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Updates:
- Graham Amendment and the McCain Amendment
- Intelligent Design Debate
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CFC – Combined Federal Campaign –
Small victory announcement – Government Asking Charities to Check Donors With Terrorist List Without Consent.
Guest – Chicago Attorney Gary A. Isaac -Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw
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Orleans Parish Prison Update – In legal papers filed late last week by the American Civil Liberties Union, 45 men and women formerly detained at Orleans Parish Prison recount disturbing details of being abandoned without food or water and abused by guards after Hurricane Katrina struck.
The ACLU said that the scores of testimonials it has obtained from prisoners contradict public statements made by Sheriff Marlin N. Gusman that the prisoners had food and water and that the evacuation went as planned.
Guest – Eric Balaban – staff counsel representing all prisoners in the Orleans Parrish prison in a longstanding class action lawsuit.
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Dr Rafil Dhafir Selectively Prosecuted Because of His Muslim Faith and Arab Descent
Guest – Barrie Gewanter – Executive director of the Central New York Chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union.
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