- CIA Director George Tenet breaks his silence on the Iraq weapons intelligence failures with a heated defense of his agency – Tenet insists the CIA never told President Bush posed an imminent threat to the U.S. as the Administration claimed
- Another accusation against Halliburton – its under investigation for involvment in the payment of $180 million in bribes in Nigeria to win a natural gas project contract there – Vice President Cheney was head of the company at the time
- Lawyers for San Quentin death row inmate Kevin Cooper in a Federal Court in San Jose asking for a reprieve – in 5 days Cooper is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection, a method his lawyers contend is unconstitutionally cruel
- A rally on Wall Street in support of striking and locked-out Southern California grocery workers
- Port of Oakland maintenance, custodial, technical and administrative workers step up their pressure to win a new contract
- Neighborhood leaders in SF denounce Proposition J, the workforce housing measure on the March ballot