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Feb 12 2006
The Press, The President and the Privilege of Power
By Democracy Now   

Part II Of Our Conversation With Fired CBS "Memo-Gate" Producer Mary Mapes

Mary Mapes, the longtime television news producer and reporter who worked for CBS for fifteen years. Mapes tells the story of the memo that brought down CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather and prompted CBS to force out four of its top journalists - including Mapes. In the report, Rather charged that President Bush had received preferential treatment in the National Guard in the early 1970s.

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Exclusive Interview
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Murray Waas on How Cheney "Authorized" Libby to Leak Classified Information

Investigative journalist Murray Waas who reports that Lewis "Scooter" Libby - Cheney's indicted former chief of staff - testified he had been "authorized" by Cheney and other White House "superiors" to disclose classified information to journalists to defend the Bush administration's use of prewar intelligence in making the case to invade Iraq.

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Fired CBS Producer Stands By Documents
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Showing Bush Neglected National Guard Service

Mary Mapes, longtime television news producer and reporter who worked for CBS for fifteen years, tells the story that brought down CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather and prompted CBS to force out four of its top journalists - including Mapes. In the report, Rather charged that President Bush had received preferential treatment in the National Guard in the early 1970s.

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Gonzales Grilled at Senate Hearing
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Gonzales Grilled at Senate Hearing, Defends NSA Spy Program

Republican and Democratic Senators questioned Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Monday over the Bush administration's right to spy on Americans citizens without court order. We play excerpts of the hearings.

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Why Did You Want to Bomb Me Mr. Bush and Mr. Blair?
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Al Jazeera Director Demands More Information on Secret Memo

Days after the Daily Mirror cited the memo that allegedly reveals President Bush told Tony Blair in April 2004 of his desire to bomb Al Jazeera, Wadah Khanfar, Managing Director of Al Jazeera, arrived in London to petition for a meeting with Blair to discuss the leaked memo. We speak with Khanfar about his demands for more information about the secret memo.

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