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CIA Refuses to Release "Dynamite" Report on 9/11 Accountability
Daughter of 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Wangari Maathai
Discusses her Mother, Kenya and the Environment
First and Final Edition: NY Actor Wally Shawn Discusses the
First and Last Issue of His Journal
Noam Chomsky on the State of the Nation, Iraq and the Election
CIA Refuses to Release "Dynamite" Report
on 9/11 Accountability
The CIA is ignoring calls from members of the House Intelligence
Committee to release an internal report on whether agency
employees should be held accountable for intelligence failures
leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks. We speak with Los Angeles
Times columnist Robert Scheer who broke the story.
The ranking members of the House Intelligence Committee have
called on the CIA to turn over an internal report on whether
agency employees should be held accountable for intelligence
failures leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks.
An intelligence official told the New York Times that the
report was not finished and that "the matter is still
under review."
Some Democratic lawmakers have questioned whether the report
is being withheld to avoid embarrassment for the Bush administration
in the final weeks before the presidential election. So far
no agency employee has been fired or faced other disciplinary
measures in connection with Sept. 11.
The review, by the CIA's inspector general, was sought in
December 2002 by the joint Congressional committee that investigated
intelligence failures leading up to the 9/11 attacks.
In a written statement, Democratic Congressman Rush Holt
of New Jersey said the CIA report concludes that senior intelligence
officials "failed to do all that they could have to prevent
the attacks, and that White House officials were not as focused
on the al Qaeda threat as previously asserted."
Daughter of 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Wangari
Maathai Discusses her Mother, Kenya and the Environment
We speak with the Wanjira Maathai, daughter of Kenyan environmentalist
Wangari Maathai who was recently awarded the 2004 Nobel Peace
Prize. Wanjira is the international liaison for the world-renowned
Green Belt Movement which was founded by her mother.
Earlier this month, Kenyan environmentalist Wangarai Maathai
was named the winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. Wangarai
Maathai is an ecologist and zoology professor from Kenya and
the first woman from Africa to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
She is 63 years old. She rose to international fame for campaigns
against government-backed forest clearances in Kenya in the
late 1980s and 1990s.
She once said of the forest clearances "It's a matter
of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are
facing extinction and it is a man-made problem."
In 1992 riot police clubbed her and three other women unconscious
in central Nairobi during a demonstration. She has been tear
gassed, threatened with death by anonymous callers, and once
thrown into jail overnight for leading protests.
- Wangari Maathai, speaking about the violence she faces
in Kenya.
Earlier this month the Nobel Prize Committee named Wangari
Maathai as the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. This is what she had
to say about winning the award:
- Wangari Maathai, speaking about the violence she faces
in Kenya.
Wangari Maathai founded the Green
Belt Movement in 1977, when began what turned out to be
a 30-year old campaign of re-forestation by planting just
nine trees. Today about 30 million trees have been planted
across Africa since her campaign started. The trees helped
check desertification, promote bio-diversity, created food
and jobs especially for rural women.
Wangari's daughter, Wanjira Maathai joins in our studio today.
She is the international liaison for the Green Belt Movement
and is a rising figure in Kenyan and international environmental,
women's and social justice movements.
- Wanjira Maathai, international liaison for the world-renowned
Green Belt Movement of Kenya. The Green Belt movement was
founded by her mother, Wangari Maathai who was recently
awarded the 2004 Nobel Peace prize, becoming the first African
woman and first environmentalist to win the award. Wanjira
is a rising figure in Kenyan and international environmental,
women's and social justice movements.
First and Final Edition: NY Actor Wally Shawn Discusses
the First and Last Issue of His Journal
Actor and playwright Wally Shawn joins us in our studio
to talk about the first and last edition of his newspaper.
It's called "Final Edition: Volume One, Number One, The
Last Issue."
You may know him from his roles in: "Manhattan",
"The Princess Bride", "We're No Angels",
"Clueless", "Toy Story", "Vegas Vacation"
and "Star Trek." In 1981, he wrote and acted in
the film "My Dinner with Andre."
He has appeared in scores of TV shows and is a published
author and playwright. Several of his plays have been produced
off-Broadway, including Marie and Bruce, Aunt Dan and Lemon,
and The Designated Mourner. His latest play The Fever, has
just been released as a film, starring Vanessa Redgrave.
And he has now put out the first and last edition of a newspaper.
It's called Final Edition: Volume One, Number One, The Last
Issue.
I'm talking about New York actor and playwright Wally Shawn.
- Wallace Shawn, editor of the one-off political magazine
Final Issue published in conjunction with Seven Stories.
He is a playwright and author. Several of his plays have
been produced off-Broadway, including Marie and Bruce, Aunt
Dan and Lemon, and The Designated Mourner. His play The
Fever, has just been released as a film, starring Vanessa
Redgrave. Shawn has appeared in over 60 films and many television
shows
Noam Chomsky on the State of the Nation, Iraq and
the Election
A conversation with linguist, author and leading dissident
Noam Chomsky on the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the presidential
election, and the current state of the country.
- Noam Chomsky, interviewed in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
October 18, 2004. Chomsky is a professor of linguistics
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author
of dozens of books, including the recent Hegemony or Survival
and 9/11.
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