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Cheney Taps Torture Memo Author to Replace Scooter Libby
Oprah Winfrey, Cicely Tyson, Julian Bond, Dorothy Height
& Others Pay Tribute to Civil Rights Pioneer Rosa Parks
Cheney Taps Torture Memo Author to Replace Scooter
Libby
On Monday, Vice President Dick Cheney appointed his legal
counsel, David Addington, to be his new chief of staff following
the resignation of Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Addington
once wrote the war on terorrism has rendered the Geneva Conventions
"obsolete." We speak with investigative reporter
Murray Waas and hear former Ambassador Joseph Wilson speak
out on the outing of his wife, CIA operative Valerie Plame.
[includes rush
transcript]
Former ambassador Joseph Wilson on Monday gave his version
of events into who leaked the identity of his wife, CIA operative,
Valerie Plame - and eventually led to a White House staff
member being indicted for crimes committed in the office for
the first time in 130 years. In July 2003, Wilson published
an opinion piece in The New York Times saying that on a CIA-funded
trip to Africa in 2002, he was unable to substantiate claims
that Niger helped supply nuclear materials to Iraq. Despite
his findings, President Bush included the claim in his State
of the Union address in January 2003. Shortly after Wilson’s
newspaper article was published, his wife’s identity
as a CIA operative was leaked to the media. This is what Wilson
had to say yesterday at the National Press Club in Washington
DC.
- Joseph Wilson: “There remain two questions on the
table: why and who put the words in the address and who
ultimately will be held responsible for having compromised
the identity of a CIA operative and essentially compromising
the national security of this country.”
So far, the investigation into the CIA leak has lead to the
indictment of Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief
of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Libby was indicted
on Friday on charges of obstruction of justice, perjury and
false statements. He resigned following the indictments. President
Bush’s chief advisor Karl Rove has so far escaped indictment
for his role in the leak. He remains under investigation.
Back in August of 2003, Wilson first fingered Rove saying
"At the end of the day, it’s of keen interest to
me to see whether or not we can get Karl Rove frog-marched
out of the White House in handcuffs." In his address
yesterday, Wilson repeated his view that Rove should be fired.
- Joseph Wilson: I've said it before and I'll say it again:
I don't believe Mr. Rove should be permitted to resign.
I believe that this is a firing offence. To be so cavalier
in the handling of the secrets of this great nation really
is an abuse of the public trust."
While Karl Rove remains in the White House, Vice President
Dick Cheney has appointed his legal counsel, David Addington,
to replace Scooter Libby. Cheney also appointed John Hannah,
who had served on his national security staff since March
2001, as assistant to the vice president for national security
affairs. Libby had held both positions. Addington was referred
to by job title in the indictment of Libby on Friday, and
appears likely to be called as a witness should Libby’s
case go to trial.
- Murray Waas, investigative journalist and one of the
leading reporters in the CIA leak case. He co-authored an
article in the National Journal on Sunday about David Addington.
I spoke with him at his home in Washington DC
Oprah Winfrey, Cicely Tyson, Julian Bond, Dorothy
Height & Others Pay Tribute to Civil Rights Pioneer Rosa
Parks
On Monday, thousands of mourners filled the Metropolitian
AME church in Washington for a memorial service for the late
Rosa Parks, who died last week at the age of 92. Over the
past two days, more than 40,000 people filed past her casket
in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda Monday where her body had lain
in honor. She was the first civilian and only second woman
or African-American to receive such an honor. Speakers at
Monday's memorial included Oprah Winfrey, actress Cicely Tyson,
NAACP chair Julian Bond, civil rights pioneer Dorothy Height,
Parks' childhood friend Johnnie Carr, Del. Eleanor Holmes
Norton and NAACP President Bruce Gordon. [includes rush
transcript]
Rosa Parks is the first woman and only the second African-American
to receive the honor of lying in honor in the U.S. Capitol
Rotunda, usually reserved for Presidents, soldiers and politicians.
Rosa Parks died at her home in Detroit, Michigan last week.
She was 92 years old. Fifty years ago this December, she refused
to give up her seat to a white man aboard a city bus in Montgomery,
Alabama. She was arrested and convicted of violating the state’s
segregation laws. Her act of resistance led to a 13-month
boycott of the Montgomery bus system that would spark the
civil rights movement and inspire freedom struggles all over
the world.
After 10am on Monday morning, the casket was taken down the
steps of the East Capitol by a military honor guard of pallbearers,
followed by the Parks family. A vintage Metropolitan bus dressed
in black bunting followed the hearse, along with other city
buses to the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church
for a public memorial. More than 2,500 mourners filled the
church and hundreds crowded onto sidewalks and into the auditorium
of a nearby office building to hear or see broadcasts of the
2 1/2 -hour service. Speakers included civil rights leaders,
congressmembers, senators, pastors and longtime friends of
Rosa Parks.
- Reverend Grainger Browning Jr, pastor of Ebenezer AME
Church in Fort Washington, Maryland
- Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, (D-D.C.)
- Dorothy Height, longtime civil rights activist and president
emeritus of the National Council of Negro Women
- Johnnie Carr, Rosa Parks’ Childhood Friend and veteran
of the Montgomery bus boycott
- Julian Bond, chairman of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People and founding member of
the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
- Oprah Winfrey, the Oprah Winfrey Show, born in Mississippi
during segregation
- Cicely Tyson, award-winning African-American actress,
played Rosa Parks in the movie "The Rosa Parks Story”
- Bruce Gordon, NAACP President
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