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With Imagine Flatbush 2030, the community of Flatbush hopes to include their plans and concerns in the inevitable development of the Brooklyn neighborhood. Also, we examine what will be at stake when the Supreme Court will rule on Wednesday in a case on Prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. Also, an analysis of Bush's White House press conference about the new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran. And, Mormonism explained.
Questions on Iran
We take the live White House press conference where President Bush answered questions about the new National Intelligence Estimate that said Iran had halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003. Steve Clemons, of the New America Foundation and the TheWashingtonNote.com, gives us the play by play.
Explaining Mormonism
Jan Shipps, Professor Emeritus of History and Religious Studies at Indiana University, explains some facts about Mormonism and Mitt Romney.
Making Jane Jacobs Proud in Flatbush
Susan Siegel, outgoing executive director of the Flatbush Development Corporation (FDC)and Zenobia McNally, local resident and business owner and Eve Baron, director of The Municipal Art Society Planning Center and the project manager for Imagine Flatbush 2030, discuss their efforts to create a community-directed development plan for Brooklyn's Flatbush neighborhood.
Go Go Gitmo!
Jonathan Hafetz, Counsel in the Liberty and National Security program at the Brennen Center for Justice, and David Rivkin, Attorney at Baker & Hostetler in Washington, DC and former Reagan and Bush administration official, discuss the Supreme Court's ruling on prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay.
National Intelligence Estimate: Iran
Robert Baer, intelligence columnist for Time.com, former CIA field officer and author, and Shane Harris, the intelligence correspondent for National Journal, talk about the information on Iran's nuclear capacity found in the NIE report.
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