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We begin with the Secretary of Defense’s announcement that the Pentagon is revamping its spy operations to focus on new threats in the Asia/Pacific region such as China. A retired CIA Operations Officer who received the agency’s “Medal of Merit", Gene Coyle joins us to discuss the turf wars between the Pentagon and the CIA, now led by a former General.
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Then on Armenian Genocide Commemoration Day we will examine the almost unreported diplomatic history of the Turkey/Armenia Protocols with a former State Department Advisor involved in the effort to end the denial and division between the two countries. David Phillips, the Director of the Program on Peace-Building and Rights at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights joins us. |
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| Then finally we speak with Scott Horton, a professor at Columbia Law School and a contributing editor at Harpers in Legal Affairs and National Security. We will examine the Obama Administration’s efforts in the new area of human protection with its Atrocity Prevention Board designed to prevent genocides that have previously gone on unabated while the great powers wrung their hands on the sidelines. |
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| MUSIC: The Beatles - Come Together; Major Lazer (Ft. Amber Coffman) - Get Free; Bob Dylan - Chimes of Freedom |
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