Meet the 2008 Presidential Candidates: Senator Christopher J. Dodd
Join Presidential Candidate Chris Dodd as he discusses his current battle to stop the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) from granting immunity to telecom companies that broke the law and gave away the private information of countless law-abiding Americans.
Only Chris Dodd has made restoring the Constitution and the rule of law a centerpiece in his campaign for the presidency. A five-term Senator from Connecticut and Chair of the Senate Banking Committee, Dodd has spent a lifetime turning Democratic principles into national policies that keep America secure and prosperous- World Affairs Council
Bio
Senator Christopher J. Dodd
Christopher John Dodd (born May 27, 1944) is an American lawyer and politician from Willimantic, Connecticut. He is a member of the Democratic Party, served as U.S. Representative from Connecticut, and is currently a U.S. Senator from Connecticut. He has been the state's senior Senator since 1989 and is a candidate for the 2008 presidential election.
Markos Kounalakis
Markos Kounalakis is a print and network broadcast journalist and author who has covered wars and revolutions, both civil and technological. He worked as the NBC Radio and Mutual News Moscow correspondent and covered the fall of the Soviet Union as well as the war in Afghanistan.
He reported the overthrow of communism for Newsweek in East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Bulgaria and the rise of both democratic institutions in Hungary and of ethnic strife in Yugoslavia. He was based in Rome and Vienna and later ran the magazine's Prague satellite bureau for over a year.