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There’s something powerful about the human voice. Something personal, and real, and revealing. This is why I love these radio programs.

In depth reporting that we don’t find on network television- though you can find it on the National Geographic channel, Discovery, or The Learning Channel.

Stories, in which I get to hear real people talking. Real monkeys fighting. Footsteps crunching on gravel.

Today I found something that every American should hear.

Interviews with prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. Comments by George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Alberto Gonzales. A history of the right of Habeus Corpus.

This is the kind of thing we should all be thinking about- the kind of thing we must all know as we are making our way through life.

While you’re washing dishes, folding laundry, or walking your dog, listen to Habeas Schmabeas.

The latest ironic turn in the Valerie Plame investigation:

NEW YORK What was Valerie Plame working on at the CIA when she was outed by administraton officials and columnist Robert Novak? MSNBC’s David Schuster on Monday said he had confirmed an earlier report that she was helping to keep track of Iran’s nuclear activity–not a front and center issue for the White House.

Earlier this year, Larisa Alexandrovna of the Web site RawStory.com, reported that Plame, whose covert status was compromised in the leak, was monitoring weapons proliferation in Iran. At the time, officials told her that Plame’s outing resulted in “severe” damage to her team and “significantly hampered the CIA’s ability to monitor nuclear proliferation.”

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So… in an attempt to get Bush and Cheney re-elected, the Bush-Cheney administration leaked information that compromised the team that was watching over Iran’s nuclear program. Three years later, Bush is offering threats to Iran that sound chillingly like those he was shouting at Iraq before he sent in the troops.

If he was really serious about Iran’s nuclear program, one would think he wouldn’t out his own undercover agent.
I guess back then, national security was less important than his re-election.

It’s good to know where a person’s priorities are.