Democracy Now! - Season 2011 Episode 97 : Tuesday, May 17, 2011 2026

2011/05/17 Headlines: NATO Bombs Key Gaddafi Targets in Tripoli; U.S. Joins Talks with Taliban amid Fresh Deaths of Civilians and U.S. Troops; NATO Helicopter Fires on Pakistani Army Post; New York Investigates Major Banks over Mortgage Security Operations; Audit: Five Largest Mortgage Firms Defrauded Taxpayers; Supreme Court Increases Police Power to Conduct Warrantless Searches; IMF Chief Held on Sex Crime Charges Denied Bail; Canada Wildfires Threaten Oil Pipeline Spill Cleanup; New Yorker Exposé Reveals Obama’s Expansive Attack on Whistleblowers; Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Bush-Era Extraordinary Rendition Case; Journalists Detained in Libya May Be Released; Iran Comments on Missing Al Jazeera Correspondent; Arkansas Man First to be Convicted under Hate Crime Act; Memorial Held for Civil Rights Attorney Leonard Weinglass