December 15 - Playing Politics with the Bill of Rights; The Militarization of Our Judiciary; What we Lost to Iran

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Part 1	We begin with two assessments of the dangers posed to our civil liberties by the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act the president threatened to veto but will now sign. First we speak with Scott Horton, who is a professor at Columbia Law School and a contributing editor at Harpers in legal affairs and national security. We try to understand why this law that the heads of our military and national security establishment did not want, that has the civil liberties community alarmed, was not vetoed by the president.
Part 2	Then joining us for a further discussion of this bill that goes much further in militarizing law enforcement than anything the Bush/Cheney Administration ever proposed, is Aziz Huq, a former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg who is now a professor of Law at the University of Chicago. We examine the objections that civil libertarians and our top military and national security officials have about the bill and how much the compromise language that was sufficient for the president to withdraw his veto, leaves open the possibility of a further erosion of the bill of rights and a future abuse of power.
Part 3	Then finally we look into what the U.S. Intelligence community lost in the capture of a top-secret state-of-the-art drone now in Iranian hands. One of the world’s leading experts on mercenaries, robotics and future warfare, Peter Singer, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Director of the 21^st Century Defense Initiative joins us. We discuss how much of a treasure trove the largely intact Sentinel drone will be for the Russians and Chinese and how it ended up on display by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps.
	MUSIC: Shabazz Palaces - Free Press and Curl; Arcade Fire - The Well and the Lighthouse; Fugazi - Provisional; Black Sabbath - Electric Funeral