November 25 - The Prosecutor Acting as Officer Wilson's Defense Lawyer; Was the Fix in from the Beginning in Prosecuting Officer Wilson?; Glenn Greenwald and James Risen Discuss Press Freedom and the National Security State

Full Program

Part 1

We begin with a legal analysis of the case put forth by the prosecutor who declined to indict Officer Wilson for killing the unarmed teenager Michael Brown. Gabriel Chin, a Professor of Law at the U.C. Davis School of Law joins us to discuss how the prosecutor appeared to be acting more as a defense attorney for Officer Wilson while putting Michael Brown on trial, along with the media, social media and witnesses whose testimony might have been inconsistent. We will examine the likelihood that Officer Wilson was enraged after his altercation with Michael Brown and in a blind fury, fired twelve shots at an unarmed teenager, six of which struck the victim in the front.

Part 2

Then we examine further the sham and charade that was presented by the prosecutor whose job was to indict but whose apparent aim was to exonerate. Vernellia Randall, Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Dayton, Ohio, and author of “Dying While Black”, joins us to discuss how much the fix was in from the beginning to make sure that Officer Wilson would not be held liable. We assess what the prosecutor meant when he implored society to make sure this never happened again when his findings claim that nothing happened, there was no case and that Officer Wilson did nothing wrong.

Part 3

Then finally we hear from two of the most prominent journalists engaged in challenging the national security state and the terrorist industrial complex that has burgeoned after 9/11 into a multi-billion dollar gravy train for government contractors feeding off the so-called war on terror. Glenn Greenwald, the first reporter along with the Ewen MacAskill from the UK Guardian, who was given access to the trove of information provided by the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, discusses press freedom with the reporter the Obama Administration is threatening to jail, New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter James Risen, the author of “Pay Any Price: Greed, Power and Endless War”. The full interview is available at The Intercept