The Case of Raymond Davis and a Crisis Between Two Uneasy allies; Washington and Islamabad.
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2011
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The case of CIA spy Raymond Davis raises a host of issues, including: competition between US and Pakistani intelligence agencies; Congressional frustration with foreign aid; and Pakistan’s buildup of its nuclear arsenal.
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| 0:00.0 | From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point. |
| 0:07.8 | Pakistan, American spies and nuclear weapons. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello again, I'm Armin Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International. |
| 0:17.8 | The daily look at the issues Americans care about most. |
| 0:20.5 | Raymond Davis, |
| 0:21.1 | a CIA agent, sits in a Pakistani jail while the U.S. worries that even extraordinary security |
| 0:26.7 | might not keep him alive. The U.S. claims he killed two men in self-defense during an attempted |
| 0:32.4 | robbery. A Pakistani police report says one man was shot in the back. President Obama says Davis is entitled to diplomatic immunity, |
| 0:40.2 | but Pakistan's President Zadari is under public pressure to hang him for murder. |
| 0:44.5 | We'll look at a case that's revealed the extent of American spying |
| 0:47.6 | in an unstable nuclear power with increasingly tense relations with the United States. |
| 0:53.3 | On reporter's notebook later on, an update on Libya. |
| 0:56.3 | First here's the news. |
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| 1:06.6 | whose contributors include the Ford Foundation, |
| 1:09.0 | the John D. and Catherine T. McArthur Foundation, |
| 1:11.6 | and the Rockefeller Foundation and its campaign for American workers. More at rockfound.org. |
| 1:17.4 | Hello again, Warren Alney. Back with To the Point. The case of CIA spy Raymond Davis |
| 1:21.7 | raises a host of issues, including competition between U.S. and Pakistani intelligence agencies, |
| 1:27.2 | congressional frustration with foreign aid, |
| 1:29.5 | and Pakistan's build-up of its nuclear arsenal. We'll hear much more today. |
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