Special thanks to all of the interviewees who are contributing their knowledge and perspectives to Seizing Power:

William Arkin
Investigative journalist, author of
American Coup: How a Terrified Government
is Destroying the Constitution.

Andrew Bacevich
Professor of International Studies at Boston
University, and U.S. Army Colonel [retired].

 

……Brian Becker
……National Coordinator for the ANSWER Coalition.

……

……Medea Benjamin
……Political Activist, co-founder of Code Pink and
……author of Drone Warfare: Killing By Remote Control.

 

……Phyllis Bennis
……Director of the New Internationalism Project at the
……Institute for Policy Studies.

 

.William Binney
.Whistleblower and former Senior Analyst at the
 National Security Agency.

 

.Thomas Blanton
.Director of the National Security Archive at
.George Washington University.

 

……Danielle Brian
……Executive Director at the Project on Government ……Oversight (POGO).
……

……Reed Brody
……Counsel and spokesperson for Human Rights Watch.

……

……George Christian
……Whistleblower, librarian, and National Security
……Letter recipient.
……

……Marjorie Cohn
……Professor of Law at Thomas Jefferson School
……of Law and former President of the National
……Lawyers Guild.

David Cole
Professor of Law at Georgetown University
Law Center.
……

……
Mark Danner
Staff writer for New Yorker, author, and journalism
professor at the University of California Berkeley
and Bard College.

……Davey D
……Hip-hop journalist, activist, and radio host.
……

 

……Morris Davis
……Professor at Howard University Law School, U.S.
……Air Force Colonel [retired], and former Chief
……Prosecutor for Guantanamo military commissions.

……Robert Dreyfuss
……Freelance investigative journalist for The Nation,
……Mother Jones and Rolling Stone.
……

……Daniel Ellsberg
……Whistleblower, former U.S. military analyst for the
……Rand Corporation. Released the Pentagon Papers,
……in 1971.…..

Omar Farah                                                                                     Staff Attorney for Guantanamo Global Justice Initiative at the Center for Constitutional Rights.

 

      Bruce Fein                                                                                             Constitutional Attorney and former
Associate 

Deputy Attorney General
under President Reagan.

.Benjamin Ferencz
.Former Chief Prosecutor of Nazi war crimes
.at the Nuremberg trials.
……

……Philip Giraldi
……Former counterterrorism specialist and military
……intelligence officer.
……

……Melvin Goodman
……Senior Fellow at the Center for International
……Policy and former CIA Analyst.

 

……Morton Halperin
……Senior Advisor at the Open Society Institute and
……former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
……under President Johnson.

……Chris Hedges
……Former war correspondent for the New York
……Times, author, and activist.

 

……Dahr Jamail
……Independent un-embedded journalist covering
……the Iraq War.
……

……Larry Johnson
……Former CIA Analyst and State Department
……counter-terrorism official.
……

……Mark Klein
……Whistleblower and former technician for AT&T.
……

 

……Charles Lewis
……Executive Editor at the Investigative Reporting
……Workshop and founder of the Center for Public
……Integrity.

……Tim Lynch
……Attorney and Director of the Project on Criminal
……Justice at the CATO Institute.

 

……
  Maria LaHood
..Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for
..Constitutional Rights.
……

  Kate Martin
..Director for the Center for National Security
..Studies.

 

……
   Ray McGovern
…Activist, journalist, and former CIA analyst in
…charge of Presidential daily briefings.

 

……Nicholas Merrill
……Whistleblower, Executive Director of The Calyx
……Institute, and National Security Letter recipient.

 

……Robert Parry
……Author, investigative journalist for Consortium
……News, and former reporter for Associated Press
……and Newsweek.

……
  Michael Ratner
…Attorney for Julian Assange and Wikileaks,
…activist, and former President of the Center for …Constitutional Rights.

……Mark Rumold
……Staff Attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
……

 

……Hina Shamsi
……Director of the ACLU’s National Security Project.
……

..Tim Shorrock
..Investigative Journalist and author of Spies
..for Hire: The Secret World of Outsourced
..Intelligence.…

……Debra Sweet
……Anti-war activist and Director of World Can’t Wait.
……

 

……Russell Tice
……Former intelligence analyst for the Defense
……Intelligence Agency and the National Security
……Agency.

……Mara Verheyden-Hilliard
……Executive Director of The Partnership for Civil
……Justice Fund.
……

……Vincent Warren
……Executive Director of the Center for
……Constitutional Rights.
……

……Kirk Wiebe
……Whistleblower and former Senior Analyst at
……the National Security Agency.

 

……Ann Wright
……Activist, former State Department diplomat,
……U.S.Army Colonel [retired].