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We begin with the release of post-9/11 torture and rendition report by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence which has been held up for years and is heavily redacted. John Bradshaw, the Executive Director of the National Security Network joins us to discuss the partisan political divide in response to the report as Republicans, with the exception of Senators Lindsey Graham and John McCain, defend torture and those that perpetrated it, while Democrats and the White House defend the report and the need to make it public. We will also examine why the author of the legal justification for the Bush Administration’s use of torture, John Yoo, was not held to account.

Part 2

Then we speak with Dr. Steven Miles, a professor of Medicine and Bioethics at the University of Minnesota Medical School and author of “Oath Betrayed: America’s Torture Doctors”. He joins us to discuss the role of CIA doctors in monitoring and resuscitating torture victims and the key role played by two psychologists who were paid more than $81 million as contractors to carry out the program along with a multi-year indemnification of more than $1 million. We also look into whether Condoleezza Rice will be held to account since she more than Dick Cheney seems to have authorized and directed the torture and rendition regime.

Part 3

Then finally we get an update on where the issue of campus rape stands following the retraction by Rolling Stone of much of their expose on gang rape by fraternities at the University of Virginia. Casey Corcoran, a Program Director with the Children’s Program at Future Without Violence, who works on issues of dating violence, domestic violence and sexual health and healthy conflict resolution, joins us. We will discuss how progress can be made since many apologists for campus rape are using the shoddy reporting by Rolling Stone as an excuse to deny the nationwide problem of sexual violence on campuses.  

Full Program

Part 1

We begin with the failed attempt in Yemen to rescue hostages killed by militants before U.S. Special Forces were able to free an American photojournalist and a South African working for a charity that had already paid a ransom for his release which was due on Sunday. We will speak with an expert on Yemen, Charles Schmitz, the President of the American Institute of Yemeni Studies to get an understanding of how much the government in the capital Sanaa is in control of this divided country that is not just a haven for the so-called Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, but appears to be caught up in a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran.

Part 2

Then, with North Korea denying involvement in the hacking of Sony Pictures while praising the hacking as “a righteous deed”, we will examine the apparent gap between military hacking capabilities and civilian defenses following the hacking of almost 50,000 Social Security numbers and personal details on movies stars, along with unreleased Sony movies that were made available on pirate sites. Alan Paller, the Director of Research at the SANS Institute, who directs their Internet Storm Center, the early warning system for the Internet and the annual “Greatest Risks in Cyber Security” study, joins us to discuss how vulnerable civilian commercial data is to military-grade attacks and what defensive measures could be taken.

Part 3

Then finally we look into the rewriting of history underway in Japan that is being encouraged by Japan’s right wing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who along with ultranationalists, are attacking the leading left-of-center newspaper Asahi Shimbun and their investigative journalist Takashi Uemura who wrote about how Chinese, Korean, Filipino, Dutch and Australian so-called “comfort women” were forced to work in Imperial Army military brothels during World War 11. Thomas Berger, a Professor of International Relations at Boston University and the author of “War, Guilt and World Politics After World War 11” joins us to discuss the Japanese right wing’s assault on history.