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Secretary donald rumsfeld was using an auto pen, using a machine or stamp or something, using some sort of machine to automatically sign the more than 1,000 condolence letters that the bush administration had had to send to families of soldiers who had been killed in iraq. they were machine signed, form letters. the pentagon initially denied it and then they repeatedly denied it, but david hackworth turns out had him dead to rights. he had great sources. he had interviews with a dozen family members who were next of kin to u.s. soldiers who had been killed in action in iraq. he found two penta...

Magazine and he started to write a syndicated column for king features. in november 2004, a year and a half into the iraq war, david hackworth in one of his syndicated columns, he broke the news that donald rumsfeld was using an auto pen, a machine or stamp to automatically sign more than 1,000 condolence letters that the bush administration had to send to families of soldiers who had been killed in iraq. they were machine signed, form letters. pentagon initially denied it and then they repeatedly denied it, but david hackworth turns out had him dead to right. he had great sources. he had inte...

Popular myths about what must affect members of congress. you're basically saying, listen, form letters, don't bother, online petitions, nice but it's not the thing that makes a difference to the member of congress on the ground. is that fair to say? >> that's absolutely right. the tea party really understood a couple things about how their members of congress thought. one, they understood that their members of congress cared about them, their constituents, and not other people and, two, they understood that they weren't setting the agenda for the next eight years, the democrats controlled the...

Against trump. secret facebook groups or their mailing lists and trying to figure out what can we do to make sure congress doesn't enact trump's agenda. they knew about petitions and calling their members of congress but they didn't know what the next step was beyond that. as a former congressional staffer, i have basically no skills but i do know how congress works and i and a lot of other congressional staffers got together and said, look, we know what works, we saw the tea party rise up, we saw them implement really effective strategies and tactics to prevent an incredibly popular president...

Affect members of congress. you're basically saying, listen, form letters, don't bother, online petitions, nice but it's not the thing that makes a difference to the member of congress on the ground. is that fair to say? >> that's absolutely right. the tea party really understood a couple things about how their members of congress thought. one, they understood that their members of congress cared about them, their constituents, and not other people and, two, they understood that they weren't setting the agenda for the next eight years, the democrats controlled the house, they controlled the se...