TIM REDMOND Executive editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Redmond has been tracking Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi’s career for over a decade. He recently wrote the article “Pelosi is not one of us,” in which he stated: “Pelosi is by no means a San Francisco liberal. She’s a Washington insider, a born and bred…

ELIZABETH DE LA VEGA Elizabeth de la Vega served as a federal prosecutor in Minneapolis and San Jose for 20 years. She is author of the new book U.S. v. George W. Bush et. al. She said today: “Over half the people in the United States believe that the president misled the country into a…

Tom Lantos (D-Calif.) is the ranking Democrat on the House International Relations Committee and is reportedly slated to chair the committee in the next Congress. His foreign-policy views are widely deplored by antiwar analysts. For several articles about and by Lantos, see: Peninsula Peace and Justice Center. PAUL GEORGE George is director of the Peninsula…

DANIEL LEVY Lead Israeli drafter of the unofficial Geneva Initiative detailed peace plan and former official Israeli peace negotiator and advisor in the Prime Minister’s Office to the Barak government, Levy is now senior fellow at the New America Foundation and the Century Foundation and directs their respective Middle East and Peace initiatives. His upcoming…

NANCY NAHVI CINDY SHEEHAN Both Nahvi and Sheehan have lost sons in the Iraq War. Following a White House press conference where President Bush announced the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld, they were arrested during a protest organized by the group Gold Star Families for Peace. Nahvi met Sheehan in summer 2005 when Sheehan set up…

ROBERT PARRY Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for the Associated Press and Newsweek and is the founder and editor of ConsortiumNews.com. He has written extensively about Robert Gates. Parry said today: “There have been suspicions that Gates was involved with secret dealings with both Iran and Iraq during the 1980s.…

SPENCER OVERTON A law professor at George Washington University, Overton was a commissioner on the Carter-Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform. Author of the new book Stealing Democracy: The New Politics of Voter Suppression, Overton just wrote the piece “Bush v. Gore II?: Virginia Election Irregularities and Recount Procedures.” More Information WARREN STEWART Stewart is…

SCOTT HORTON Horton is chairman of the International Law Committee at the New York City Bar Association and adjunct professor at the Columbia University Law School. He makes frequent trips to Iraq, working as an attorney representing arrested local-hire reporters of U.S. media. On Oct. 26, Horton was quoted on a news release from the…

WARREN STEWART Stewart is the policy director of VoteTrustUSA.org and will be available for interviews in New York. More Information JUSTIN LEVITT Levitt is associate counsel with the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. More Information DEBORAH NARRIGAN JOE IRRERA Narrigan works in Tennessee with Gathering to Save…

DAVID HELVARG Helvarg is president of the Blue Frontier Campaign and author of the book Fifty Ways to Save the Ocean. He said today: “The new study in Science magazine that asserts we could run out of edible fish in the world’s ocean by 2048 is based on our continuing business as usual. But there…