How's that hopey changey working out for you?
http://correspondents.theatlantic.com/wendy_kaminer/2010/02/the_civil_libertarians_lament.php
Civil libertarians have good reason to feel betrayed by President Obama's embrace of Bush/Cheney national security policies (including his invocation of a state secrets privilege and continuing reliance on military commissions), but we can't claim not to have been warned. In July 2008, candidate Obama reversed himself and voted for amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that expanded executive authority to spy on us, without warrants, and retroactively immunized the telecoms for enabling the Bush administration's illegal, warrant-less surveillance program. Obama's previously explicit opposition to immunizing the telecoms (and shutting down lawsuits that promised to expose the scope of the administration's lawlessness) inconvenienced his presidential campaign. (Not surprisingly, Glenn Greenwald chronicled the sorry saga here.)
http://correspondents.theatlantic.com/wendy_kaminer/2010/02/the_civil_libertarians_lament.php
Civil libertarians have good reason to feel betrayed by President Obama's embrace of Bush/Cheney national security policies (including his invocation of a state secrets privilege and continuing reliance on military commissions), but we can't claim not to have been warned. In July 2008, candidate Obama reversed himself and voted for amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that expanded executive authority to spy on us, without warrants, and retroactively immunized the telecoms for enabling the Bush administration's illegal, warrant-less surveillance program. Obama's previously explicit opposition to immunizing the telecoms (and shutting down lawsuits that promised to expose the scope of the administration's lawlessness) inconvenienced his presidential campaign. (Not surprisingly, Glenn Greenwald chronicled the sorry saga here.)
