Charlie Savage on Executive Power Story aired: Thursday, September 13, 2007
Journalist Charlie Savage says since the 1970s Dick Cheney and a group of lawyers unknown to most Americans have reshaped U.S. law and government by a radical reading of the Constitution that claims the president has inherent and exclusive power to ignore the law.
Savage, a Boston Globe legal affairs correspondent, won a 2007 Pulitzer Prize for chronicling the expansion of presidential power in the Bush administration. He has now written a book called "Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy."
