Archive for the 'Constitution' Category

Glenn Greenwald

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Glenn Greenwald, legal affairs columnist and blogger for Salon.com and author of Great American Hypocrites, discusses the FBI and national media’s attempt to hijack the truth surrounding the anthrax case, their post-mortem conviction of Bruce Ivins, the left/right/libertarian realignment against the warfare/police state and Glenn’s interview with Mort Halperin about his flip-flop on the Constitution-shredding FISA amendments bill.

MP3 here. (19:54)

Glenn Greenwald was previously a constitutional law and civil rights litigator in New York. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling books How Would a Patriot Act? and A Tragic Legacy. His latest is Great American Hypocrites.

Doug Bandow

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Doug Bandow, author of Foreign Follies: America’s New Global Empire and regular columnist for Antiwar.com, discusses Congress’s abdication of its responsibility in declaring war to the president, the lawlessness of a wartime president, how the ignorant warmonger John McCain, missile “defense” on Russia’s border, the pending “Law of the Sea Treaty” and the War Party’s self-fulfilling attitude toward conflict with China.

MP3 here. (28:29)

Doug Bandow is the Robert A. Taft Fellow at the American Conservative Defense Alliance and author of Foreign Follies: America’s New Global Empire (Xulon Press). A former special assistant to President Ronald Reagan, he is a graduate of Stanford Law School.