So there were more Prisoners Released since any point since 2009. The 54 men who have been cleared from the weeds out of the 122 that still remain there. And we and others are pushing for their release as soon as possible as soon as they can be transferred to countries where they will be protected from rights violations. We need to prosecute the people against whom there is genuine evidence of wrongdoing. And we need to release the rest. So as i talked about earlier, this is one way of doing it hopefully not a hideous case like this one, thats another way of doing it, we see a greater momentum but far more needs to be done if this is going to close before president obama leaves office. The map we have time for one more question. I want to know if you feel as his lawyer that you have enough opportunity to get your hands on all of the information and that includes how if it was proven, that it was torture, and is in background enough to throw out any case against somebody . To answer the
Decision to publish what is commonly known as the torture report. I am rick macarthur, the publisher of harpers magazine. How many harpers magazineer subscribers here . We have a few. I am delith to welcome you to what i hope is the first of book culture. Book culture columbia is a proud new bookstore in upper manhattan manhattans west side. Harpers magazine is an independent outlet for the bet in American Literature with fiction, reporting, criticism and photography. As part owner we hope to work with chris dublin over there. Definitely give a hand. As often as we can to bring in authors and issues to the fore in front of audiences who are readers and book buyers. Tonight we are lucky to discuss the Senate Intelligence Committee Book on torture. Senator Diane Feinstein expo of the Central Intelligence program in the wake of 9 11. This is published by Melville House house and who else would have converted this massive, but readable text into a book in such a short time. We will talk to
Legend bill miller. Well discuss his long bullish eye on amazon. He recently called the company the best run in the world. And we have david faber on that coming up as well, looking forward to that. Heres how weve done so far today. A bit of volatility here and there, but for the most part, just down 48 points on the Dow Jones Industrial average, now trading at 16,798. 17,000 a mere 110 points away. Weve got the nasdaq up, though, up seven points. The Technology Stocks doing well again today relative to the other blue chips, and the s p is down 2 1 2 points right now, trading at 1,954. Lets get to our Closing Bell Exchange for this friday. Rich peterson from s b capital iq, joe duran from united capital, diane jaffray, mr. Arthur cashin from ubs joins us, and we are always pleased to have Rick Santelli with us as well. Arthur, we talked in this program yesterday around this time about the futility once in a while, trying to assign meaning to days activity in the markets here. But you k
Ive been disinvited. [inaudible] [laughter] [applause] a prankster who became the mayor of iceland following the 2008 financial crisis talks about the events that led to the economic collapse his plans to reform the countrys Economic System and efforts to stop the government and nato from using the city for military purposes. He spoke about his book at the Melville House in brooklyn new york. Hello and welcome to Melville House. I am the publisher along with my wife valerie and im here today with john gnarr who until a month ago was the mayor in iceland which might make you think that he was a politician, but that is not the case. Hes a comedian, actor, writer, punk rocker, tv star and a lot of other things that dont normally add up to major. He is in fact demand that said the only time hes ever been in a city hall previously was when he was walking by and one of his children have to g had to go toe bathroom urgency. [laughter] but when the economy collapsed in 2008 and people took to
Bezos purchases the Washington Post. Year, amazon inked a 600 million Cloud Computing deal with the cia. Now the founder owns the most important newspaper in washington. We will speak to media critics as well as book publisher Dennis Johnson. In the view of american publishers, they are a threat. They have been discounting books so severely they have done great damage to the markets and publishers have been really struggling as to how to control that. We will also speak to mother jones reporter mac mcclelland, author of i was a warehouse wage slave my brief, backbreaking, rageinducing, lowpaying, dildopacking time inside the onlineshipping machine. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Yemeni officials claim to have foiled a plot to blow up key oil locations. Officials say the motives of the planned attack appears to be retaliation for the u. S. Killing a deputyalshihri, health today in the arabian peninsula. A military jet has reduced