The Brian Lehrer Show: The Final Hearings

The Brian Lehrer Show

The Final Hearings

Monday, June 14, 2004

The 9/11 Commission’s final public hearings take place this week in Washington. The focus will be the 9/11 plot and the government’s response, but WNYC’s Bob Hennelly says there are still outstanding questions about uniformed services’ communications equipment. Alos, "The Corporation", smaller telephone service providers get pushed out of local markets, and Irish voters restrict the right to citizenship.

Final Hearings

Bob Hennelly WNYC New Jersey correspondent and a contributing editor for New Jersey Monthly on the final 9/11 Commission hearings on National Crisis Management and the weekend in politics

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Corp Values

Joel Bakan Co-Creator and Writer of The Corporation The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (Free Press, 2004) on the intrusive presence of corporations in the world and Mark Achbar Co-Director of The Corporation

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Hey Jube

Jube Shiver, Jr. technology writer for the Los Angeles Times

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Can You Hear Me Now?

Lincoln Hoewing Assistant Vice President for Internet and Technology, Verizon discusses the federal telecommunications act and Jason Oxman general council for the Association of Local Telecommunications Services (ALTS)

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Only Irish Need Apply

Carol Coulter Legal affairs correspondent for the Irish Times on the Irish referendum denying citizenship to foreign nationals born in the country

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Only Irish Need Apply

40 million Americans claim Irish descent, and many of them can also claim Irish citizenship. That's because Irish law grants the grandchild of any Irish citizen the automatic right to become Irish too. For many years, it was a sentimental gesture of little real value to anyone.

But today, with one of the best economies in Europe, Ireland has become a magnet for immigrants from Eastern Europe and Asia. A country of net emigration has become a hot immigration destination, and the children of those immigrants born in Ireland have been considered Irish under the law.

Until last Sunday. That's when a majority of Irish voted to do away with "birthright" citizenship and impose a system closer to the European norm, where linguistic ability and the intention to reside in the country must be proven.

On the show today, we discussed the matter with Carol Coulter, legal affairs correspendent for the Irish Times. While many of our listeners thought the move churlish, others felt a small country like Ireland had to do something to protect its traditions. Listener feedback.

On the show tomorrow: British Muslim comedienne Shazi Mirza.

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