A former federal prosecutor, ELIZABETH DE LA VEGA was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Minneapolis as well as a member of the Organized Crime Strike Force and Branch Chief in San Jose, California. Since her retirement in 2004, she has been a regular contributor to the website Tomdispatch and is the author of United States v. George W. Bush et al.. Her articles have also appeared in the Nation, the Los Angeles Times, Salon, and Mother Jones.
