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Tagged: 2004

June 14, 2004

Download MP3 Headlines Cheney Involved in Halliburton Contract Pentagon officials admit that Vice President Dick Cheney’s office and political operatives in the Bush White House played a significant role in granting the no-bid Iraq...

June 11, 2004

Download MP3 Headlines U.S. soldiers were authorized to use attack dogs to intimidate Iraqis prisoners. Karen Mitchell has more from the D.C. coop. The voter advocacy group is taking legal action against the state...

June 10, 2004

Download MP3 Headlines Today a jury in Idaho returned a “not-guilty” verdict in favor of the University of Idaho student accused of terrorism. Leigh Robartes has more. Today the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics...

June 09, 2004

Download MP3 White House Judicial Nominee Oversaw DOJ Memo on Torture (4:20) The Wall St. Journal reported on Monday that the Pentagon’s top civilian lawyer, William Haynes, is the person in charge of a...

June 08, 2004

Download MP3 Headlines British Officer Misleads Gov. on Iraqi Deaths A British military officer admitted he inadvertently misled Parliament about the numbers of civilian deaths in Iraq that involved British soldiers.  Armed forces minister Adam...

June 07, 2004

Download MP3 Headlines Pentagon Says Torture Legitimate Pentagon officials argued that torture is a legitimate form of interrogation, under presidential orders, in a document reported by the Wall Street Journal today. Selina Musuta reports...

June 04, 2004

Download MP3 Headlines Pope John Paul the Second reminded President Bush today of the Vatican’s opposition to the Iraqi occupation and said the world has been troubled by recent QUOTE “deplorable events,” an reference...

June 03, 2004

Download MP3 Headlines President Bush admitted he has interviewed a personal lawyer to represent him in the investigation trying to find the person in his administration who leaked the name of a CIA agent....

June 02, 2004

Download MP3 Headlines Today the New York Civil Liberties Union is taking the New York Police Department to court over what the NYCLU calls heavy-handed practices at the anti-war rally in February of 2003....

June 01, 2004

Download MP3 Headlines Today a federal judge agreed with Planned Parenthood and ruled that a ban on a certain type of abortion is unconstitutional. The federal government argued in court that the procedure they...