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Today on Flashpoints:
Israel continues to pound Palestinians trapped inside the
occupied Gaza strip with 300 tank shells a day, we'll have
a special report from Ali Abunimah on the unraveling disaster
in Palestine; also, Flashpoints takes a look at leak-gate
with a former CIA intelligence official; the battle to shut
down one of the most toxic power plants in the US, in the
San Francisco community of BayView-Hunter's Point; and the
Knight Report;
5:01 PM PST
The Knight Report. Robert
Knight
5:06 PM PST
Israel fires 300 tank shells a day into Gaza
Ali Abunimah, electronicintifada.net
5:27 PM PST
PG&E Superfund Site: Toxic Pollution in BayView-Hunter's
Point
Marie Harrison, Green Action
5:42 PM PST
Bush's Leak-Gate
Larry Johnson, former CIA intelligence.
Geov Parrish, Working
For Change
Bush and the people around him appear to have genuinely believed,
for at least the four and a half years since 9-11, that the
President by definition is incapable of breaking the law.
On his sole authority laws can be ignored, overridden, or
changed. Even implicitly. Even retroactively, as when some
unappetizing piece of this puzzle inadvertently comes to the
public's attention.
Combine this with an administration more intent on secrecy
and lack of transparency than any other in U.S. history, and
you have a recipe for, well, a dictatorship. Which is exactly
what it appears Bush and company believe they are operating
in. Oh, of course, in normal times America is a democracy,
but these aren't normal times, are they? Why? Because we're
at war. Why are we at war? Because the President said so.
How long will the war last? Several generations. After that,
presumably, the Constitution will be in force again, and Congress
and the courts can re-convene if they like.
Geov Parrish is a Seattle-based columnist and reporter for
Seattle Weekly, In These Times and Eat the State! He writes
the daily Straight Shot for WorkingForChange.
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