UPDATED 5:45 p.m.
Alex Goldmark here, excited about tomorrows show a full 12+ hours ahead of time. Here's why...
We had a good show going already (see below re: Detroit week, Supreme Court fun, and some exotic lunch plans) but we've added some solid international coverage. Former Ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, will join us to look back on five years of democratic governance in Iraq, and to look ahead on the prospects for the intensifying war in Afghanistan.
Our other international news highlight for tomorrow also has to do with repercussions of decisions made under the George W. Bush administration. At Guantanamo Bay, an Army judge will hear the case of the Canadian man Omar Khadr, who claimed he was tortured by U.S. interrogators. The hearings could establish a precedent of the admissibility of confessions by detainees. We'll get an update from a reporter at the detention facility tomorrow morning.
We also have an update on wind farm plans of the Massachusetts coast and on the political (and literal) egg throwing in Ukraine.
POSTED 1:15 p.m.
Anna Sale here on the day side.
We're busy this morning monitoring the testimony of Goldman Sachs executives in Washington. (We're streaming it on our website, and Takeaway contributor Louise Story is on Capitol Hill, live blogging all the action over at The New York Times.) For tomorrow's show, we're trying to parse out what's theater and what might actually affect the Senate's deal-making on new financial regulations. If you're tuned in today, let us know what you make of all the hubbub.
We're also looking ahead to Supreme Court arguments Wednesday in Doe v. Reed, a case out of Washington that asks whether the public has the right to know who signs petitions for voter initiatives. The lawsuit stems from a drive to repeal a law that recognizes gay domestic partnerships. Gay rights activists want to see who signed the petition, while a group called Protect Marriage Washington says the names should be protected because it could expose supporters to harassment. We'll look at this case and how it fits in with other recent decisions from the Court on the First Amendment.
We're also licking our chops in anticipation of a PB&J smackdown tomorrow in our weekly conversation about food. We'll look at successful (and maybe not so successful) experiments with the old classic. The two hosts of the The Sporkful podcast will each bring their twisted versions, and we're asking you — have you ever experimented with the PB&J? Tell us your experience.
Anna Sale covers the 2012 election and regional politics for It's A Free Country, WNYC's interactive politics site. She got her start covering politics for public radio and television in West Virginia and Connecticut, and before returning to reporting, she was a managing producer for The Takeaway, WNYC's national morning news show. She's also contributed to NPR, Marketplace, Slate, Current TV, and NY1.
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I wil try to be brief altough i tend to get worked up by the excellent reporting and analysis that TheTakeaway provides.
1) 20 year ago Wiliam Kunstler opined that the U.S. was moving right in very alarming way.
2) He was right and his comments pre-dated the internet with its dissemination of information-- valid, invalid, true/false and its threats to the privacy of everybody who ever provides the last 4 digits of their sc security numbers.
\3) we have no prvt affairs if we are logged on to the internet in any way,
4) when goldman sacs executives act like they have no fiduciary dutie to their clients,when they have acces to all their financial informtion- crdit report risk anlysis, criminal rcords, taxrcords, is a bunch of baloney, to use a mild term. they are crooks and perps and plunderers and i have bloggd about this previously . They should be beset with a plague of shareholder suits and criminal and civil prosecution from the FBI and be left incarcerated until they make restitution.
forget about ur rights to privacy ,due process, all ur cnstitutional rigts ,particulrly if u r an immigrnt and lo Hispnic not just in Arizona but anywehre in this country.
I could go on - i feel like im in the movie Network where Peter Falk the anchor shouted from his window _" we're mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore !
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