Reappraising Obama

‎"Was it all cynical electioneering when President-Elect Obama told the Boston Globe in 2007, with reference to specific executive powers the Bush administration had claimed or exercised, that he rejected 'the view that the President may do whatever he deems necessary to protect national security, and that he may torture people in defiance of congressional enactments;' that the 'detention of American citizens, without access to counsel, fair procedure, or pursuant to judicial authorization, as enemy combatants is unconstitutional,' that '[w]arrantless surveillance of American citizens, in defiance of FISA, is unlawful and unconstitutional'?

The president itemized the specific counts of an indictment, yet in his first four years he utterly failed to take any step whatsoever to hold the Bush administration accountable for any of its crimes, preferring instead to use the vast resources of his Justice Department to actual defend members of the Bush administration on the one hand and vigorously prosecute whistle-blowers on the other."

Will President Obama Restore the Rule of Law During His Second Term?
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