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For The Week Ending July 20, 2007
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Interview with Robert Parry,
After the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. rejected Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff Lewis Libby's July 2 request to remain free on bail while appealing his conviction, President Bush intervened and commuted the White House aide's 30-month prison sentence. Libby was found guilty by a jury on March 6 of lying about his role in the leak of undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity. He was convicted on two counts of perjury, one count of making false statements and one count of obstruction of justice. President Bush's decision to grant Libby a "get out of jail free card," was greeted by public opposition and accusations by many Democrats that the commutation was unprecedented and violated Justice Department guidelines. Rep. John Conyers, Democrat of Michigan and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, charged that the president commuted Libby's sentence in order to protect other administration officials. Rep. Robert Wexler, Democrat of Florida, has drafted a resolution to censure Bush for the commutation. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with investigative journalist Robert Parry, who takes a critical look at the president's actions in the Libby case and the pattern of behavior that he concludes was the final act of a crime and cover-up that began when Bush, Cheney and other top officials launched a retaliatory campaign against Valerie Plame's husband, ambassador Joseph Wilson. Wilson was the Iraq War critic who had said Bush's January 2003 State of the Union claim that Niger had sold yellow-cake uranium to Saddam Hussein was false. Robert Parry is winner of the George Polk award for national reporting and author of "Secrecy and Privilege, Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq." Read his columns online at www.consortiumnews.com Related links:
Interview with Krista Hanson,
On July 2, the president of El Salvador, Elías Antonio Saco, traveled to the town of Suchitoto to announce water "decentralization" -- the first step in the privatization process. Water privatization is one of the hottest political issues in the country. The poor farmers held a peaceful demonstration that was violently broken up by the police. Fourteen people, including four Association of Rural Communities for the Development of El Salador leaders who hadn't yet arrived at the site of the protest, were arrested and all but one were charged with terrorism. The Salvadoran government is very closely allied with the Bush administration. It is the only Latin American nation to still have troops fighting alongside the U.S. in Iraq, and it is the site of a Latin American police training academy that was rejected by at least two other Latin American countries. Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Krista Hanson, program director of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador. She discusses CISPES' support for groups in El Salvador that oppose the so-called "war on terror" in their country, and the criminalizing of popular protest. For information on El Salvador's fight against water privatization and the arrested protesters of Suchitoto, call CISPES at (212) 465-4115 or visit their website, at www.cispes.org Related links:
Interview with John Brittain,
In a 5 to 4 decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the U.S. Supreme Court on June 28, instructed two school districts in Seattle, Wash. and Louisville, Ky. that they cannot seek to integrate schools by considering a student's race. Educators say this decision could dramatically limit integration efforts across the U.S. The justices, bitterly divided on this case, all referenced the landmark 1954 Brown v.Board of Education desegregation decision that made segregation in schools based on race illegal. In his dissent from the majority, Justice Stephen Breyer said this decision is one "that the court and the nation will come to regret." Justice Anthony Kennedy, who cast the deciding vote in the case, supported the overall decision, but joined the majority in rejecting the conservative justices' view that race may never be used to classify students in order to achieve racial balance in schools, making the decision somewhat ambiguous. Between the Lines' Scott Harris spoke with John Brittain, chief counsel and senior deputy with the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Brittain, a leading civil rights attorney, comments on the court's decision, its impact on school districts across the nation and what's at stake for the U.S. in the future direction of the Supreme Court. Contact the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law by calling (202) 662-8600 or visit their website at www.lawyerscommittee.org
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Compiled by Bob Nixon
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