We get comment from super lawyer Michael Ratner on strong statements by Gitmo's first commander about closing Guantanamo prison...Click here for free audiobook download and generate $15 for the PBC Podcast from Audible!
Ratner, President Emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights, comments on a blunt and persuasive op-ed by Maj. Gen Michael Lenhart USMC-ret., who opened the prison in Cuba in 2002
--AP defies White House, publishes story about FBI agent Levinson imprisoned in Iran after wayward CIA mission
--Kim Jong Un has his uncle executed as he consolidates power in North Korea
--UN reports that chemical weapons have been used at least 5 times in Syria in past year, including August 21
--Israel halts expulsion of Bedouins from Negev communities
--Obama's NSA panel floats part of its findings: keep spying on Americans while improving PR
--Senate study on rendition, detention and torture is still suppressed a year after completion
--Hillary Clinton kisses up to Wall Street bankers in speech that reportedly pays her $400,000
--Steve Horn reports that fracking kingpin Aubrey McClendon has lots of capital and new leases in Ohio's Utica shale
--Oklahoma City now has regular earth tremors from fracking, and last week a 4.5 magnitude quake caused visible damage
--Mexico's conservative president wants to break up Pemex and allow foreign oil companies to drill in Mexico
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