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The Brian Lehrer Show

Friday, August 12, 2005
  • Mohammed Atta
    Mohammed Atta

    Intelligence Matters

    New reports suggest that Able Danger, a covert military program, was following Mohammed Atta a year before the 9/11 attacks. But the information was never shared with other agencies because Atta had entered the country legally. Now some on Capitol Hill want a fuller explanation.

Intelligence Matters

Philip Shenon, Reporter for the New York Times
- on an obsure military unit called Able Danger, that identified some of the 9/11 hijackers a year before the attacks

Historic Record

David McCraw general counsel for the New York Times
and
Glenn Corbett professor of Fire Science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice
- on the release of tapes and transcripts about September 11th by the New York City Fire Department


» New York Times
» John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Getting dirty in the Garden State

Herb Jackson Trenton columnist, The Record of Bergen County, NJ
- on the Governor's race in New Jersey

Flash That Winning Smile!

Robin Givhan, Washington Post writer
and
Sridhar Pappu, Atlantic Monthly correspondent
-on John Bolton, John Roberts, and the importance of good looks in Washington

» "Bolton's Hair: No Brush With Greatness" (The Washington Post) "An Image A Little Too Carefully Coordinated" (The Washington Post)
» "The Holy Cow! Candidate " (The Atlantic Monthly)

In Deep Water

Pete Seeger, folk singer and activist and co-founder and vice president of the River Pool at Beacon
and
Alan Zollner, a director of the River Pool at Beacon,
-want to build a pool in the Hudson River at Beacon
» The River Pool at Beacon

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