Cora Currier

Cora Currier, of The Intercept, and Trevor Aaronson, executive director of the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting, join us to discuss The Intercept’s “The FBI’s Secret Rules.”

What recent news stories (local, national, or international) have been overshadowed by election news? Listeners and journalists report back.

Following the The Intercept's release of secret documents regarding the US drone program, a look at the vague, misleading language used by the Administration to describe drone attacks.

There have been nine reported drone strikes reported in Yemen in the past two weeks, and there have been as many as six civilian deaths reported. Cora Currier, ProPublica Reporting Fellow, talks about drone strikes and whether the United States is paying families when drone strikes kill innocent Yemenis. She’s investigated in her article “Does the U.S. Pay Families When Drones Kill Innocent Yemenis?”

 

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress yesterday that he warned UK officials about problems with the LIBOR interbank lending rate as early as four years ago. ProPublica’s Cora Currier joins us to explain the ongoing LIBOR scandal.