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Originally Posted by Undertoad
Obama continued the Bush policies on FISA immunity and rendition secrets. Creeping fascism? Disregard of rule of law? Or an attempt to keep the country safe by using all available tools to do so? I don't know, let's just prosecute and figure that out during trials. Is that what you want?
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BTW....Bush used the AUMF to authorize the NSA to bypass the FISA courts or perhaps you forgot that little fact.
Obama has put in an multi-agency oversight panel for rendition....providing at least some level of accountable to the law.
What I want is not to allow Obama or any future president to use the ihghly questionable Bush policies and practices to put "protecting" America over the rule of law.