Democracy Now 5

Tabitha Arambula

March 13, 2014

 

"Giving Hypocrisy a Bad Name": NSA-Backing Senate Intel Chair Blasts CIA for Spying on Torture Probe (Wednesday March 12th)

 

The CIA had been secretly spying on the Senate Intelligence Committee. They would use computers and the CIA would spy on what they would see. The CIA was hacking into the computers. They were playing keep away. They would listen to personal phone calls. After 9-11 everything changed. The president said that regardless of the situation, they were going to get "justice". They got prisoners and tortured them. General Michael Hayden violated the rights by wiretapping. This was then called enhanced interrogation techniques for torture, although the information given is unreliable because the torture is harsh, they were forced to say what they wanted to hear. Since the CIA had computers and the senate would use them, the senate started seeing that some of the documents were disappearing. The CIA was holding onto a report that was done over a year ago, and the senate said it was theirs and that if they wanted to publish it they should.

 

New York City’s Charter School Showdown Reignites National Debate on Privatized Education Thursday March 13th

 

The Green Dot Public School is really a charter school. Charter schools affect public schools. Although Steve Barr says that it is a different way of teaching students, and it works. Charter schools are made for personal gains. The pay is unfair. The chancellor is getting paid less than others. Charter school leaders always give promises, but it always leads to problems. The public school system is not a simple problem to fix. Charter schools are a movement for Steve Barr. When you find a good school you want to replicate it but how? Parents are desperate to find good schools and they will. They may think that charter schools are the sure for cancer, and public schools are like the stepchild. Charters schools are able to choose the students that get in and kick off students that have disabilities, and test scores are low. They have the privileged kids with no problems and then they compare the schools. This hurts public schools even more.