Airwaves & Liberty

SPECIAL LIVE COVERAGE: Pacifica Radio presents the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Bush Administration’s torture policies, live from Capitol Hill, anchored by Larry Bensky

DATE: Thursday, June 26, 2008
TIMES: 9:00AM – 2:00PM EDT (6:00AM – 11:00AM PDT)

Streamed live at Pacifica.org.

The House Judiciary Committee will hear from David Addington, Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the Vice President, and Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John C. Yoo. Pacifica Radio will broadcast the hearing live, starting at 9:00AM Eastern (6:00AM Pacific), Thursday, June 26, with its veteran Washington correspondent Larry Bensky as anchor.

Among the issues expected to be discussed are the use of stress and torture in interrogations, why many senior FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) officials failed to take strong actions after identifying interrogation abuses, and the recent Supreme Court 5-4 decision upholding habeas corpus rights at Guantanamo.

Pacifica Radio will present constitutional and legal experts to discuss the issues involved in the hearing and will invite its listeners to present comments following the hearings. Possible pre-show and post-show guests include: Rep. John Conyers, Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, Jamie Raskin, Professor of Constitutional Law at American University, Mark Danner, Professor of Journalism, U.C. Berkeley, Scott Horton, Chair of the Committee on International Law of the Bar Association of New York City, Clive Stanford Smith, Founder and Director of “Reprieve,” London, David Bonner, Public Lawyer and Professor at University of Leicester in the UK, Laura Donahue, Fellow at the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School, and Paul Glusman, Berkeley Employment Lawyer