The Brian Lehrer Show

Zacarias Moussaoui

Witless for the Prosecution?

Thursday, March 16, 2006

The judge overseeing the Zacarias Moussaoui case has said "in all my years on the bench, I've never seen a more egregious violation of the rule about witnesses." When a federal lawyer broke protocol in talking with a witness, did she doom the high-profile prosecution?

Today's Guest Host: Daljit Dhaliwal

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Witless for the Prosecution?

Paul W. Butler, former prosecutor in the Africa Embassy bombings trial; member of the Council on Foreign Relations now in private practice in Washington D.C.
and
Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor for Slate.com, Supreme Court correspondent, and co-author of Me v. Everybody: Absurd Contracts for an Absurd World (Workman, 2003)

» "Did Zacarias Moussaoui really 'cause' 9/11?" on Slate.

Cash Flow

Michelle Singletary writes "The Color of Money," a column on personal finance, for the Washington Post and is the author of Your Money and Your Man: How You and Prince Charming Spend Well and Live Rich(Random House 2006)
a book dispensing advice on money and relationships.

»Michelle Singletary's website

"With Tax Season Come Questions" by Michelle Singletary in the Washington Post.

The Nature of Man

Elizabeth Kolbert, staff writer for the New Yorker; author of Field Notes From a Catastrophe : Man, Nature and Climate Change (Bloomsbury, 2006)
- says climate change is real, whether we like it or not.

» Field Notes (Bloomsbury)
» Elizabeth Kolbert's articles in the New Yorker.