Must hear interview with Jack Goldsmith Re: his new book "The Terror Presidency"

[Up2Late]

Jack Goldsmith on 'The Terror Presidency'

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Fresh Air from WHYY, September 7, 2007 · As head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, Jack Goldsmith led the team of lawyers that advises the presidency on the limits of executive power. During his tenure, he battled the Bush White House on the now-infamous "torture memos," as well as on issues of surveillance and the detention and trial of suspected terrorists. Goldsmith resigned his post after nine months.

He's speaking publicly for the first time about why he resigned in a new memoir, The Terror Presidency — which also recounts what he witnessed in Attorney General John Ashcroft's hospital room, when Alberto Gonzales and Andrew Card, the White House chief of staff, demanded that an ailing Ashcroft approve a secret program that was about to expire. Goldsmith was among those who objected to the program. <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14236608>

And if you have another 1/2 hour to devote to another great interview, check out this one from Wednesday with Boston Globe reporter Charlie Savage, he's the got a new book too, also about the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, where Jack Goldsmith worked for nine mouths before he quit: <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14181701>

Charlie Savage, In Pursuit of the Imperial President

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Fresh Air from WHYY, September 5, 2007 · Boston Globe reporter Charlie Savage won a 2007 Pulitzer Prize for a series detailing how often President Bush used "signing statements" — controversial assertions of a chief executive's right to bypass provisions of new laws.

Now Savage has written a book describing how the Bush-Cheney administration has expanded executive power. It's called Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy.

[seemslikeadream]

1. This is an amazing interview I posted it in GD

:hi:



I like your avatar

[Up2Late]

2. Do you have a link to your post?

I'll give it a little kick.:evilgrin:

[Up2Late]

3. kick n/t

:kick:

[seemslikeadream]

4. here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1739350&mesg_id=1761644

he's now cpan now

[Up2Late]

5. Kick if you still love Amreica...

...(I'm joking), but please listen and kick if you like it.:kick:

[Octafish]

6. Terror Preznit

Thank you for the heads-up on two very important articles, Up2Late!



Gee. No one with any integrity likes the guy. Jesselyn Radack, f'r instance:

http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/interviews/054

[Up2Late]

7. Just trying to do my part, thanks. Looks like he was on Bill Moyers Journal last night too...

...as pointed out by another DU Member at my new GD post, and it looks like the video is on-line already (though I haven't tested the link yet). Here are the links:

<http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/archives/index.html>

<http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/09072007/profile3.html>

<http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/09072007/transcript2.html>

<http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1763455&mesg_id=1763455>

[nealmhughes]

8. He was on C-SPAN this morning.

To be honest, he was not very forthcoming as he was advertised to be. . . a great deal of the time he kept saying "I don't have expertise in that area" or else "I can't discuss the particulars of the techniques. . ." I was very disappointed except for him showing how lawyers used to justify everything! Why bother in a dictatorship?

[Up2Late]

9. I missed the C-SPAN interview, so I have nothing to compare it to, but you should listen to this...

...one too, maybe, since the C-SPAN interview was after a bunch of other interviews, he's been getting angry phone calls from Bush Cabal and has toned down or is becoming more careful as to what he is saying.

I may try to track down the C-SPAN interview, but you would be in a better position to compare the two interviews right now.