Jason Leopold on the Monitor, 6 pm CST, re Plame, Echelon, Enron

[SophieZ]

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February 12, 2006: The Monitor


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<> 6:00 pm CST -- HEADLINES, including Paul Krugman discussing the potential decline of the US dollar.

<> ~ 6:20 pm CST -- JASON LEOPOLD, investigative journalist



We'll talk with journalist Jason Leopold about several hot topics today -- the Valerie Plame story; NSA spying and Echelon; and the Enron trial.

He writes weekly for Truthout. He has covered Enron and the California energy crisis extensively, with over 2000 stories. His stories have been carried by The Nation, Salon, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, AlterNet, Common Dreams, and Z Magazine. Jason is former Los Angeles bureau chief of Dow Jones Newswires. Jason is based in California.

His new book, "News Junkie," is due out in April. About the new book, Greg Palast has written:

"I love this book... When other US reporters were licking Ken Lay's loafers, Leopold went for Enron's thieving throat. ...The book is worth the price just for exposing the craven toadies of the New York Times ... Bravo and my personal Pulitzer to Jason Leopold. Every journalist in America should read this, then quit or riot."

WEBSITES:
www.jasonleopold.com
www.truthout.org

ARTICLE:
The NSA Spy Engine: Echelon http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010806A.shtml

BOOK:
News Junkie: A Memoir, by Jason Leopold, pub date April 28, 2006


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February 5
-- DANNY SCHECTER, media critic

January 29
-- JAMES BAMFORD, expert on the NSA
-- BOB FERTIK of Democrats.com with an update on the push to filibuster Alito

January 22
-- DAVID SWANSON, co-founder of After Downing Street
-- ROBERT PARRY of Consortium News.com, re Alito filibuster

January 15
-- MARJORIE COHN of the National Lawyers Guild and ELLIE SMEAL, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, on the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court

January 8
-- RAY McGOVERN , former 27-year NSA veteran and a founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.
-- BILL GOODMAN, legal director of the Center for Constititional Rights
THEY DISCUSSED NSA SPYING ON US CITIZENS and the BUSH SECRET SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM THAT WENT OUTSIDE THE LAW.

January 1
-- MARK CRISPIN MILLER re how we got elections we can't trust
-- DAVE BERMAN re grass roots activism to get elections we trust

December 25 (previous segments, rebroadcast)
-- JULES ARCHER archival interviews, re the attempted coup against FDR in 1934
-- DAVID RAY GRIFFIN re questions about September 11

December 18
-- Former Diplomat ANN WRIGHT on peace efforts
-- MARC ROTENBERG on privacy and government surveillance

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Say Hi to Otie, Scooter and Wendy for me!

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