When a Central Intelligence official anonymously published a book earlier this year that was highly critical of the way the war on terror is being conducted, he was at first allowed to speak freely to the media. But now The Brian Lehrer Show has become the first news program over which the Central Intelligence Agency has exercised its right of veto. Also, Monday morning politics, a possible biological cause for anorexia, and Mo Rocca deconstructs the decades.
Donkeys and Elephants
Karen Tumulty Time Magazine National Political Correspondent on the Presidential campaigns and the news from the Sunday shows
Anonymous, Silenced
Christina Davidson editor of "Imperial Hubris" by anonymous (Brassey's, 2004) says the CIA is muzzling her author
Open Phones
Listeners call in with their thoughts on the threat levels
The Skinny of Food Disorders
Ellen Ruppel Shell Professor at Boston University - Graduate Program in Science Journalism also Correspondent for http://www.theatlantic.com/ Atlantic Monthly and author, The Hungry Gene: The Science of Fat and the Future of Thin (Grove Press, 2003) on a new theory on the roots of Anorexia
I'm Loving It
Mo Rocca contributor to I Love the 90s on VH1, Host of “Things I Hate About You” on Bravo TV reminisces about the 1970s, 80s and 90s
Watch and Learn
News that a European group will monitor the Presidential elections might be a little humbling for the powers that be. Officials from the OSCE will send over observers to monitor balloting in November to avoid potential irregularities. Although the US signed up to an agreement to monitor ...
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