Words Matter Library: Power Wars by Charlie Savage

DSR's Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

This week we put Power Wars, by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Washington correspondent for The New York Times, Charlie Savage into the Words Matter Audible Library. First published in 2015, Power Wars is an investigative history of national-security legal policymaking in the Obama administration. Charlie is also the author of Takeover, published in 2007, which chronicles the Bush-Cheney administration’s efforts to expand presidential power. Charlie has been covering post-9/11 issues — including national security, individual rights and the rule of law — since 2003, when he was a reporter for The Miami Herald. Later that year, he joined the Washington bureau of The Boston Globe; he moved to the Washington bureau of The New York Times in 2008. He has also co-taught a seminar on national security and the Constitution at Georgetown University. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/words-matter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Words Matter.
0:08.4	Welcome to the Words Matter Library.
0:11.2	I'm Katie Barlow.
0:13.5	Charlie Savage is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a Washington correspondent
0:18.0	for The New York Times.
0:19.8	Charlie covers national security issues for the Times and is the author of Power Wars,
0:24.8	the relentless rise of presidential power and secrecy.
0:28.3	Charlie Savage, welcome to Words Matter.
0:30.7	Thanks for having me.
0:32.0	I'm joined today by my co-host Adam Levine.
0:35.4	Great to be here, Katie.
0:36.5	Charlie, welcome to Words Matter.
0:37.9	Thank you.
0:38.8	Let's talk about your book, Power Wars, the relentless rise of presidential authority and secrecy.
0:44.4	The book was first published in 2015 and the subject has only become
0:49.6	more important since then and more relevant.
0:53.0	In some cases, more dangerous.
0:55.2	You've systematically revised and updated it to reflect subsequent events and revelations.
1:00.1	In the recent paperback edition, you set the following scene.
1:04.0	At noon on Friday, January 20, 2017,
1:08.0	As Barack Obama looked on in his final moment in power,
1:11.7	Donald Trump placed his hand upon a Bible and swore that he would,
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