SPB News for Monday

Al Qaeda talks without torture

New strategy treating terrorism as law enforce- ment issue yields results.

Secrets of CIA 'ghost flights' to be revealed --Guantánamo detainee's lawyers hail UK air firm's U-turn that allows rendition case to go to court Confidential documents showing the flight plans of a CIA "ghost plane" allegedly used to transfer a British resident to secret interrogation sites around the world are to be made public. The move comes after a Sussex-based company accused of involvement in extraordinary rendition dropped its opposition to a case against it being heard in court. Lawyers bringing the case against Jeppesen UK on behalf of the former Guantánamo Bay prisoner, Binyam Mohamed, claimed last night the climbdown had wide-ranging legal implications that could help expose which countries and governments knew the CIA was using their air bases to spirit terrorist suspects around the world.

The Complaint: Navy Commander v. Miami Herald Reporter --A copy of U.S. Navy Commander Jeffrey D. Gordon's sexual harassment complaint against Miami Herald reporter Carol Rosenberg obtained by FishbowlDC 'Her [the reporter's] behavior has often undermined good order [!] and discipline at Guantanamo, making it extremely difficult to carry out military commissions trips.'

Detroit schools "financial czar" orders teachers to reapply for their jobs By Walter Gilberti 2,600 Detroit Public School teachers, counselors and administrators from nearly 50 schools have been forced to reapply for their jobs at the schools where they teach. All of these supposedly "failed" schools are being "reconstituted" as mandated under the Bush administration’s 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). The punitive provisions of NCLB are being ruthlessly carried out by the Detroit Public Schools emergency financial manager, Robert Bobb, who enjoys the complete support of the Obama administration and its education secretary, Arne Duncan.

Last week's poll had asked:

Walter Cronkite, the most trusted man in broadcast journalist, passed away. Will there be another Walter Cronkite in journalism? JL readers answered no. This week's poll is now up.