Headlines Justice Opens Full Investigation on CIA Leak U.S. Arrests Guantanamo Translator Bush Raises $5.3M in Record 12-Hour Period Arianna Huffington Drops Out Of Calif. Recall Race Israeli Cabinet OKs West Bank Wall Expansion Israel Detains Islamic Jihad Leader More Headlines…
Conflict of Interest? White House Rejects Call for Independent Counsel On CIA Leak Despite Longtime Rove-Ashcroft Ties President Bush’s closest aide Karl Rove was a consultant for John Ashcroft since 1985 in his gubernatorial and senatorial bids and pushed Bush to nominate Ashcroft as Attorney General. Rove has been accused of blowing the cover of a CIA operative to retaliate against her whistleblower husband. We speak to the author of Bush’s Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush President. [Includes transcript]
The War on the Bill of Rights and the Gathering Resistance: A Conversation with Nat Hentoff Democracy Now! speaks with prolific author, journalist, Village Voice columnist and longtime civil liberties commentator Nat Hentoff about the controversial USA Patriot Act.