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This morning Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, the man who first investigated and issued the
report on prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison is on the Hill testifying before the
Senate Armed Services Committee...We track, report and analyze the drip, drip, drip of
this story as this controversy continues to unfold...
We talk to a couple of senators on the Committee: Senators Mark Dayton (D-MN) and
Saxby Chambliss (R-GA)
We'll get some insight into detainee treatment from Mark Jacobson, former Special
Assistant for the office of the Secretary of Defense who helped develop policy for the
detention of enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and Iraq.
We'll talk to Sr. editor of the Army Times about a recent editorial on the prison
abuse scandal: Army Times Editorial: A failure of leadership at the highest levels
http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-2903288.php
We'll also kick it with lefty NY Times columnist Paul Krugman about his latest column:
Just Trust Us (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/11/opinion/11KRUG.html?hp
Chris is out tonight so Andrea Mitchell fills in
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MSNBC special on 50 years of Brown Vs. Board of Education
http://msnbc.msn.com/ID/4916787/
Video & transcript of last night's Sy Hersh interview http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4909290/
Mortman content: Hollywood-D.C lovefest? Gag me! Time for separation of celebrities
and state http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4918171/
Fun Clinton News: President Bill Clinton has finished writing his memoirs and has
submitted the completed manuscript to editors. The book's cover was sent to retailers
Tuesday as the publisher begins taking orders for the expected best seller. (AP)
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040511/D82GFRQ80.html
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General saw 'failure of leadership' at Iraq prison...Report author says intel
officers, contractors involved in abuse http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4855930/
The Army general who investigated the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners by the U.S.
military testified on Tuesday he never found any orders to soldiers directing them to
use abusive techniques on inmates. (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5106306
Secret world of U.S. interrogation...The Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, where a unit of
U.S. soldiers abused prisoners, is just the largest and suddenly most notorious in a
worldwide constellation of detention centers -- many of them secret and all off-limits
to public scrutiny -- that the U.S. military and CIA have operated in the name of
counterterrorism or counterinsurgency operations since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
(The Washington Post) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4947667/
Mistreatment Of Detainees Went Beyond Guards' Abuse...Ex-Prisoners, Red Cross Cite
Flawed Arrests, Denial of Rights (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15492-2004May10.html
The international Red Cross has been buffeted by demands that it drop its policy of
confidentiality in dealing with prisoners in Iraq but says its quiet approach is the
best protection for victims of war. (AP)
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040511/D82GE1QG0.html
U.S. changes rules for Afghan prisoners...Iraq abuse reports prompt shorter holding
times (AP) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4951668/
As others condemned the reported abuse of Iraqi prisoners, U.S. Sen. James Inhofe on
Tuesday expressed outrage at the worldwide outrage over the treatment by American
soldiers of those he called "terrorists" and "murderers." (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=5106410
Gunmen attack civilian convoy...Gunmen attacked a U.S.-run civilian convoy in Iraq and
some personnel are unaccounted for, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4899904/
President Bush's approval rating dropped to the lowest of his presidency in a poll
taken after a week of revelations about abuse of Iraqi prisoners and questions about
whether Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld should keep his job. (USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/polls/2004-05-10-bush-poll_x.htm
President Bush is putting his education policies on display during a three-day focus
on the subject, including visits to two states that are toss-ups in the November
presidential election. (AP) http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040511/D82GC1KO0.html
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry warned his political opponents on Monday
against attacking his outspoken wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, saying, "They're going to
have to go through me." (Reuters)
http://news.myway.com/top/article/id/402633|top|05-10-2004::21:45|reutershtml
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said Monday his health care proposal to
reduce soaring premiums and cut fraud and waste is the remedy for a system "badly
broken" under President Bush. (AP) http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4944764/
Across U.S., war means jobs...Defense spending pumps new life into small towns (The
Washington Post) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4947681/
Curry: Will prison flap influence high court cases?...Experts say justices may be less
inclined to favor administration http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4947445/
U.S.-led forces will hand over Saddam Hussein and top officials of his former regime
to the Iraqis before the handover of power, a top lawyer who is coordinating the
toppled dictator's trial said Tuesday. (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=P41M0EIRA2TQECRBAELCFEY?type=topNews&storyID=5106276
Conservatives restive about Bush...After three years of sweeping actions in both
foreign and domestic affairs, the Bush administration is facing complaints from the
conservative intelligentsia that it has lost its ability to produce fresh policies.
(The Washington Post) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4939538/
Vice President Dick Cheney was undergoing a routine exam Tuesday to check on a
pacemaker placed in his chest in June 2001. (AP) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4952013/
Sammon: President Bush's top advisers think Democratic opponents and the press have an
unhealthy obsession with the Vietnam War that threatens to dominate the re-election
campaign against Sen. John Kerry.
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20040511-123505-8871r.htm
Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle decried Monday what he called the "startling
meanness" of American politics...The South Dakotan, who has been Senate Democratic
leader for nine years and is seeking re-election in November, said campaigns were
especially ugly in 2002 and that the ugliness continues. (AP)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4946662/
Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign issued a second mass fund-raising e-mail
yesterday based on the Iraqi prisoner abuse situation amid Republican charges that the
Democratic candidate is capitalizing on a national disgrace. (The Washington Times)
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040510-113347-6995r.htm
House hardly breaking a sweat...GOP defends light work schedule; Dems protest (The
Washington Post) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4947680/
At least 28 senior-level federal employees in eight agencies have bogus college
degrees, including three managers at the office that oversees nuclear weapons safety,
congressional investigators have found. (AP) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4951979/
Security costs soar for GOP convention...New York now says it will cost $76 million to
safeguard gathering (AP) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4951785/
Bush's family wary of Baghdad visit...President Bush's daughters, Jenna and Barbara,
feared he would not survive his surprise Thanksgiving visit with the troops in
Baghdad. And their mother, first lady Laura Bush, nearly compromised the secrecy of
the trip. (The Washington Times)
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20040510-113419-4536r.htm
Moral Clarity, Courage Needed, Bush Aide Says...Class Is Told to Judge Leaders'
Character (AP) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11143-2004May8.html
Rush & Molloy: Michael Moore will be on the road with his anti-Bush film, "Fahrenheit
9/11," by the Fourth of July and DVDs will be out before Election Day, a source says.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/192171p-166047c.html
Opinion/Editorial
O'Sullivan: Rumsfeld's still the people's choice
http://www.suntimes.com/output/osullivan/cst-edt-osul11.html
Rousseaux: Shrinkage and Synthesis http://www.techcentralstation.com/051004E.html
Terry: Did Colin Powell Hit a Bull's-Eye?
http://humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=3812
Katrina: The New Disaster Flick...The Day After Tomorrow could become more than just a
sci-fi fantasy. http://www.thenation.com/edcut/index.mhtml?bid=7
Confessore: Bush's Secret Stash...Why the GOP war chest is even bigger than you think.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2004/0405.confessore.html
The Washington Times: Kerry's patroness...Ever since his 1996 Senate re-election
campaign, Sen. John Kerry has made liberal use of millions of dollars from his second
wife's inheritance. http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20040510-094322-5477r.htm
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