DN!: Outsourcing Intelligence//A Peace Bridge Between Brooklyn & Baghdad Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:39:05 -0400 DEMOCRACY NOW! DAILY EMAIL DIGEST July 26, 2007 = = = = = = = = = LOOKING FOR APPLE MAC MINI DONATIONS Visit http://www.democracynow.org/macbookpro.shtml for a list of specific models. Thanks in advance for your support! = = = = = = = = = * DN! is hiring * Full-Time Broadcast Engineer http://www.democracynow.org/jobs.shtml = = = = = = = = = TODAY'S DEMOCRACY NOW!: * Outsourcing Intelligence: Author R.J. Hillhouse on How Key National Security Projects Are Contracted to Private Firms * Author R.J. Hillhouse caused a stir in Washington last month when she revealed more than 50 percent of the National Clandestine Service has been outsourced to private firms. Now Hillhouse has exposed private companies are heavily involved in the nation's most important and most sensitive national security document ­ the President's Daily Brief. And there appears to be few safeguards from preventing corporations from inserting items favorable to itself or its clients into the President's Daily Brief in order to influence the country's national security agenda. Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/26/1410253 * Berkeley Professor Among Wounded in Attack on Independent Newspaper in Niger Delta * Insecurity continues to escalate in the oil-rich Niger Delta. On Wednesday morning unidentified gunmen stormed the office of an independent weekly newspaper, the National Point. The paper is published by activist journalists and had recently reported on the alleged links between local politicians and criminal gangs. University of California - Berkeley professor Michael Watts was among the wounded. We go to Nigeria to speak with award-winning Nigerian journalist Ibiba Donpedro, who witnessed the attack. Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/26/1411200 * Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Could Face Perjury Probe Over Sworn Testimony on Domestic Spying * Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is facing a possible perjury investigation over his sworn testimony on the Bush administration¹s domestic spy program. Gonzales faces scrutiny over his insistence that a March 2004 meeting with Congressional leaders was not called to address the warrantless spying. Gonzales was questioned during a testy Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday on misconduct at the Department of Justice. Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/26/1411207 * U.S., Iraqi School Teacher Create Peace Bridge for Students from Brooklyn to Baghdad * Three years ago Brooklyn school teacher Bruce Wallace created a project to teach students about the people on the ³other side² of the Iraqi war and to create a peace bridge between the two sides. For years Wallace and Iraqi Romance literature teacher Nesreen, as well as their students, corresponded by email. The Americans and Iraqis exchanged emails about their lives, war and growing up in Brooklyn and Baghdad. Bruce Wallace and Nesreen join us in our firehouse studio. Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/26/1411219 * Headlines for July 26, 2007 * - Gonzales Faces Possible Perjury Probe - House Panel OKs Contempt Citations for Bush Aides - 50 Killed in Iraq Soccer Celebration - House Approves Ban on Permament U.S. Bases in Iraq - Probe: Bechtel Fails on Majority of Iraq Projects - Taliban Kidnappers Kill South Korean Hostage - First U.S. Class Graduates Cuban Medical School - 2 Members of Agent Orange Victim Delegation Die Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/26/1410245 = = = = = = = = = Democracy Now!'s daily news summaries are now available in Spanish: Read Thursday, July 26, 2007: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/26/190206 To subscribe to these "Titulares de Hoy" by email, send a blank message to: boletin-sub@list.democracynow.org = = = = = = = = = COMING UP ON DEMOCRACY NOW! Friday, July 27, 2007: * Should the Democrats push to impeach President Bush? 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