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Senator Sam's Challenge to Presidential Power

Julian E. Zelizer and Bruce Schulman | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics

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Julian E. Zelizer and Bruce Schulman

We seem to be back to the summer of 1973, although in some respects Bush's extension of executive power has been much more dramatic than anything in that period.

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Executive Privilege: Let Congress's Contempt Suit Proceed

Emily Berman and Aziz Huq | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics

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Emily Berman and Aziz Huq

The executive is assigned the tools to respond to danger -- which also makes it the branch that poses the greatest risk to our own liberties and the branch in greatest need of oversight.

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James Rosen: Fox News Correspondent, Watergate Revisionist

New York Observer | Felix Gillette | Posted 05.01.2008 | Media

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"This is not your father's Watergate," said James Rosen. Mr. Rosen, an on-air D.C.-based correspondent for Fox News was speaking to NYTV on Monday af...

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Subsidizing Corporate Crime and Rewarding Constitutional Abuses

Shahid Buttar | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics

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Shahid Buttar

Controversial government programs are theoretically restrained by checks and balances, but neither Congress nor the courts have a way to check a secret program.

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The Leak: John McCain's Stopover In New Orleans

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 04.27.2008 | Home

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Karen Dalton-Beninato

The scandal this time is that there's no scandal. The leak John McCain should be addressing in New Orleans is the one at the 17th Street Canal Floodwall, the same one that was leaking before Katrina.

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Deep Throat and Me: Now It Can Be Told, and Not for the First Time Either

Nora Ephron | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics

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Nora Ephron

For many years, I have lived with the secret of Deep Throat's identity. It has been hell, and I have dealt with the situation by telling pretty much anyone who asked me, including total strangers, who Deep Throat was. Not for nothing is indiscretion my middle name.

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