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An American eyewitness in Benghazi
Ethan Chorin was in Benghazi, Libya on the day that American Ambassador Christopher Stevens was killed.
In fact, he was due to meet with him the next day.
In the video above, Chorin breaks down American policy mistakes in Libya after the fall of Gadhafi.
New direction for traditional faith
Father Thomas Rosica speaks with CNN's Christiane Amanpour about the new directions Pope Francis is taking the Catholic Church.
Former Gitmo chief prosecutor to Obama: 'Man up'
By Mick Krever, CNN
Hearing Colonel Morris Davis speak, it’s easy to forget that he used to be the chief prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay.
“We used to be the land of the free and the home of the brave; we’ve been the constrained and the cowardly,” he told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday.
President Obama promised to close the Guantanamo detention facility when he took office in 2009; four years later, it’s still open.
A majority of the detainees, over 100, have been on hunger strike for more than three months to protest their detention; the military has resorted to force feeding them.
Eighty six of the detainees, Davis said, have never been charged with a crime. Many of those who were convicted of crimes were sent back to their home countries, and many are now free.
“It’s a bizarre, perverted system of justice,” he said, “where being convicted of a war crime is your ticket home, and if you’re never charged, much less convicted, you spend the rest of your life sitting at Guantanamo.”
A scant six years ago, as chief prosecutor at Guantanamo under President Bush, Colonel Davis sounded like a true believer.
For pope, 13th-century name with 21st-century domain
Pope Francis has a 13th-century name, but thanks to a Chicago man, he has a 21st-century domain.
Christiane Amanpour explains in the video above.
Fleeing Bahrain: A blogger's desperate escape
By Mick Krever, CNN
Thor Halvorssen started with an idea: “We need to get him out.”
The target: Bahraini activist Ali Abdulemam, who for years had been in and out of government detention for his reform-agitating website.
Halvorssen, founder of the Oslo Freedom Forum, realized that the only way to get Abdulemam out alive would be to smuggle him.
“It wasn’t so much as having one plan, as it was having a plan that would have many, many options built in,” Halvorssen told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Monday.
He and his team consulted a member of the Danish Special Forces, he said.
Their original plan bears a striking resemblance to the Oscar-lauded political thriller Argo: Send an entourage of celebrity entertainers to Bahrain, get Abdulemam into the mix, and sneak him out on a private jet.
Pakistan: Now comes the hard part
In a historic election – the country's first handover of power from one elected government to the next – Pakistanis have chosen to return Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to power.
In the video above, Christiane Amanpour speaks with Husain Haqqani, Pakistan’s former ambassador to the U.S., about what the election means and the challenges facing the new government.
Somalia's Mother Teresa - and Rambo
What do you get when you combine Mother Teresa and Rambo?
You get Dr. Hawa Abdi - at least according to a description from Glamour Magazine – who for thirty years has provided free health care to patients in her war-torn country of Somalia.
“They said that this big camp, this big hospital, to be run by a woman … it is impossible,” Abdi told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Thursday. “Necessity is the mother of invention.”
Abdi’s daughter, Deqo Mohamed, is herself a doctor and helps run the clinic with her mother.
“We don't understand the power we have,” Mohamed told Amanpour. “Women have more than we think. We don't give ourselves credit. We can be leaders, we can say no, we can lead the society and we can make the rules.”
Watch Amanpour’s full interview with Dr. Abdi and Dr. Mohamed in the video above.
CNN’s Juliet Fuisz produced this piece for television.
Women in the war room and board room
Baroness Mary Goudie is on a mission.
In 1971, she became the youngest woman in England elected to her local council in England. Now, a member of the British House of Lords, she is trying to better the world, by ensuring that more women are in the board room - and the war room.
“We would get a better society” if more women were employed around the world, Baroness Goudie told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Thursday.
Watch Baroness Goudie’s full conversation with Amanpour in the video above.
CNN’s Meredith Milstein produced this piece for television.
Meet the driver behind "Nuns on the Bus"
In his weekly address last week, Pope Francis put women front and center.
“The first witnesses of the resurrection are women,” he said. “This is beautiful and this is the mission of women, of mothers and women, to give witness to their children and grandchildren.”
The reference brought the praise of many, but only worry from traditionalists, who fear that the pontiff could take steps to ordain women.
For Sister Simone Campbell, who leads “Nuns on the Bus,” a Catholic campaign for social justice, the new pope is reason for cautious optimism.
“I must say that my hope has continued to be raised by all the experiences in this very short time,” he told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday. “But I also have to say that there's a part of me that's very nervous, waiting for the other shoe to drop, because I do worry about him and his capacity to make change to quickly, because there are those pressures that push against him.”
Watch Christiane Amanpour's full interview with Sister Simone Campbell in the video above.
CNN’s Juliet Fuisz produced this piece for television.
Facing jail for jokes: crackdown means ‘revolution's hopes destroyed’
By Mick Krever, CNN
For two veteran Egypt observers, it is abundantly clear that the government’s crackdown on satirist Bassem Youssef is coming directly from the top, President Mohamed Morsy.
“To say that Morsy is not behind the persecution and prosecution of Bassem Youssef is, I think, nuts,” Journalist Christopher Dickey, currently the Middle East editor for Newsweek Magazine, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.
Hossam Bahgat, founder of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, agreed, and said that the complaints themselves came from Morsy.
“The majority of complaints for insulting the president were formally filed by the office of the president,” he said.
Morsy’s office has claimed that the judiciary is completely independent.
The crackdown, Dickey and Bahgat said, is a disturbingly familiar sight.
“This is straight out of the Mubarak playbook,” Bahgat said. “That’s exactly what he used to do.”
“It really does look more like Mubarak all the time,” Dickey chimed in. “It’s really stunning.”
Youssef, who is known as the “Jon Stewart of Egypt,” was questioned by the public prosecutor for five hours on Sunday over complaints that he had insulted the president and Islam on his weekly show, El Bernameg (“The Program”).
The prosecutor claimed that he was simply doing his job, by investigating complaints levied by the public.
Youssef’s saga led to a diplomatic scandal of true twenty-first century proportions on Wednesday.
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