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For The Week Ending July 4, 2003
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM
Federal Court Upholds Secret Detentions;
Interview with Arthur Spitzer,
In a 2 to 1 ruling on June 17, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. upheld the Bush administration's right to keep secret the names of some 700 immigrants arrested by the Justice Department after the Sept. 11 attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C.
The ruling, expected to be appealed, is yet another victory for the Bush administration, whose rewriting of judicial procedures has been challenged by civil liberties groups. Speaking for the White House, Attorney General John Ashcroft has cited the war against terrorism as the justification for a steady erosion of rights accorded to immigrants and citizens. Recent court decisions have affirmed the Bush administration's right to hold secret hearings; indefinitely detain and deny access to attorneys to U.S. citizens labeled "enemy combatants" and declared that Afghan prisoners held at the U.S. Guantanamo Naval base in Cuba are not subject to protections embodied in U.S. constitutional law.
Last month, the Justice Department's own inspector general released a report documenting many abuses committed against immigrants held in secret detention, confirming the fears many opponents of these measures had expressed about the dangers inherent in secret imprisonment. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Arthur Spitzer, legal director of the ACLU's National Capitol Area Office, who examines the long term impact these series of court decisions may have on America's judicial system and civil liberties guaranteed under the Bill of Rights.
For more information, call the ACLU at (212) 549-2500 or visit their website at: www.aclu.org
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for 2004 Presidential Election, U.S. Officials Work to Discredit Leftist Party
Interview with Burke Stansbury,
During the 1980s, the U.S. government's military and economic support for repressive right-wing regimes in Central America, challenged by guerrilla movements and civil society, resulted in hundreds of thousands of mostly civilian deaths.
Under terms that ended El Salvador's civil war in the early 1990s, the rebel Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, or FMLN, became a legal political party. It is now contending for power with the conservative ARENA party, founded by the leader of El Salvador's infamous death squads and representing that country's financial elite. ARENA, a staunch supporter of U.S. policy, controls the presidency.
In preparation for a presidential election in March 2004, the FMLN is holding primary elections on July 27. Against this backdrop, the U.S. is stepping up criticism of the FMLN. America's ambassador to El Salvador, Rose Likins, recently attacked FMLN positions on a number of issues and said that U.S. investment could be withdrawn from the country if an FMLN president were elected. Underscoring Washington's position, Daniel Fisk, U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for hemispheric affairs, publicly expressed his distrust in the FMLN's "commitment to democracy in El Salvador." He also declared in his June 18 comments, that the FMLN's discourse "looks as if it were written in Havana."
Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Burke Stansbury, national program organizer with CISPES, the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, about the growing popularity of the FMLN and subsequent threats from U.S. officials.
For more information on the campaign to oppose U.S. intervention in El Salvadoran politics, call CISPES at (212) 465-8115 or visit their website at: www.cispes.org
on Global Warming Deleted by Bush Administration 'Spin Doctors'
Interview with Kert Davies,
EPA administrator Christy Todd Whitman, who has resigned her position effective June 27, denied that the editing process had compromised the integrity of the report. But former and current agency staff have complained that changes demanded by the White House undermined the credibility of the EPA to accurately report on existing scientific research. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Kert Davies, research director with Greenpeace USA, who takes a critical look at this episode indicating that a conflict of interest between the Bush administration's political supporters in energy production companies and the public interest was the origin of these actions taken to manipulate a government report. Contact Greenpeace by calling (202) 462-1177 or visit their website at: www.greenpeaceusa.org Related links
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