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Guest host: Susan Page of USA Today
The nation's intelligence apparatus will be restructured under recently passed legislation, adding a national director of intelligence and a counterterrorism center, and changing the way the intelligence agencies work together. A panel explains the contents of the bill, what will change, and how Americans will be affected.
Dana Priest, intelligence correspondent for "The Washington Post" and author of "The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's Military"
Jamie Gorelick, attorney in private practice, 9/11 Commissioner, and a director of the 9/11 Public Discourse Project
David Rothkopf, visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and author of the upcoming book "Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power" (Public Affairs)
Laura Murphy, director of the ACLU Washington legislative office
Guest host: Susan Page of USA Today
Novelist and playwright P.G.Wodehouse created such hilarious characters as the unflappable butler Jeeves, who always kept his master Bertie Wooster in line. Wodehouse's biographer takes a look at the scope of a writer who often hid behind a stiff upper lip and lighthearted comedy.
Robert McCrum, literary editor of the "Observer" and author of six novels and two works of nonfiction, including "The Story of English" and "My Year Off."
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