Linking the murder of a dnc staffer last year to the wikileaks publication of internal dnc emails. Look at the shocking story of how u. S. Customs and Border Protection agents told a 16yearold mexican teenager to drink from a bottle of liquid meth at a border checkpoint in san diego, causing him to die from an acute drug overdose. My brother is dead. He was in pain. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The New York Times is reporting the Justice Department is preparing to investigate and sue universities for affirmative action policies, in the latest assault against civil rights by attorney general Jeff Sessions. The times says the Justice Department sent out an internal announcement looking for lawyers to lead up, quote, investigations and possible litigation related to intentional racebased discrimination in college and university admissions. Quote. The Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality
Hiding in plain sight the pursuit of war criminals from nuremberg to the war on terror, a great death. Debt. Reat the author lively writing ensures it can be read by all of us. One of the cases the book examines is the the special courts prosecutor who masterminded the attempt to bring taylor to justice. He said the success or failure of prosecutions hinges on a full understanding of politics and diplomacy to ensure justice at the end of the day. Reading chapters over the last few days, i was amazed at the complexity of the efforts, legal, logistical, international to bring war criminals like Charles Taylor to justice. Knowught of a young man i from sierra leone who just school. D from the capture and prosecution of Charles Taylor was a deeply meaningful event. Arms were hacked off by rebel soldiers who killed his parents in front of him under the rule of Charles Taylor. Think to international effort, Charles Taylor was found guilty in april 2012 of all 11 charges levied by the special
Efficiency of federal employee background checks. The Oversight Reform Committee questioned office and management of budget officials to protect federal employees personal information. This hearing is about 2. 5 hours. Committee on oversight government reform will come to order and without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. Appreciate you all being here. We have very important hearing. We have a number of members that im sure will be here, but it will be late. There is the National Prayer breakfast and getting across town at this point of the day is a difficult task. Nevertheless, glad to have you here and look forward to this important hearing. Two years ago, the office of Personnel Management suffered one of the most damaging data breaches in the history of the federal government. This went on for some time and we still, there are still Additional Details that need to be learned. But the counterintelligence value of the data that was stolen will last
You can see that live here on cspan at 7 00 p. M. Eastern. Then, sunday on cspan, utah congressman rob bishop, the chairman of the Natural Resources committee, hell talk about puerto ricos debt crisis, the u. S. Territory is 70 billion in debt and has already missed millions of dollars in debt payments. Congressman bishop will answer questions about efforts in congress to help puerto rico restructure its debt. Newsmakers on 10 00 a. M. And 6 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan unday. Book tv has 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors every weekend and here are some programs to watch for this weekend. On saturday at 10 00 p. M. Eastern on afterwards, don watkins, author of equal is unfair. Don the reason i say unequality is not a problem, its not a concern of how much money do you have but how did you get it . Did you get it through something that is fair or through a process that is unfair . And when you try to equalize people that earn honestly, thats what were challenging and saying thats no
Journalists, investigating what we now call the Panama Papers. Last year, 11. 5 million financial records for the to a german newspaper. Possibly the biggest leak in journalism history. Fonseca, oneffett of the worlds top shell companies, with 2. 6 terabytes of data. The newspaper needed help and called in the journalism troops. With such a large number of people trolling through the database, the partners needed to agree on a common strategy for collaboration, and for parsing out the research, as well as a joint promise on holding off on publishing until everyone was ready. This is something a bit foreign to the american media. We are not used to collaborating on investigations with competitors. Today, i am honored to welcome some of the participants in the Panama Papers, to talk about their work and findings. Our forum is sponsored by the npc journalism institute, the nonprofit arm of the National Press club. Please welcome, these reporters. Thank you for this invitation. Yes, we are