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January 29, 2006: The Monitor

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<> 6:20 pm CST -- JAMES BAMFORD, expert on the NSA



We'll talk with James Bamford, one of the preeminent experts on the secretive National Security Agency. The NSA, though it has a budget larger than the CIA, has stayed mostly under the radar. Until now -- the NSA has been dragged into the spotlight with the current furor over the Bush administration's admission that it has been spying on American citizens, though Congress specifically did not authorize that in its FISA legislation which has been in effect for over thirty years.

Jim wrote the first book ever about the NSA, published in 1982: The Puzzle Palace: A Report on NSA, America's Most Secret Agency. It became an immediate bestseller, and is now considered a classic. Bamford has taught, and he spent nearly a decade as the Washington Investigative Producer for ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings where he won a number of journalism awards for his coverage national security issues. His second book on the NSA was Body of Secrets : Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency.

BOOKS by Bamford:
The Puzzle Palace: Inside America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization
Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency
A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, & the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies


<> ~ 6:40 pm CST -- BOB FERTIK - an update on the push to filibuster Alito

http://www.democrats.com/image/view/3490

Bob Fertik is a life-long progressive and Democratic Party activist, as well as a blogger, journalist, author, systems analyst, candidate, political consultant, and entrepreneur. Bob's website, Democrats.com (no official relation to the Democratic Party), has been one of the best, most up-to-date for current information on the effort to filibuster Alito. We'll find out from him how the blogosphere has provided the leadership.

Bob is the president of Democrats.com and co-founder of AfterDowningStreet.org. He is the co-founder of the Pro-choice Resource Center, Eleanor's List, Political Woman Newsletter, Women Leaders Online, and the Women's Voting Guide. He serves on the board of the Westchester Coalition for Legal Abortion. He graduated from Yale College with a B.A. in Economics in 1979, and lives in New York City.

WEBSITES:
Democrats.com http://www.democrats.com .. LATEST ON ALITO EFFORTS
After Downing Street http://www.AfterDowningStreet.org


ARTICLES re ALITO:

ALITO: WHAT'S AT STAKE, Compiled by Pokey Anderson
January 22, 2006, Bradblog.com, http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002314.htm

Senators in Need of a Spine
NEW YORK TIMES
Editorial
January 26, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/26/opinion/26thur1.html?_r=1&oref=login

Why the Senate should not confirm Alito;
Supreme Court doesn't need a justice who has no interest in restraining `presidential powers'
by Geoffrey R. Stone
January 24, 2006
Chicago Tribune
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0601240222jan24,1,7806633.story?coll=chi-opinionfront-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true

Judge Alito's Radical Views
NEW YORK TIMES
Editorial
January 23, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/23/opinion/23mon1.html


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January 22
-- DAVID SWANSON, co-founder of After Downing Street
-- ROBERT PARRY of Consortium News.com, re Alito filibuster

January 15
-- MARJORIE COHN of the National Lawyers Guild and ELLIE SMEAL, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, on the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court

January 8
-- RAY McGOVERN , former 27-year NSA veteran and a founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.
-- BILL GOODMAN, legal director of the Center for Constititional Rights
THEY DISCUSSED NSA SPYING ON US CITIZENS and the BUSH SECRET SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM THAT WENT OUTSIDE THE LAW.

January 1
-- MARK CRISPIN MILLER re how we got elections we can't trust
-- DAVE BERMAN re grass roots activism to get elections we trust

December 25 (previous segments, rebroadcast)
-- JULES ARCHER archival interviews, re the attempted coup against FDR in 1934
-- DAVID RAY GRIFFIN re questions about September 11

December 18
-- Former Diplomat ANN WRIGHT re peace efforts
-- MARC ROTENBERG on privacy and government surveillance

December 11
-- SAMIR KHADER re Al Jazeera
-- BRAD FRIEDMAN re election transparency fights around the country

December 4
-- LOU DUBOSE on Abramoff scandal
-- KRISTINA BORJESSON re media, especially relating to ramping up the Iraq War

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