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Thoughts on Administration Policy, Bob Goodman

Bit by bit, the Bush-Obama police/surveillance state continues to shred our civil liberties and constitutional rights. Some say Obama lacks passion, but he seems to be passionate about some things: Protecting U.S. war criminals and torturers from accountability; denying torture victims their day in court; assassinating or indefinitely imprisoning anyone anywhere, including American citizens, without any due process; zealously suppressing and prosecuting (and in Bradley Manning's case, torturing) whistle-blowers and truthtellers who expose U.S. war crimes and torture; and generally, like Bush, concentrating more and more power in the imperial executive without oversight or transparency. Obama's war on whistleblowers has no parallel in American history -- he has already charged more whistleblowers with violating the Espionage Act (which carries the death penalty) than all previous administrations combined -- Dick Nixon looks like a piker by comparison. Meanwhile, the bipartisan post-9/11 police/surveillance state is on the verge of completely eliminating what little privacy we have left.

You probably won't want to read all these articles. But just perusing the titles will give you a good idea where we're headed.

Nat Hentoff, "Obama's NSA: Close to Knowing All About Us": http://www.wnd.com/2012/04/obamas-nsa-close-to-knowing-all-about-us/   Bill Quigley, "How Does Our Government Surveil Us? Let's Count the Ways": http://truth-out.org/news/item/8429-thirteen-ways-government-tracks-us