2008.06.24 - PEGC Extra ========================= ADDINGTON TO TESTIFY THURSDAY House Judiciary Committee -- Thursday - June 26, 2008 - 10:00 AM Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties Hearing on: FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE TO GUANTANAMO BAY: ADMINISTRATION LAWYERS AND ADMINISTRATION INTERROGATION RULES http://judiciary.house.gov/schedule.aspx Harpers -- June 24, 2008 THE ADDINGTON-YOO HEARING, GAVEL-TO-GAVEL By Scott Horton http://harpers.org/archive/2008/06/hbc-90003148 On Thursday, June 26, the House Judiciary Committee will conduct hearings into the legal genesis of the Bush Administration's torture policies. Featured witnesses will be David Addington, chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, and University of California-Berkeley law professor John C. Yoo, who as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, was the principal draftsman of the torture memoranda. The Bay Area's KPFA (94.1 FM in Berkeley) and participating Pacifica Network stations will be carrying the hearing live, gavel-to-gavel, starting at 9:00 a.m. Eastern (6:00 a.m. Pacific) time. Pacifica's Larry Bensky and Harper's legal affairs contributor Scott Horton will be co-anchoring the broadcast, which can be monitored through a streaming webcast. KPFA Radio -- June 16, 2008 KPFA Radio Broadcasts Live from the House Judiciary Committee Hearing on Torture Broadcast Schedule: 6:00am PDT (9am EDT) - 11:00am PDT (2:00pm EDT) - ending time subject to change http://kpfa.org/press/2008-06-17-torture.php * * * PROJECT TO ENFORCE THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS (PEGC) http://www.pegc.us Charles B. Gittings Jr. Fort Bragg, California cbgittingsyahoo.com +1-707-964-2151