Monday, May 12, 2008

Tonight on Counterpoint

8:00 p.m. - Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris
  • Scott Horton, journalist and Columbia University law professor who many credit with breaking the media blackout on the Bush administration's complicity in the politically motivated prosecution of former Alabama governor Don Siegelman on corruption charges, who was recently released from prison.
  • Emi MacClean, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, examines allegations by lawyers representing detainees at Guantanamo who believe government agents have monitored their conversations.
  • Timothy Karr, campaign director with the group Free Press, discusses public pressure for Congress to investigate the Pentagon's propaganda program that successfully embedded pro-Bush military officers as paid commentators in U.S. corporate media.
  • Norwalk, CT - Nagarote, Nicaragua Sister City Project Field Director, Sarah Proescher, talks about the 22 year old group's development projects and politics inside Nicaragua.

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