“BUSH’S LAW” BY ERIC LICHTBLAU

Eric Lichtblau recently published a non-fiction book titled “Bush’s Law.” If you remember, Lichtblau is the New York Times journalist who exposed the secret domestic surveillance program the bush administration executed in violation of U.S. constitutional laws. The book recounts Mr. Lichtblau’s relentlessness in exposing secret surveillance scandals and unlawful detentions orchestrated by the Bush administration since 9/11. He also denounces how the Bush administration targeted him and his colleagues who through their journalistic investigative work have uncovered blatant judicial wrong-doing by the administration. The retaliation ruthlessly ended the careers of some dissenters and Mr. Lichtblau himself saw his press pass canceled by the Justice Department’s director of public affairs when he reported on the F.B.I.’s interest in anti-war demonstrators. The book is an excellent example of journalists standing for their belief that the public’s right to know should be sacred and that government actions are not beyond the purview of the law.