Arianna Huffington has been taking questions at firedoglake today and I was just catching up with some of the discussion. Glenn Greenwald was also there and answered a question:
Arianna and Glenn,
Are you planning to come to Netroots Nation this summer? Do you think that these kinds of events will help build us up or are we wasting our time and money doing them?
Glenn's Reply over the hump...
Glenn:
I went to Yearly Kos the last few years - and I know Arianna went last year - but I’m not going to Netroots Nation this year. I was supposed to be on what I thought was the best panel yet that I’ve been on anywhere - it was one to discuss Bush lawbreaking and what should be done about it in the next administration.
The panel was going to have John Dean, Daniel Ellsburg and Elizabeth Holtzman — 3 of the most significant figures of the Watergate era. Ellsburg in particular is one of the greatest American political heroes of the last three decades, in my view. It was to be moderated by Majorie Cohn, who wrote a great book detailing Bush crimes.
But the Conference rejected the panel. I really don’t understand why. That would be a panel I’d travel to hear — let alone one that I would think Netroots Nation would want to have. Since the reason I was going was to participate on that panel, now I’m not.
But I better not say any more or else Jane will yell at me for being off-topic.
So my question is, why was this panel rejected?
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