Slate: The Justice and Revenge Gabfest

Political Gabfest

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Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2011

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The death of Osama bin Laden, whether the photo of a dead bin Laden should be released to the public, and how his death affects the debate over torture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Slate Political Gab Fest is brought to you by Fresh Books, the easy online invoicing service that gets you paid quickly and makes you look professional.
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0:17.9	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for the 6th of May May Friday. I'm John Dickerson in Washington with David Plotz.
0:23.9	Emily Bazelon is in somewhere, but not with us.
0:28.1	Massachusetts.
0:28.9	She's in Massachusetts.
0:30.0	The big state. You've heard of it.
0:30.6	Right. She's been running around going from New York to Massachusetts to Connecticut on a tour of the founders and their favorite three states.
0:39.0	Today we're going to have an entire GabFest devoted to the killing of Osama bin Laden.
0:45.6	What happened?
0:46.6	Our reactions to it, what it means in terms of the debate, the ongoing debate about torture, and then the war in Afghanistan, which has an
0:55.6	important date this summer for a troop drawdown. So the first question to you, David, Sunday
1:00.5	night, where were you and what was your reaction when you heard this? I was in my living room.
1:05.2	I was watching TV. I don't remember what I was even watching. No, I saw someone, someone sent an
1:09.9	email to slate saying they're about to make some big announcement.
1:12.0	And so I turned on my TV.
1:12.9	It was extraordinary.
1:13.7	The White House Senate said basically, the president will talk at 1030.
1:16.5	We're not telling you at all what about.
1:18.2	It never happened.
1:19.8	Right.
1:19.9	There was this weird half an hour where everybody was like bouncing around.
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