February 6 – Are Bankers Too Big to Jail?; Did Khamenei Approve the Bulgarian Bombing?; Tunisia on the Secular/Religious Divide

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Part 1	We begin with the 610 million dollar fine (most of which will be paid to U.S. regulators and the Department of Justice) levied against the Royal Bank of Scotland for rigging the Libor rate. Bartlett Naylor, the former chief of investigations for the U.S. Senate Banking Committee joins us to discuss why the government is able to claw back money from banks for criminal behavior but at the same time no bankers go to jail.
Part 2	Then we look into U.S. and Israeli efforts to get the Europeans to designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organization following the Bulgarian inquiry that found Hezbollah guilty of a bus bombing that killed Israeli tourists. A former CIA officer who spent decades operating against Hezbollah, Robert Baer, joins us to discuss the role of Iran in these tit-for-tat assassinations and terrorist acts that are likely to escalate as Iran and Hezbollah face defeat in Syria.
Part 3	Then finally we speak with a State Department Middle East veteran who served in Tunisia to get an update on the killing of a secular leftist opposition leader whose assassination has led to the ruling Islamist government dissolving parliament and calling for speedy, new elections. Ambassador David Mack, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Middle East Affairs joins us to discuss the secular/religious divide erupting in Tunisia, Egypt and Israel.