Hello, welcome to another episode of Best of the Left Podcast.

Today we have clips from Bill Moyer's journal, The Young Turks, Keith Olderman, Randy Rhodes,

Sam Cedar, and The Daily Show with John Stewart.

On the phone, it's a pleasure to welcome to the program Glenn Greenwald.

He blogs at, I don't know if he still calls it on claim territory, but it's at salon.com

and he is the author of the bestselling book, How It A Patriot Act.

And in May, in 2006, his second book, A Tragic Legacy, was released, both fantastic and important reads.

Welcome to the program, Glenn.

Thanks for having me, Sam.

So, Glenn, there's a couple of stories I want to talk to you about.

The first being this Pfizer issue, and then maybe we can move on to the torture memos

as they have become to be known, or I guess the secret torture memos.

We already had our first round of torture memos.

Tell us, give me a sense of what the situation is with this John Conier's Restore Act.

Well, as of course you know, in August, the Democratic Congress passed a bill under pressure from the Bush administration

that massively expanded the president's power to use drop without warrants on the conversations of American citizens.

And when they did that, Nancy Pelosi and other congressional Democrats promised that they would enact legislation when they returned from their break to fix what it is that they did.

The bill that they passed in August has a six-month sunset provision.

So if nothing happens, if a new bill does not pass, it just elapses after six months and the old bill, the old Pfizer bill, reverts back.

And today the House Democrats introduced a bill that was actually right there.

Glenn, can I stop you right there?

Sure.

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