Now that the cold war is over? / Stansfield Turner, Bill Schaap, Michael Parenti, and Ernest Van Den Haag ; moderated by Phyllis Bennis and Samori Marksman.
Group discussion, with questions from the moderators, on the value and legality of the CIA. Supporters of the Agency are Admiral Stansfield Turner was Director of the CIA, 1977-1981 and Ernest Van Den Haag, member of the Heritage Foundation. Opponents of the Agency are Michael Parenti, a Political Scientist, and William Schaap, a journalist.
r.1. The National Security State / Samori Marksman (4:00) ; Introductions / Phyllis Bennis (4:30) ; The importance of the CIA for reliable intelligence / Stansfield Turner (18:30) ; Legalities of phone tapping / Bennis and Turner (2:30) ; The world-wide National Security State : a history of human rights violations / Michael Parenti (25:30) ; The role of the CIA in a New World Order / Turner and Parenti, questions by Bennis (5:00) -- r.2. The trouble with covert actions / William Schaap ; The need for the CIA following the collapse of the Soviet Union / Ernest Van Den Haag ; Interference with "Friendly Countries" / Turner, Parenti, Van Den Haag, and Schaap, question by Bennis (51 min.).
r.1. The National Security State / Samori Marksman (4:00) ; Introductions / Phyllis Bennis (4:30) ; The importance of the CIA for reliable intelligence / Stansfield Turner (18:30) ; Legalities of phone tapping / Bennis and Turner (2:30) ; The world-wide National Security State : a history of human rights violations / Michael Parenti (25:30) ; The role of the CIA in a New World Order / Turner and Parenti, questions by Bennis (5:00) -- r.2. The trouble with covert actions / William Schaap ; The need for the CIA following the collapse of the Soviet Union / Ernest Van Den Haag ; Interference with "Friendly Countries" / Turner, Parenti, Van Den Haag, and Schaap, question by Bennis (51 min.).