Byrd does not shrink from speaking the truth to an ever more aggressive and imperial White House. Our sacred traditions of debate, openness, and respect for opposing views are threatened as never before by the arrogance of power. Private agendas proliferate. Compulsive secrecy and the ideology of greed are quietly eroding the very foundations of our republic. I have taken a sacred oath to defend our constitution ‘against all enemies, foreign and domestic’. This book is my effort to do just that.