Monday, June 30, 2008

Tonight on Counterpoint

8:00 p.m. - Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris
  • Kevin Bankston, senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a plaintiff in the lawsuits against telephone companies that conducted warrantless wire taps. He examines the consequences for the Constitution and holding lawbreakers accountable, with Congressional Democrat's caving in to the Bush administration on a new FISA surveillance bill.
  • Brendan Bell Washington representative with the Union of Concerned Scientists, who assesses the credibility of calls to scrap environmental laws in order to expand drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and fragile coastal areas.
  • Steve Heller, aka the "Diebold Whistleblower." In January of 2004 he stole and exposed legal documents [PDF] proving that Diebold Election Systems, Inc. was using and planned to continue using illegal, uncertified software in their California voting machines. He discusses issues related to election integrity, as citizens prepare to vote for president and Congress this November.
  • Matthew Smucker, of the War Resisters League, summarizes a new report which features interviews with 90 peace and justice organizers from around the country expressing their views on the state of the U.S. anti-war movement.

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