63. Michael Parenti, Dirty Truths (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1996), 201, 206: “In the years before the fatal crash there had been assassination attempts against Walter and Victor [Reuther]. (Victor believes the attempt against him was intended as a message to Walter.) In each of these instances, state and federal law-enforcement agencies showed themselves at best lackadaisical in their investigative efforts, suggesting the possibility of official collusion or at least tolerance for the criminal deeds. . . . Third, like the suspicious near-crash that occurred the previous year, the fatal crash also involved a faulty altimeter in a small plane. It is a remarkable coincidence that Reuther would have been in two planes with the exact same malfunctioning in that brief time frame. . . . In a follow-up interview with us, Victor further noted: ‘Animosity from government had been present for some time [before the fatal crash]. It was not only Walter’s stand on Vietnam and Cambodia that angered Nixon, but also I had exposed some CIA elements inside labor, and this was also associated with Walter. . . . There is a fine line between the mob and the CIA. There is a lot of crossover. Throughout the entire history of labor relations there is a sordid history of industry in league with Hoover and the mafia. . . . You need to check into right-wing corporate groups and their links to the national security system.’ Checking into such things is no easy task. The FBI still refuses to turn over nearly 200 pages of documents regarding Reuther’s death, including the copious correspondence between field offices and Hoover. And many of the released documents—some of them forty years old—are totally inked out. It is hard to fathom what national security concern is involved or why the FBI and CIA still keep so many secrets about Walter Reuther’s life and death.”
64. See discussion in Jack N. Rakove, “Taking the Prerogative Out of the Presidency: An Originalist Perspective,” Presidential Studies Quarterly 37, no. 1 (March 1, 2007): 85–100; Frederick A. O. Schwarz Jr. and Aziz Z. Huq, Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror (New York: Rodale, 2007), 153–58.
65. Interview with David Frost, aired May 11, 1977, in Schwarz and Huq, Unchecked and Unbalanced, 159; Robert D. Sloane, “The Scope of Executive Power in the Twenty-First Century: An Introduction,” Boston University Law Review 88 (2000): 341,
http://www.bu.edu/law/central/jd/organizations/journals/bulr/documents/SLOANE
.pdf, 346.
66. Jack Goldsmith, The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment inside the Bush Administration (New York: Norton, 2007), 82.
67. Goldsmith, The Terror Presidency, 183.
68. Minority Report, Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran-Contra Affair, 100th Congress, 1st sess., House Report No. 100-433, Senate Report No. 100-216, 465.
69. Schwarz and Huq, Unchecked and Unbalanced, 174.
70. Schwarz and Huq, Unchecked and Unbalanced, 72; cf. Sloane, “The Scope of Executive Power in the Twenty-First Century,” 347.
71. Cf. the investigative journalist and media critic Philip Weiss, “When Black Becomes White,” in Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press, ed. Kristina Borjesson (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2002), 186: “The mainstream media’s response [to theories of the Kennedy assassination] has been a dull one—to solemnly and stoically report the government’s assertions, over and over.”
72. Scott, The War Conspiracy, 10, 383, 395.
73. Gabriel Kolko, The Roots of American Foreign Policy (Boston: Beacon Press, 1969), xii–xiii.
74. James Risen and Eric Lichtblau, “Spying Program Snared U.S. Calls,” New York Times, December 21, 2005.
