Democracy Now - 17 jun 2010 torrent

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Headlines for June 17, 2010

- BP Agrees to $20B Fund for Oil Spill Compensation Claims
- BP Chair Apologizes for "Small People" Remark
- BP Privately Estimated Higher Spill Rate Than It Publicly Disclosed
- Israel Alters Gaza Siege; Maintains Naval Blockade and Ban on Building Materials
- 4 Soldiers Charged in Afghan Civilian Deaths
- U.S. Unveils New Iran Sanctions
- Univ. of Puerto Rico Students Declare Victory in 2-Month Strike
- U.S. Citizen Barred From Returning Following Yemen Visit
- Dems Help Defeat Jobless Benefits Extension
- Former Mortgage Exec Indicted for Alleged Fraud Scheme
- Prop 8 Trial Concludes in California


Special reports

- With Rumored Manhunt for Wikileaks Founder and Arrest of Alleged Leaker of Video Showing Iraq Killings, Obama Admin Escalates Crackdown on Whistleblowers of Classified Information

Pentagon investigators are reportedly still searching for Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange, who helped release a classified US military video showing a US helicopter gunship indiscriminately firing on Iraqi civilians. The US military recently arrested Army Specialist Bradley Manning, who may have passed on the video to Wikileaks. The arrest of Bradley Manning and the hunt for Assange has put the spotlight on the Obama administration’s campaign against whistleblowers and leakers of classified information. We speak to Daniel Ellsberg, who’s leaking of the Pentagon Papers has made him perhaps the nation’s most famous whistleblower; Birgitta Jonsdottir, a member of the Icelandic Parliament who has collaborated with WikiLeaks and drafted a new Icelandic law protecting investigative journalists; and Glenn Greenwald, political and legal blogger for Salon.com.


- Jeremy Scahill on Blackwater Owner Erik Prince’s Rumored Move to UAE and Obama Admin’s Expansion of Special Forces Operations Abroad

The Justice department has told a federal appeals court there was more than enough untainted evidence to justify a trial for the five Blackwater Worldwide guards involved in the 2007 Nissour Square massacre in Baghdad. In court papers seeking to reinstate criminal charges that were dismissed last year, the Justice department said the judge

"unjustifiably drew the curtain on a meritorious prosecution." This legal development comes amidst a report that Erik Prince, the owner and founder of the the notorious private security firm, could be planing a move to the United Arab Emirates, a country that has no extradition treaty with the United States. We speak to independent journalist Jeremy Scahill.

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