The Leonard Lopate Show
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Monday, February 06, 2006
The White House's surveillance program stirred up a lot of controversy. Now the Bush administration may turn wiretapping into a political asset. Also: who owns the past? The Met recently decided to return a 2,500 year old vase to Italy. We look into what cultural property means, and who should be the caretakers.
Let's Wiretap!
We look into the White House response to the wiretapping controversy. Will the Bush administration turn it into a political asset?
Leonard talks to Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping and fellow at the World Policy Institute in New York. Also, Mike Allen, White House correspondent for Time Magazine.
Who Owns the Past?
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has just decided to return a 2,500 year old vase to Italy. The Italians have long held that the vase was being wrongfully held in the U.S.
Who should own antiquities? What does it mean to be a caretaker of the past?
We look into ruins and restitution with David Hurst Thomas, archaeologist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History; and Dorothy King, British archaeologist and author of the recent book The Elgin Marbles.
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