Obama and habeas corpus -- then and now

“Though he has made many promises regarding the need for our country to rejoin the world community of nations, by filing this appeal, President Obama has taken on the defense of one of the Bush administration’s unlawful policies founded on nothing more than the idea that might makes right,” she said. Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - Apr. 12, 2009

Greenwald investigates and takes the facts wherever they lead. Here they lead to the conclusion that Obama is acting to give himself police state powers around the world that are more extreme than Bush tried to claim.

I feel like I have been conned by Obama false posing as an advocate for the rule of law and the constitution. It is time for serious bottom-up democracy. Or is he opposed to that now too?

I’m not searching for ways to criticize Obama. I wish I could be writing paeans celebrating the restoration of the Constitution and the rule of law. But these ... More »

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