Diane’s farewell message
After 52 years at WAMU, Diane Rehm says goodbye.
Reactions to the news that Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab Zarqawi was killed by U.S air strike north of Baghdad, and
an update on the effort in the Senate to repeal estate taxes.
Guests
- Michael Vickers Director of strategic studies at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, and former CIA officer and Army Special Forces officer
- Robin Wright Journalist, author and foreign policy analyst at the United States Institute of Peace. Her most recent book is "Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East."
- Bruce Hoffman Director of the RAND Corporation's Washington, DC office. He holds the RAND Corporate Chair in Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency, and is author of "Inside Terrorism."
- Leonard Burman Senior fellow, Urban Institute and director of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center
- Chris Edwards Director, Tax Policy Studies, Cato Institute. He is the creator of the website 'down sizing the federal government.'
- Edmund Andrews Reporter, The New York Times
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