Interviews - Amanda Terkel - Center for American Progress - September 13, 2006

     Amanda Terkel is a Research Associate at the Center for American Progress, contributing to The Progress Report and ThinkProgress.org. Amanda was formerly the Center’s Special Assistant for Strategic Planning. Her past positions have been with the Office of Sen. Charles E. Schumer, New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, the 2004 presidential campaign of Sen. Joseph Lieberman, and the Office of the Inspector General in the Office of Personnel Management. She graduated from Colgate University with a degree in political science.

     She discusses the war on terror, how 9/11 has been used by politicians for their own benefit, and links in the media between Saddam Hussein and 9/11, as well as several other related topics.