Bush's legal legacy to give Obama tough choices
WASHINGTON -- When Barack Obama becomes president in January, he will confront the controversial legal legacy of the Bush administration.
From expansive executive privilege to hard-line tactics in the war on terrorism, Obama must decide what he'll undo and what he'll embrace.
The stakes couldn't be higher.
On one hand, civil libertarians and other critics of the Bush administration may feel betrayed if Obama doesn't move ...
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The Bush administration is the most secretive in history. What we know about the debris they’ve left us is formidable enough. It’s what we don’t know–what they have hidden–that is downright scary. For instance, it’s quite plausible the credit crisis was to have happened after the election, not several weeks before it.