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HOUR THREE GUEST: Founder of BERG Associates, an international business-consulting firm based in Washington, D.C. that specializes in counter terrorism and money laundering investigations and former CIA agent, Larry Johnson.

CIA INTERROGATION TAPES:
Charles Rosenberg, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, says that 2 CIA Interrogation tapes still exist.

Former CIA Agent Larry Johnson wrote: What Destroyed Torture Tapes? How can videotape be viewed in 2007 if it was supposed to be destroyed back in 2005?

Apparently the torture tapes that the CIA viewed in 2007 were foreign intelligence interrogation tapes.

Lawyers within the CIA gave written permission to destroy the tapes back in 2005.

If the tapes were not destroyed, what would they have shown?

CIA Director Michael Hayden will testify before Congress today about the destroyed CIA torture tapes.

Why is it that some news organizations won’t call it “torture”?

Leaders of the House and Senate intelligence committees knew of what went on during the CIA interrogations, but didn’t object at the time.

From Jonathan Turley: CIA Interrogation Tapes: “Bad” is Hardly the Word — Call it Criminal

WHAT IS TORTURE UNDER US LAW AND TREATIES?
As of 2004, they were our legal standards. Word search this document for Hilao v. Estate of Marcos and you'll clearly see waterboarding described as torture.

At a speaking engagement Condi Rice refused to answer questions about whether she knew or did not know about the CIA interrogation videotapes.

Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) wrote a letter to AG Michael Mukasey requesting that he answer the questions he dodged during his confirmation hearings about whether waterboarding is torture.

“The Bush Administration's Torture of U.S. Citizen Jose Padilla” by Glenn Greenwald.

TORTURE:
Former CIA agent John Kiriakou talks about waterboarding high-ranking al-Qaeda member abu Zubaida. Kiriakou said abu Zubaida broke in less than a minute and started giving information that led to the disruption of several planned attacks.

John Kiriakou called waterboarding necessary, but torture! Kiriakou also said that they carried out torture because the White House told them to.

Morris Davis, the former chief prosecutor for the Office of Military Commissions at Gitmo, talks about why he resigned saying he felt that the system had become deeply politicized and that he could no longer do his job effectively or responsibly.

MORE COVER-UPS!
A former Halliburton/KBR employee says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad. She reported the incident and the company put her under guard in a shipping container, warning her that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, she'd be out of a job. She has filed a lawsuit saying the gang-rape is being covered up by Halliburton/KBR and the government.

RANDI’S CONGRESSMAN:
After a recent email poll of about 3000 constituents in the Palm Beach-Broward district, Rep. Robert Wexler is urging hearings on the impeachment of VP Dick Cheney. The email poll results said that 61% of the people want to impeach Dick and remove him from office.

MIKE HUCKABEE:
Mike Huckabee is refusing to retract comments made back in ’92 saying that people with AIDS should be isolated because they are carriers of a plague.

Jeanne White-Ginder, the mother of an Indiana teenager who lost his battle with AIDS back in the late 1980’s, wants to have a word with Huckabee on his comments.

There are new documents that show Mike Huckabee’s support in freeing a rapist…who was released and went on to rape and murder 2 other women.

OPRAH – OBAMAPALOOZA:
Oprah is totally behind her good friend Barack Obama saying, “I think that what he stands for, what he has proven that he can stand for, what he has shown was worth me going out on a limb for – and I haven’t done it in the past because I haven’t felt that anybody, I didn’t know anybody well enough to be able to say, I believe in this person.”

Why is Oprah giving Barack Obama political leeway?

THE OCCUPATION:
House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.) said that the GOP is negotiating in bad faith, as a Democratic deal for additional war funding seems to be collapsing. Obey said "If anybody thinks we can get out of here this week, they're smoking something illegal”.

Bill Clinton told the CBS Early Show that the US did not give United Nations weapons inspectors enough time to complete their work in Iraq.

Too much, too late? The military is saying that due to improving security in Iraq, it may not need all 10,000 MRAP vehicles it originally ordered.

The military pays for vacation and recreation programs for returning soldiers with revenue from the military’s own slot machines and bingo games.

The Biden-Brownback nonbonding Iraq measure that supports the split of Iraq into federal regions is headed for Congressional approval. The amendment was tacked onto the Senate’s Department of Defense authorization bill.

IRAN:
An overseas Iranian opposition group is claiming that Iran restarted its nuclear program a year after shutting it down.

AL GORE:
Former VP Al Gore repeated yesterday that he has no plan on getting involved in this ’08 Presidential election and would not be interested in serving in any upcoming administration. He did say though that the only way he would return was to take a run at the White House.

SCOOTER:
Scooter Libby dropped his appeal in the Valerie Plame Wilson / CIA leak case.

Husband of Valerie Plame Wilson, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, released a statement regarding Scooter’s dropping of his appeal.

THE ’08 CANDIDATES:
Republican voters across the country appear to be uninspired by the field of GOP candidates.

The surging Mike Huckabee finds himself only 2% points behind front-runner Rudy Giuliani in a national poll released yesterday.

Hillary Clinton’s camp is digging for dirt on Barack Obama.

SIDEBARS:
The high court rules that Federal Judges can ignore sentencing guidelines and impose what they think are reasonable sentences.

QB Michael Vick is sentenced to 23 months for financing a dog-fighting ring.

The cause of death for Quiet Riot lead singer Kevin DuBrow has been determined to be an accidental overdose of cocaine.

Five members of the town of Potrero, CA’s planning group are expected to lose their posts in a recall election over their approval of a Blackwater training camp near the town.

These stories, your calls and much more on today’s Randi Rhodes Show!

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