Two "must hear" radio interviews from "Fresh Air" this week with Jack Goldsmith and Charlie Savage!

[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=14236608>

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. <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14236608>

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Goldsmith was on Bill M oyers' Journal last night. He tried not to step on too many toes but the

truth is the truth, no matter how thinly you try to slice it.

[Up2Late]

2. Thanks for the reads up on Bill Moyers Journal, I don't get it here until Sunday PM...

...when that actually do show it.

It looks like the video is already on-line, along with the Transcript, 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>

[Up2Late]

3. kick n/t

:kick:

[hootinholler]

4. Another kick, thanks for posting this. n/t