National Journal
GRITtv: The F Word: No Solutions at State of the Union
Obama will deliver his take on the State of the Union tonight and while Congress has bickered about bipartisan seating, it doesn't matter where anyone sits because the profiteers who define what’s possible in our politics have already barred any serious solution to what ails us. Distributed by Tubemogul.
"Democracy Now!": Thurs. Feb. 25 2010
- budget reconciliation
- Citizen Journalism
- constitutional law
- democracy now
- democracynow
- democrats
- FBI
- filibuster
- glenn greenwald
- laptop webcams
- National Journal
- national security strategy
- news
- Obama administration
- Pennsylvania school district
- public option
- Salon.com
- Shane Harris US government
- spying
- surveillance programs
- Surveillance State
- The Watchers
- US attorney
- US citizens
- Democracy Now
Glenn Greenwald, a constitutional law attorney and the political and legal blogger for Salon.com, says Democrats are disingenuously hiding behind the cover of the filibuster to justify their political inaction on the public option when they could approve it through budget reconciliation. The FBI and US attorney are investigating a Pennsylvania school district’s spying on young students through laptop webcams. For his new book, “The Watchers: The Rise of America’s Surveillance State”, National Journal correspondent Shane Harris spoke to the key architects of the US government’s surveillance programs over the past quarter century and tells the story of how spying on US citizens has become both easier and legal and is now the cornerstone of the Obama administration’s national security strategy. "Democracy Now!" is a daily independent newshour.
