solarbird | Rare press coverage of Bush administration lawlessness, as policy, in some depth

This American Life is talking about the Bush Administration's "unitary executive" authoritarian theories and policies, including the unilateral discarding of long-established treaties, ignoring and overriding of law, and so on. They're intentionally and specifically ignoring the big issues (tho' to their credit, they specifically, if briefly, talk about how the administration decided torture was okay, law be damned), showing instead how far down this hideousness goes. The first segment was about a 100-year-old international boundary clearing commission, and the raw politicisation and firing of the American half of the commission because they refused to bow to Mr. Bush and insisted upon actually engaging in their jobs.

The podcast is here, or will be in short order - once it finishes airing. If you're on Alaska or Hawai'i time, or if your NPR station delays broadcast, you could still catch it over the air.