The President may very well choose a new justice from the lower courts. While that’s probably the right thing to do, I thought it would be interesting to look at some candidates who are almost definitely not on the President’s short list – but might make interesting nominees. [This was posted 2 hours before the President announced his nominee.]
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By David Gewirtz | May 26, 2009 | Perspectives
By David Gewirtz | May 11, 2009 | Perspectives
During the post-9/11 years of the Bush administration, whenever anyone in the media or the loyal opposition spoke out against the administration’s policies, that person was immediately accused of emboldening the enemy.
Yesterday’s article, AIG needs to be taught who’s boss resulted in a flurry of reader comments. One, by reader Val Beakley caught my eye.
By David Gewirtz | March 17, 2009 | Perspectives
It’s time for the White House to “man up” and put AIG out of our misery. Over the past six months, the U.S. government has given or loaned AIG more than $173 billion taxpayer dollars as compensation for an incredible inability to run a company properly.
Everywhere I go, everyone I talk to, almost universally, people are stressed out. Many of you are terrified you’re going to lose your jobs, many of you have lost some savings, a shocking number of Americans have lost their homes. The news is unfailingly bad and the outrages seem to keep piling up.
By David Gewirtz | February 11, 2009 | Perspectives
Why did we give them our hard-earned taxpayer money? Simple. They screwed up. They screwed up so royally that to let them fail might take the country down with them. Now, I’ve screwed up royally once or twice myself, but you don’t see the government rushing to hand me $60 billion.
By David Gewirtz | February 5, 2009 | Perspectives
Yesterday, Congress showed that it’s quite capable of having its cake and the glass half-empty, too. The mixed metaphor that is our United States House of Representatives approved the delay of the DTV transition to June, paving the way for President Obama to sign it into law. Sort of.
By David Gewirtz | January 29, 2009 | Perspectives
On rare occasions, the United States Congress does the right thing. This may be one of those occasions, but we’ll have to wait until next week to find out. On Monday, the Senate voted to delay the U.S. television conversion from analog to digital by four months, from a February 17th “doomsday” to a potentially less problematic June 12.
This important Open Letter makes the case that when Mr. Obama and his team enter the White House on January 20, they will be walking into an active crime scene – and they need to treat it as such.
The crime is an admitted violation of the Presidential Records Act and the Federal Records Act by the Bush administration. Gewirtz contends there is forensic evidence that needs to be gathered before it’s lost in the flurry of incoming activity.
This latest Special Report spotlights the increasingly apparent examples of massive negligence within the White House Office of the Chief Information Officer, this time resulting in evidence that the White House has irrevocably broken at least two key federal laws: the Presidential Records Act and the Federal Records Act.
The Special Report also explores how ranking members of the House Oversight Committee have virtually guaranteed that none of White House’s email problems will be resolved until the end of the next administration, four years after George W. Bush leaves office.
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DAVID GEWIRTZ is a CNN contributor and editor-in-chief of the ZATZ magazines. He is a recipient of the Sigma Xi Research Award in Engineering and was a candidate for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Letters. David serves as USSPI's executive director.
