May 23 – A Lawyer for 11 Guantanamo Prisoners on Obama’s Speech; Obama’s Call to End the “Perpetual” War on Terror; The Truth About the “Too Big to Jail” Bankers

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Part 1	We begin with two different impressions of President Obama’s speech today at the National Defense University where he called for an end to the endless war on terror. First Carlos Warner joins us. He is an attorney with the Federal Public Defender of the Northern District of Ohio who represents 11 Guantanamo prisoners. We discuss why the president has not closed Guantanamo which again Obama called for today.
Part 2	Then we speak with Peter Singer the Director of the Center for 21^st Century Security and Intelligence at the Brooking Institution who was coordinator of the Obama ’08 campaign defense policy task force. He has an article at the Los Angeles Times “Finally Obama Breaks his Silence on Drones” which we discuss along with the president’s call to end the “perpetual” war on terror which Obama called “self-defeating”.
Part 3	Then finally we look into the DOJ and Treasury documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by Bartlett Naylor, the financial policy advocate for Public Citizen who served as chief of investigations for the U.S. Senate Banking Committee. He joins us to discuss this new evidence that completely undercuts claims by the Department of Justice that they did not prosecute “too big to jail” bankers because of a fear that the whole financial system might unravel if some big Wall Street bankers went to jail.