Today, a democracy now broadcast exclusive, we speak with alayne fleischmann, the whistleblower who helped the Justice Department forced the bank to pay one of the largest fines in american history. You might be surprised what she says about the bank as well as the obama white house. She is featured in a new Rolling Stone piece a recently returned matt taibbi. The significance of this story to me is that it talks a lot about the legacy of eric holder. We finally have somebody from the inside who is telling us what a lot of us expected all along, that the Obama Administration did have enough evidence to proceed against a lot of these banks, and they just did not do enough with that evidence and those witnesses. And we finally have someone like alayne fleischmann who can tell us all about that and all that went on. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. A federal Appeals Court in ohio has dealt a blow to Marria
With alayne fleischmann, the whistleblower who helped the Justice Department forced the bank to pay one of the largest fines in american history. You might be surprised what she says about the bank as well as the obama white house. She is featured in a new Rolling Stone piece a recently returned matt taibbi. The significance of this story to me is that it talks a lot about the legacy of eric holder. We finally have somebody from the inside who is telling us what a lot of us expected all along, that the Obama Administration did have enough evidence to proceed against a lot of these banks, and they just did not do enough with that evidence and those witnesses. And we finally have someone like alayne fleischmann who can tell us all about that and all that went on. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. A federal Appeals Court in ohio has dealt a blow to Marriage Equality in a move expected to bring the issue bef
Religious organizations that solitary confinement is an unchristian practice. Researchers have found it often does more harm than good. Many of the people that they worked with who were held in solitary confinement experienced paranoia. Hallucinations, depression. Some reacted eventually with violent, uncontrollable anger. Bobby delalo knows what it was like. He was in solitary for five year. You go crazy. You hear guys saying yeah, what . The ventilator called his name. A thing that really scared me in there is i was watching my humanity and compassion slipping out of my grasp. John russer is chairman of the washington, d. C. Corrections officers union. He thinks as do many Prison Guards nationwide the solitary is getting a bad rap. Its necessary to preserve the safety of inmates and guards within the prison. I do not see how you could run a prison system at all without without some type of segregation. And i dont prefer to use the term solitary solitary . Solitary, yes. I think that
Many of the people that they worked with who were held in solitary confinement experienced paranoia. Hallucinations, depression. Some reacted eventually with violent, uncontrollable anger. Bobby delalo knows what it was like. He was in solitary for five year. You go crazy. You hear guys saying yeah, what . The ventilator called his name. A thing that really scared me in there is i was watching my humanity and compassion slipping out of my grasp. John russer is chairman of the washington, d. C. Corrections officers union. He thinks as do many Prison Guards nationwide the solitary is getting a bad rap. Its necessary to preserve the safety of inmates and guards within the prison. I do not see how you could run a prison system at all without without some type of segregation. And i dont prefer to use the term solitary solitary . Solitary, yes. I think that has too many negative c negati negligent connotation. And bobby delalo ended up in solitary after trying to escape. Five years and one m
In which the republicans took control of the senate, that does raise the question as to whether the president s new nominee for the attorney general will be confirmed for the job. Theres some interesting wrinkles there. Well have a report on that latebreaking news. Its also going to be the subject tonight on the interview. Weve got an incredible corruption story coming up out of the deep south. It involves a really, really good local journalist and the better part of a billion dollars in a Corruption Case in a very poor state. That amazing story is coming up later on in the show tonight and more. We start tonight in colorado. The top of the ticket, headline results in california elections were, of course, that mark udol lost his seat to a republican congressman named corey gardener. Democrats had control in both chambers of the Colorado Legislature heading into this election. And, as of right now, they still dont know whos going to be controlling the senate after this election. In colo