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Dean Talks to Democracy Now! on War, His Future, the Media
& Washington Insiders
CIA's Tenet: Iraq Posed No Imminent Threat; Hunt for WMD
Must Go On
NYPD Pays $27M to Black & Latino Officers To Settle Discrimination
Suit
Dean Talks to Democracy Now! on War, His Future,
the Media & Washington Insiders
INTRO: Presidential candidate Howard Dean speaks to us from
Wisconsin, the state where he admitted yesterday he must win
in order to keep running. Although he raised over $40 million
in fundraising, Dean's campaign is faltering after he failed
to finish better than second in the first seven races.
After nine contests in the Democratic presidential race,
the six remaining candidates look ahead to the crucial next
few weeks in the bid for the nomination.
The field stands with Senator John Kerry in a clear lead,
winning seven of nine the nine contests. Senator John Edwards
scored a big victory this week in South Carolina – where
he said he must win or drop out. Wesley Clark also picked
up his first win this week in Oklahoma. The Rev. Al Sharpton
and Congressman Dennis Kucinich trail further behind.
Howard Dean, whose best showing was second in New Hampshire,
draws the line at Wisconsin saying he must win the February
17th primary in the state or he will be forced to abandon
his campaign. Howard Dean joins us on the phone from Wisconsin.
CIA's Tenet: Iraq Posed No Imminent Threat; Hunt
for WMD Must Go On
INTRO: Former CIA analyst Melvin Goodman and Mother Jones
reporter Robert Dreyfuss discuss George Tenet's speech and
examine the role of the Pentagon's secretive Office of Special
Plans in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq.
In his first public speech in nine months, CIA Director George
Tenet Thursday said Iraq never posed an imminent threat to
the United States.
But Tenet called for the search for weapons of mass destruction
to continue in Iraq. He disputed the assertion of former US
chief weapons inspector David Kay that the hunt is 85 percent
over.
Tenet’s speech came a year to the date after Colin
Powell appeared before the United Nations to make the case
for war. At the time Powell claimed that U.S. intelligence
showed Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction and
that Saddam Hussein had ties to Al Qaeda.
On Thursday Tenet made no mention of ties between Iraq and
Al Qaeda and acknowledged that the intelligence gathered on
weapons of mass destruction has been partially flawed.
He said “In the intelligence business you are almost
never completely wrong or completely right.”
But overall he defended the CIA’s work and claimed
it never came under political pressure from the White House.
Meanwhile President Bush is expected to name members to a
presidential panel to probe the Iraq weapons controversy.
The Associated Press is reporting that one of the members
will be Sen. John McCain. On Sunday, Bush is scheduled to
discuss the Iraq controversy during a rare one-on-one televised
interview with Tim Russert on Meet the Press.
- Melvin Goodman, former CIA and State Department analyst.
He is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy
and director of the Center?s National Security Project.
- Robert Dreyfuss. investigative reporter and contributing
editor at Mother Jones, the Nation and American Prospect.
His article “The Lie Factory: How a Secret Pentagon
Unit Created the Case for Invading Iraq” appears in
the new issue of Mother Jones.
Link: www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/01/12_405.html
NYPD Pays $27M to Black & Latino Officers To
Settle Discrimination Suit
INTRO: A groundbreaking settlement has been reached in a
1999 lawsuit in which nearly four-dozen cops argued that their
working conditions were hostile; that they were more severely
punished than white officers in cases of disciplinary action;
and they faced retaliation if they challenged their treatment.
New York authorities have agreed to pay more than $26.8 million
to settle a federal class-action lawsuit by Latino and black
police officers.
Nearly four-dozen cops brought the case in 1999, arguing
that their working conditions were hostile; that they were
more severely punished than white officers in cases of disciplinary
action; and they faced retaliation if they challenged their
treatment.
The settlement means that about 12,000 Latino and black officers
could now be eligible for damages. The city's police department
has also agreed to make a series of internal changes to its
operations. The city in the consent decree admitted no wrongdoing.
- Anthony Miranda, Executive Chairman of the National Latino
Officers Association
Link: www.nloalc.com
- Richard Levy, attorney representing the officers.
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