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10:00Rights and Responsibilities of the Press in Wartime

President Bush said a New York Times article about a secret government program to monitor international banking transactions did the country "great harm." The New York Times stands by its decision to run the story. Diane and her guests talk about how the media chooses what to publish in a time of war.

Guests

Jonathan Turley, professor of public interest law at George Washington University Law School

Lee Casey, lawyer in private practice and former staff director of the Federal Legal Counsel in the Justice Department during the Reagan and first Bush administrations

Bill Keller, executive editor of the New York Times

11:00Kenneth Briggs: "Double Crossed" (Doubleday)

In the past forty years, two-thirds of Roman Catholic nuns in America have left their calling. A journalist and religious historian describes why he thinks they were betrayed by their own church.

Guests

Kenneth Briggs, former religion editor at the "New York Times" and author of "Holy Siege."

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