Charlie Savage, In Pursuit of the Imperial President
From the NPR News Blog
In his daily riffs on the headlines, NPR news blogger Tom Regan often highlights Charlie Savage's reporting. Two examples:
Boston Globe reporter Charlie Savage won a 2007 Pulitzer Prize for a series detailing how often President Bush used "signing statements" — controversial assertions of a chief executive's right to bypass provisions of new laws.
Now Savage has written a book describing how the Bush-Cheney administration has expanded executive power. It's called Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy.
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