institute's National Security Outlook

JONATHAN BRODER

Defense and foreign policy editor for Congressional Quarterly

DAVID WINSTON

Contributing writer to Roll Call, which follows news, legislation and politics on Capitol Hill

DAVID CORN

Washington editor of The Nation magazine

Reporter's Notebook:

The Yes Men and 'Identity Correction'

MIKE BONANNO

One of the Yes Men, a group of activists engaged in what they call "identity correction"


links

Senate Armed Services Committee
Today's SAS Committee Hearing
Secretary Rumsfeld's prepared statement
The Gallup Poll of Iraq
Guardian article on British soldier's details on Iraqi prisoner abuse
The Yes Men and the World Trade Organization
Jonathon Swift
movie" TARGET="_blank"> The Yes Men movie

 

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