American Progress is slated to operate with a $10 million budget next year, raised from big donors like the financier George Soros.
* Morton H. Halperin, senior vice president of the Center for American Progress. Halperin is also George Soro's, Director Open Society Institute and Open Society Policy Center [1] (http://www.opensocietypolicycenter.org/html/staff.html)
February 2, 2006
Center for American Progress Releases Report on Domestic Surveillance
Earlier today, the Center for American Progress released, "NSA Domestic Warrantless Wiretapping and the 'Trust Me' President," a report by Senior Fellow Mark Agrast and Associate Director Ken Gude examining the domestic surveillance program. It argues that "[t]he administration’s campaign to defend the illegal spying program is nothing more than a smokescreen to cover up its failure to make real progress in protecting us from terrorists."