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DemocracyNow! Monday, November 17, 2008  
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Naomi Klein on the Bailout Profiteers and the Multi-Trillion-Dollar Crime Scene. "The more details emerge, the clearer it becomesthat Washington's handling of the Wall Street bailout is not merelyincompetent. It is borderline criminal," says Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine.

Ex-CIA Officials Tied to Rendition Program and Faulty Iraq Intel Tapped to Head Obama's Intelligence Transition Team. JohnBrennan and Jami Miscik, both former intelligence officials underGeorge Tenet, are leading Barack Obama's review of intelligenceagencies and helping make recommendations to the new administration.Brennan has supported warrantless wiretapping and extraordinaryrendition, and Miscik was involved with the politicized intelligencealleging weapons of mass destruction in the lead-up to the war on Iraq.We speak with former CIA analyst Melvin Goodman and Michael Ratner ofthe Center for Constitutional Rights.

AsObama Vows to Close Guantanamo, His Advisers Are Reportedly Crafting aPlan to Create a New System of Preventive Detention and NationalSecurity Courts.During an interview on 60 Minuteslast night President-elect Barack Obama said he plans to close the USmilitary prison at Guantanamo Bay and rebuild the nation's moralstature. Last week, the Associated Press reported Obama advisers arecrafting a plan that would put some Guantanamo Bay prisoners in frontof a new court system designed to handle so-called "national security"cases.

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