Dick Cheney, the CIA and the 'Family Jewels'
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2007
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
The CIA has released "the Family Jewels," agents' reports on 25 years of illegal activities ending in 1974. How different is the CIA now, with Dick Cheney holding the intelligence portfolio for President Bush? Also, the President predicts success for a new immigration bill, and 22 months after Katrina, New Orleans finally has a recovery plan but there's no insurance.
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| 0:00.0 | From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point. |
| 0:07.7 | Dick Cheney, the CIA, and the family jewels. |
| 0:14.5 | Hello again, I'm Marvin Allene, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International. |
| 0:18.4 | A daily look at the issues, Americans care about most. |
| 0:21.1 | The CIA has released 700 pages of reports about 25 years of illegal activities during the 50s, 60s, and 70s, nicknamed the Family Jewels. |
| 0:30.3 | They tell of illegal wiretaps and domestic surveillance, assassination plots, and human experimentation. |
| 0:36.2 | CIA director, General Michael Hayden, calls them a glimpse of a very different time and a very different agency. |
| 0:41.3 | On To the Point, what are the differences and similarities between then and now with Dick Cheney, the president's go-to guy on intelligence? |
| 0:49.3 | On reporter's notebook later on, New Orleans' ninth recovery plan since Katrina. |
| 0:55.2 | First, here's the news. |
| 0:57.0 | Support for To the Point comes from subscribers of KCRW Santa Monica and from the Public Radio International Program Fund, |
| 1:04.5 | whose contributors include the Ford Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. McArthur Foundation. |
| 1:09.7 | Hello again, Mormon Alney. Back with To the Point. The CIA has released the Family Jew. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Hello again, Mormon. I'll only back with To the Point. |
| 1:11.7 | The CIA has released the Family Jewels, agents reports, on 25 years of illegal activities ending in 1974. |
| 1:19.3 | CIA director, General Michael Hayden, says it reveals a very different time and a very different agency. |
| 1:25.0 | On To the Point, how different is the CIA now, with Dick Cheney holding |
| 1:28.9 | the intelligence portfolio for President Bush? A reporter's notebook, 22 months since Katrina, |
| 1:34.2 | New Orleans, finally has a recovery plan which could free up federal money. First is news update. |
| 1:40.6 | The immigration bill has been revived in the Senate, and President Bush is predicting |
| 1:45.3 | passage, but it's not clear how long the controversial measure can survive. Kathy Kylie covers Congress |
| 1:51.6 | for USA Today. Kathy, good to have you with us. Hi, how are you? Good. It takes 60 votes to renew |
| 1:57.0 | debate. Two weeks ago, there were just 45. Today, there were 64. What happened in between? |
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