Patt Morrison for Monday, October 10,2011

PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE

Monday, October 10, 2011

1-3 p.m.

 

CALL-IN @ 866-893-5722, 866-893-KPCC; OR JOIN THE CONVERSATION ONLINE ON THE PATT MORRISON BLOG AT KPCC-DOT-ORG

 

1:08:00 – 1:19:00: OPEN

 

[PITCH BREAK] 1:19:00 – 1:27:00

 

1:27:00 – 1:38:00: OPEN

 

[PITCH BREAK] 1:38:00 – 1:43:45

 

1:43:45 – 1:53:45

Pakistan to prosecute doctor who helped CIA track bin Laden, what can U.S. do?

The Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA track Osama bin Laden should be tried with high treason, according to an official Pakistani inquiry into bin Laden’s death. The CIA recruited Shakeel Afridi to run a sham Hepatitis B immunization campaign that sent health workers to bin Laden’s compound in hopes of taking DNA samples that would prove bin Laden was living there. The effort reportedly failed to gather any hard evidence, but Pakistan’s ISI spy agency arrested Afridi three weeks after bin Laden’s May 2^nd death. If convicted, he could face death, and word that he’ll be tried for treason is infuriating U.S. officials who consider him an international hero and want him released into U.S. custody. In the past, President Obama has insisted that Pakistan has been a strong counterterrorism partner to the United States. That was complicated by the revelation that bin Laden had been hiding in the country for years, but what does it say about the current state of relations between Washington and Islamabad if Pakistan prosecutes Afridi? Should the U.S. continue dealing with Pakistan? What’s the alternative? Should we cut funding? What influence does the U.S. have over the Pakistani military and government?

 

Guest:

NOT CONFIRMED:

Ambassador Wendy J. Chamberlin, president, Middle East Institute; former US Ambassador to Pakistan (2001-2002)

 

Seth Jones, senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation; former representative & advisor for the commander, U.S. Special Operations Command, to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations

 

 

Patt: We’re finished here, but the conversation continues on the Patt Morrison page at KPCC-dot-org and on our Facebook page. You’re listening to 89.3 KPCC – Southern California Public Radio. When we come back …

 

 

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2:08:00 – 2:19:00

 

Guests:

 

[PITCH BREAK] 2:19:00 – 2:27:00

 

2:27:00 – 2:38:00

Michael Lewis returns from financial-crisis tourism

Desperate for bailout money, the threat of collapse looms over the European economies, and financial journalist Michael Lewis has been tracking the storm, dissecting just how each country ended up where it is. He calls it financial-crisis tourism and he’s just returned from a long leg of it. He joins Patt in studio to put a personal face on the financial crisis, with tales of land-owning wealthy monks next to the Aegean Sea, cautious Scandinavians, and a theory about how Germans’ wealth of expressions involving excrement explains their nation’s attitude toward finances. He even has a thing or two to say about former Governor Schwarzenegger’s handling of California’s perpetual default, the sub-prime mortgage crisis, Ireland and Greece. Lewis reveals the inner-workings of a global meltdown, but can he provide an answer on how to get out?

 

Guest:

Michael Lewis, correspondent for Vanity Fair; he’s also the author of Moneyball, The Blind Side and most recently, Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World

IN STUDIO

 

[PITCH BREAK] 2:38:00 – 2:43:45

 

 

2:43:45 – 2:54:00
Michael Lewis returns from financial-crisis tourism (Con’t.)

 

 

Patt: We’re finished here, but the conversation continues on the Patt Morrison page at KPCC-dot-org and you can follow us on Twitter. You’re listening to 89.3 KPCC – Southern California Public Radio.

 

FROM THE MOHN BROADCAST CENTER, I’M PATT MORRISON

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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