This article details how the Democratic Congress, led by Pelosi and Reid, was complicit with the Bush Admnistration in 2008 in enhancing executive power and diminishing the authority of law and the Constitution by giving the phone companies immunity for illegally eavesdropping on people and by legalizing warrantless searches by the government, Oh yes, and they were complicit in the abandonment of Habeas Corpus - we have to rely on the slim reed of GOP appointed appeals court and supreme court justices to maintain this bedrock principle. Progressives: these Democratic representatives and senators who refused to fight the erosion of Constitutional authority are our purported allies over the next 4 years. With allies like these ...

Greenwald outlines the atrocious successful attacks upon the constitution and civil liberties enabled by an extremely compliant Democratic party lack of leadership, and Obama's supine reversal. He puts forward that the time has come to restore the constitution, if the democrats can find a spine.

This article challenges the assumption that Democrats are going to satisfy promises made during the previous election. It lays out the challenges for Democrats in a '09 Congress and administration. Succinctly, it brings the hopes of progressives back down to earth.

Glenn Greenwald is a leader in the effort to save the Republic from the subversion carried out by Dick Cheney and his gang, with help from the compliant stooge in the White House.

While the rest of the country was sleeping, Mr. Greenwald was doing his homework. An excellent retrospective of What Bush & co. did to violate the human rights of foreigners and American's in their own country. Unbelievable.

This is a quality journalism that reviews the past year of civil liberty abuses committed by the Bush administration and the failure of Congress to do anything about it.