MONITOR up at 6 CST: Nat'l Lawyers Guild President MARJORIE COHN on our Cowboy Republic

[Pokey Anderson]

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February 17, 2008

Today's Guest:
-- National Lawyers Guild President MARJORIE COHN
on our Cowboy Republic


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<> 6:00 pm CDT -- National Lawyers Guild President MARJORIE COHN on our Cowboy Republic



Law professor MARJORIE COHN is a frequent legal analyst on The Monitor. She and Monitor co-host Mark Bebawi will discuss her book, "Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law."

Last week Marjorie and Mark discussed using intelligence gained through torture; the recent CIA admission it used waterboarding on three prisoners; the investigation of the destruction of several hundred hours of videotapes depicting interrogations; and the stop-go-stop congressional debate on retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies, for cooperating with the federal government in surveillance on citizens.

Professor Cohn is the President of the National Lawyers Guild, and is a professor of law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, where she teaches criminal law and procedure, evidence, and international human rights law.

She lectures throughout the world on international human rights and US foreign policy. Professor Cohn has written columns for the Los Angeles Daily Journal and the San Francisco Daily Journal, is a news consultant for CBS News, and a legal analyst for Court TV. She has provided legal and political commentary on BBC, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, NPR, Truthout, and Pacifica Radio.

She is co-author of the book "Cameras in the Courtroom: Television and the Pursuit of Justice." She was a legal observer in Iran on behalf of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, and she has participated in delegations to Cuba, China and Yugoslavia. She has lived in Mexico and is fluent in Spanish.

WEBSITE:
http://marjoriecohn.com



"Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law"

The six ways:
--illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq;
--the policy of torture;
--war crimes;
--Guantanamo’s kangaroo courts;
--unconstitutional laws; and
--the unlawful surveillance of American citizens.


<> 6:30 pm CDT - Headlines

In order to have Marjorie with us for an extended conversation, we have moved HEADLINES to the second part of the hour, just for this week.



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