Impeachment? Filibuster? Monitor radio coming up

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Then, David Swanson of AfterDowningStreet re impeachment, NSA spying

Then, Robert Parry of ConsortiumNews.org re Alito Filibuster?

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David Swanson - first guest, co-founder of After Downing Street. Re impeachment, International Commission of Inquiry, Conyers hearing on NSA spying on Friday.

WEBSITES:
After Downing Street http://www.AfterDowningStreet.org
Censure Bush http://www.censurebush.org
The International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration http://www.bushcommission.org




Robert Parry, second guest, re Alito filibuster?

Robert Parry is a 27-year veteran of Washington journalism. He broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for the Associated Press and Newsweek. His newest book is Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq.

He founded the Consortium News website in 1995 because, as he writes, "I was distressed by the silliness and downright creepiness that had pervaded American journalism by the mid-1990s."

WEBSITE:
Consortium News http://www.consortiumnews.com

ARTICLE:
--"Alito Filibuster: It Only Takes One," by Robert Parry
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/012106.html

This article starts out:

With the fate of the U.S. Constitution in the balance, it’s hard to believe there’s no senator prepared to filibuster Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, whose theories on the “unitary executive” could spell the end of the American democratic Republic. ...

Alito’s theory of the “unitary executive ” holds that Bush can cite his “plenary” - or unlimited - powers as Commander in Chief to ignore laws he doesn’t like, spy on citizens without warrants, imprison citizens without charges, authorize torture, order assassinations, and invade other countries at his own discretion.

“Can it be true that any President really has such powers under our Constitution?” asked former Vice President Al Gore ...