DN!: Exclusive: Eric Lichtblau on Bush's Law//Nir Rosen on a Broken Iraq Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 16:15:18 -0400 DEMOCRACY NOW! DAILY EMAIL DIGEST April 1, 2008 = = = = = = = = = TODAY'S DEMOCRACY NOW!: * "Iraq Has Really Become Somalia...A Collection of Different Militias" -- Back from Baghdad, Journalist Nir Rosen Paints a Picture of a Broken Iraq * Independent journalist Nir Rosen joins us in our firehouse studio soon after returning from three months in Iraq, his latest visit since moving to Baghdad to cover the US invasion in 2003. ³Itıs been propagated by the right and accepted by the left in the US that the surge, which is really an escalation of troops [Š] by 30,000 soldiers, somehow brought peace to Iraq,² Rosen says. ³This is just an absolute lie. Violence has subsided somewhat in Baghdad, thatıs true, but itıs not the result of the increase in American troops directly. Itıs the result of a few other factors.² Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/2008/4/1/iraq_has_become_somaliaa_collection * EXCLUSIVE...Bush's Law: Eric Lichtblau on Exposing the NSA's Warrantless Wiretapping Program and How the White House Pressured the New York Times to Kill the Story * In a national broadcast exclusive, we speak with New York Times reporter Eric Lichtblau about his new book, Bushıs Law: The Remaking of American Justice. Lichtblau won the Pulitzer Prize for exposing the Bush administrationıs warrantless wiretapping program in December 2005. He reveals the inside story of the New York Timesıs decision to delay publication of the story for more than a year after intense lobbying from the White House. 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