Daily Show On Dan Rather’s Democratic Debate Free-For-All

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This is from the March 2, 2004 program.
This clip contains footage of the “Desperation Sunday” debate on CBS with Dan Rather between the remaining four Democratic Candidates (Kerry, Edwards, Kucinich, Sharpton). The debate took place Sunday, February 29, 2004.
Highlights include the NY Time’s Elizabeth Bumieller asking stupid questions like “Is God On America’s side?” and the candidates having to play a little game deciding if the the barriers being placed around and through the middle of Palestine are “walls or fences?”

Daily Show On Dan Rather’s Dem Debate (Small – 10 MB)

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Bill Moyers On How The FBI And Local Police Have Been Spying On Protesters

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This is from the March 5, 2004 program of Bill Moyers NOW.
Here’s the directory where movies of the show are located. I have it as a complete “all” file and in three parts (title “1of3” etc.).
There’s also a nice little history lesson which explains how, after J. Edgar Hoover infringed upon so many civil rights in the 50s and 60s, legislation was passed in the 70s (headed up by Walter Mondale) that restricted using undercover operations for the investigation of criminal activity.
Ashcroft re-wrote those rules after 911. It shows footage demonstrating that even Republicans like Representative James Sensenbrenner (Chair of the Judiciary Committee) say the new rules go too far in restricting our civil liberties.

Air Force One Phone Records Subpoenaed – White House Implicated Over CIA Agent Outing

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Air Force One Phone Records Subpoenaed
By Tom Brune for Newsday.

The federal grand jury probing the leak of a covert CIA officer’s identity has subpoenaed records of Air Force One telephone calls in the week before the officer’s name was published in a column in July, according to documents obtained by Newsday.
Also sought in the wide-ranging document requests contained in three grand jury subpoenas to the Executive Office of President George W. Bush are records created in July by the White House Iraq Group, a little-known internal task force established in August 2002 to create a strategy to publicize the threat posed by Saddam Hussein.
And the subpoenas asked for a transcript of a White House spokesman’s press briefing in Nigeria, a list of those attending a birthday reception for a former president, and, casting a much wider net than previously reported, records of White House contacts with more than two dozen journalists and news media outlets.
The three subpoenas were issued to the White House on Jan. 22, three weeks after Patrick Fitzgerald, the U.S. attorney in Chicago, was appointed special counsel in the probe and during the first wave of appearances by White House staffers before the grand jury.
The investigation seeks to determine if anyone violated federal law that prohibits officials with security clearances from intentionally or knowingly disclosing the identity of an undercover agent…
White House implicated
The subpoenas underscore indications that the initial stages of the investigation have focused largely on the White House staff members most involved in shaping the administration’s message on Iraq, and appear to be based in part on specific information already gathered by investigators, attorneys said Thursday.

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Bill Moyers On The Shrub Administration’s Unprecedented Veil Of Secrecy

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This is from the December 12, 2003 program of NOW With Bill Moyers.
Bill Moyers:

Everywhere you look today, or try to look, our right to know is under assault. In the name of fighting terrorists, the government is pulling a veil of secrecy around itself. Information that used to be readily accessible is now kept out of sight.
To cover this story, NOW is collaborating with U.S. News and World Report. Their five month investigation finds that, although the government regularly cites 911 as the basis for secrecy, the true reasons, in many cases, have nothing to do with the War On Terror.


INVESTIGATIVE REPORT: The untold story of the Bush administration’s penchant for secrecy
How the public’s business gets done out of the public eye
Here’s the t r u t h o u t archive of the complete U.S. News and World Report article: Keeping Secrets, written by Christopher H. Schmitt and Edward T. Pound.
This segment was produced by David Brancaccio and Peter Meryash.
Veil of Secrecy – Complete (Small – 40 MB)
Veil of Secrecy – Part 1 of 3 (Small – 11 MB)
Veil of Secrecy – Part 2 of 3 (Small – 16 MB)
Veil of Secrecy – Part 3 of 3 (Small – 13 MB)
Here’s some technical information about getting quicktime going to watch these movies.

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