The series reveals how beatings, sleep deprivation, and other brutal tactics have led to persistent Mental Health problems among men held in secret cia prisons and at guantanamo. Wewe will speak toto pulitizer e winning journalist james risen. And dr. Stephen xenakis evaluated many of the guantanamo prisoners. Then to the White Helmets. We have a motto. To save a life is to save all of humanity. Amy the White Helmets have been credited with saving over 60,000 people from the rubble of buildings in wartorn syria. We will speak with the director of a new documentary about them. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Donald trump is facing a barrage of accusations of Sexual Harassment and assault from multiple women, including a journalist, two former miss usa beauty pageant conontestants, ad two women who told the New York Times trump sexually assaulted them. Groping their bodies or kissing their lips without
The series reveals how beatings, sleep deprivation, and other brutal tactics have led to persistent Mental Health problems among men held in secret cia prisons and at guantanamo. Wewe will speak toto pulitizer e winning journalist james risen. And dr. Stephen xenakis evaluated many of the guantanamo prisoners. Then to the White Helmets. We have a motto. To save a life is to save all of humanity. Amy the White Helmets have been credited with saving over 60,000 people from the rubble of buildings in wartorn syria. We will speak with the director of a new documentary about them. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Donald trump is facing a barrage of accusations of Sexual Harassment and assault from multiple women, including a journalist, two former miss usa beauty pageant conontestants, ad two women who told the New York Times trump sexually assaulted them. Groping their bodies or kissing their lips without
Not close. And four years later in an environment that is more hostile, kay hagan comes pretty close to winning a senate seat despite 125 million being spent, and she did that in large part because we turned out tens of thousands of more of the most disenfranchised people in the country in a state where republicans shortened the early vote period from two weeks to one week and eliminated a lot of the easilyaccessible voting sites for africanamericans and for young people. Thats the lesson that democrats have to take. Theres no question there are a lot of disappointed democrats and my message to them is take a few days, have a drink or two, get a little bit of rest, pick yourself back up because theres an election in two years and thats what we should be looking at over the next couple of months for what is going to definitely be another election cycle. The one candidate for president to did go to campaign with gary peters is the senator elect. What is next for you . I think i have four
We begin with a major set back for the National Securitys bulk phones collection today. Ed program goes beyond what congress envisioned under the patriot act. And lisa stark join us and what did they say about it, and how is the Obama Administration reacting . Well, tony, the court soundly rejected the rationale used by first the Bush Administration and now the Obama Administration to justify this massive collection of phone records. They were collecting the length of time and the date though not the contact. The government argued that this data could be relevant to future terrorism investigations, but the court found such an expansive concept of relevance is unprecedented and unwarranted. This is pretty enormous ruling today for the court to hold that a program that the u. S. Government was implementing for over a decade was unlikely under what congress passed. Now, it was nsa documents leaked by Edward Snowden, back in 2013, that revealed the extent of this phone surveillance program
Collection of phone records is illegal. We will speak with Jameel Jaffer. What will congress do . Then to guantanamos child. Public has been so much better than anticipated. Amy the 28yearold canadian born omar khadr has been freed on bail. He was detained when he was just 15. He became the first person since world war ii to be prosecuted and a war crimes tribunal for acts committed as a juvenile. With the Obama Administration asking congress to increase funding for Charter Schools by him is 50 , a new study by the center for media and democracy finds the federal government has spent 3. 3 billion feelings a Charter School industry already. Where has the money gone . All that and more coming up. Amy welcome to democracy now democracy now. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The court of appeals has rolled the nsas collection of bulk phone records is illegal. In a unanimous decision on thursday, a threejudge panel called the phone records collection unprecedented and unwarrant