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Monday August 21, 2006

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Week of August 21, 2006

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10:00Warrantless Surveillance Court Decision

Analysis of the federal court decision that the President acted unconstitutionally in authorizing surveillance without a warrant.

Guests

Lee Casey, lawyer in private practice and former staff director of the Federal Legal Counsel in the Justice Department during the Reagan and first Bush administrations

Morton Halperin, director of U.S. advocacy for the Open Society Institute; former official in the Clinton, Johnson, and Nixon administrations

11:00Lawrence Wright: "The Looming Tower" (Knopf)

A journalist shares his extensive research into the people, the ideas, and the events that came together in the planning and execution of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Guests

Lawrence Wright, staff writer for the New Yorker and fellow at the Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law.

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