Firedoglake Announces CIA Leak Book by emptywheel *Marcy Wheeler*
Wed Sep 06, 2006 at 02:08:19 PM PDT
Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake announced today the first imprint from FDL Books, a comprehensive analysis of the CIA leak investigation by Marcy Wheeler (emptywheel). In order to launch FDL Books, Jane requests help from the blogosphere. Jane writes: "This is an important story both for the blogosphere and the country to get right, and we need your help to do that."
Working with Jennifer Nix, who did such a great job on Glenn Greenwald's "How Would a Patriot Act?" FDL Books expects to publish Wheeler's book in conjunction with the Libby trial in February 2007. As Jane writes, "If George Bush wants to pardon Scooter Libby, it is important that he know that there will be a price to be paid for doing so, and that price increases as the truth spreads."
The launch won't be easy and it won't be cheap. FDL Books needs our help. Please answer Jane's appeal at http://www.firedoglake.com/...
Kossack Exclusive from John Dean
Wed Jul 19, 2006 at 12:48:43 PM PDT
John Dean was particularly helpful to me as I worked to usher Glenn Greenwald's How Would a Patriot Act? into the world. I asked him for a blurb. To give one, he said, he would have to fact-check the entire book before lending his name. Ahh...integrity! Grateful for his time and the eventual blurb, I offered to read his new book, Conservatives Without Conscience[
http://www.amazon.com/...], and told him that, if I found it worthy, I'd want to help spread word about the book to the blogs.
I find it worthy--and then some. I'll be posting on FireDogLake a full review, but wanted Kossacks to have a first read of a short Q&A that Mr. Dean put together especially for DailyKos. I'll also pose some follow-up questions to Mr. Dean for a post here later this week, so if you've got a question, please send it on.
Call to Action: Send Glenn Greenwald's book to Congress
Wed Jun 14, 2006 at 10:08:39 AM PDT
I doubt many here have not at least heard of Glenn Greenwald's book,
How Would a Patriot Act. For those who haven't, kossak
Paul Rosenberg did a nice book report on it
here.
I just finished it, and found it to be reminiscent of the calls to principle that animated the founders of this nation in their calls for separation from the government of King George III.
It is not a book by a bomb-throwing liberal--It is written by an American concerned that this administration's claims of executive power violate the principles that every American, conservative or liberal, should share.
As such I feel it should be required reading for ALL of our elected officials.
Call Him "King George"
Sat Jun 03, 2006 at 03:40:32 PM PDT
I wrote this this morning and afternoon after finishing a two-hour bath and Glenn Greenwald's book,
How Would a Patriot Act? (If you are going to embark on a similar aquatic reading adventure, I suggest pre-applying towels around the base of the tub. Splashing
will occur.)
I think an effective way to portray to the public just how severely President Bush and his administration have violated our Constitution and the principles that make up its core--and define us all as Americans--is to label and define the position of the seat of the president in the context of how it came to be created in the first place, and how the powers of the seat are being abused today.
That is--how President George Bush is attempting to become, and to a degree already has become, "King George."
Greenwald's book is highly subversive
Wed May 24, 2006 at 08:09:32 AM PDT
Yes, my friends, the book
How Would a Patriot Act? is truly a chunk of troublemaking treeflesh, as it took me less than 12 hours to discover.
It all began when the mailman showed up on my doorstep at 11:30 yesterday morning. This is impressive in and of itself, because I live on a third floor walkup - usually, any packages that don't fit in the mailbox end up going back to the post office, and I get a card in my box. This didn't happen yesterday, a result no doubt of the anarchic impulses emanating from the box. It's a testimony to it's readability that I (a third shift guy) not only was awake to recieve it, but stayed up to tear through it in an hour and a half of frantic reading.
Then I took it to work.
Book Review/Essay: How Would A Patriot Act
Sat May 13, 2006 at 07:02:08 PM PDT
The NSA eavesdropping scandal, at its core, is not an eavesdropping scandal. It is a lawbreaking scandal, and it is unlike anything this country has confronted before.
--Glenn Greenwald, How Would A Patriot Act? Defending American Values From A President Run Amok
Cross-posted From My Left Wing
Monday is the publication date for How Would A Patriot Act? Defending American Values From A President Run Amok. I've written a review for Random Lengths News, due to run in our next issue. But here I offer something different, written with this particular audience in mind, an extended review, with lots of quotes to tantalize, and more opinions than I normally offer in a review. All you have to do is... JUMP!
