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Showing videos filed under: national security
Vince Warren: Freedom, Privacy, and the Courts
September 15, 2010“Do we want to live in a place where the U.S. government can torture and kill people at will? Or do we not?” asks Vince Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. A new Amnesty International report says that thousands of detainees in Iraq, many recently transferred from U.S. custody, are still at risk of torture, and back in the U.S. the Obama administration continues to use "national security" as justification for everything from dismissing lawsuits to searching laptops.Vince Warren, Russ Feingold, and Jay Smooth
September 14, 2010“Do we want to live in a place where the U.S. government can torture and kill people at will? Or do we not?” asks Vince Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. A new Amnesty International report says that thousands of detainees in Iraq, many recently transferred from U.S. custody, are still at risk of torture, and back in the U.S. the Obama administration continues to use "national security" as justification for everything from dismissing lawsuits to searching laptops.Julian Zelizer: National Security Myths
February 4, 2010In his new book, Julian Zelizer lays out a history of national security policy in the U.S. and makes the point that bipartisanship has largely always been a myth here. Instead, presidents who succeed lay out a concrete plan for what they want and fight to get it accomplished. Obama, he suggests, should take a lesson or two from the past.Whose News, Julian Zelizer, and Democracy in Canada
February 3, 2010Discussions on the future of journalism are happening so often now that they're almost trite. But Robert McChesney, John Nichols, Tracy Van Slyke and Kate Giammarise are not only interested in saving journalism; they're interested in having all of us have a say.Can We Scan Ourselves to Safety?
January 21, 2010In the wake of the failed underpants bombing attempt, new airport security rules have been added, and discussion has ramped up of the use of full-body scanners and other invasive technologies. We ask Liliana Segura of AlterNet and Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent if we can scan ourselves to safety, or if this is just more security theater designed to get us to give up our civil liberties.Lessons From Massachusetts, Airport Security and Haiti
January 20, 2010Scott Brown, a Republican with tea party support, won the special election for the last two years of Ted Kennedy's Senate term last night over Democrat Martha Coakley. Predictably, the blame game has already started, with critiques leveled at everyone from Coakley herself to the President.The F Word: Never Mind the Detainees, Get Dick Cheney out of my Backyard!
May 23, 2009On MSNBC Laura Flanders calls for the media to get off Cheney's talking points and get to the problems with Obama's security plan.America's Military Meltdown
December 13, 2008Is the US Military falling apart? What is the state of our military and defense system, and outsourced private contractors? The Center for Defense Information has a new book, "America's Defense Meltdown.” We’re joined by the editor of this new book, Winslow Wheeler; Tim Weiner of the NYTimes; Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army.
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