The Brian Lehrer Show

Rudy's Time

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

While Rudy Giuliani was dubbed “America’s Mayor” after 9/11, the creators of a new documentary called Giuliani Time want to highlight his New York policies as he considers a run for the presidency. Plus: the latest on the NSA and telephone companies, FDNY counselors look at what has and has not worked in treating World Trade Center survivors and Ian Buruma and Irshad Manji on Somali-born, Dutch parliamentarian Ayaan Hirsi Ali's blend of liberal and conservative politics.

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Bugging Out

Mark Hosenball, investigative journalist at Newsweek,
- on the latest in the NSA wiretapping story
and
Jeff Battcher, Vice President of Corporate Communications, BellSouth,
- says his company did not provide phone records to the NSA

» Bellsouth
» Hold the Phone

Loss Lessons

Paul Greene, associate professor and chair of the psychology department at Iona College, a firehouse clinician for the Counseling Services Unit of the FDNY
and
Dianne Kane, assistant director of the FDNY Counseling Services Unit, adjunct associate professor at Hunter College
co-authors, FDNY Crisis Counseling: Innovative Responses to 9/11 Firefighters, Families, and Communities (Wiley, 2006)
- on what was learned by crisis counselors in helpling with 9/11 responders

» Professor Greene's website
» FDNY Counseling Services Unit

Giuliani's Time

Kevin Keating, director of the film, Giuliani Time,
and
Clyde Haberman, metro columnist for The New York Times,
- talks about Keating's documentary and the Mayor, pre- and post- 9/11

» Giuliani Time

In Dutch with the Dutch

Ian Buruma, journalist and author, Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance (Penguin USA, forthcoming) and Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies (Penguin Press, 2004)
and
Irshad Manji, author, The Trouble with Islam Today (St. Martin's Press, paperback 2005)
- on Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the tolerance of intolerance

» Ian Buruma's website
» Irshad Manji's website