Not Any Damn Better Than The God Damned Shrub On Many Important Issues!

US to publish torture details, magazine reports -- Canada.com
(President Barack Obama is moving to publish three Bush-era memos that detail interrogation methods used on top Al-Qaeda suspects, U.S. magazine Newsweek reports...)

Obama: No charges against CIA for interrogations -- Reuters

No CIA charges over waterboarding -- aljazeera.net -- United Press International -- The Associated Press

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Comment by Bruce Fein, President, The Lichfield Group:

Obama echoes Bush-Cheney – 2 hours ago

President Obama has embraced the national security psychology of the Bush-Cheney duumvirate not only in matters of secrecy, but the entire range of civil liberties abuses justified by a purported global and endless war against international terrorism. Indeed, Obama has invoked state secrets in litigation to conceal torture, extraordinary rendition, illegal surveillance, or arbitrary detentions that have given rise to private damages litigation against former government officials. He has claimed that Bagram prison in Afghanistan is a sanctuary for United States lawlessness. He has asserted that the entire world is a battlefield against terrorism; thus, drones can be fired without a judicial warrant to kill persons suspected of Al Qaeda membership on the President's say-so alone. Like President Bush, he has issued a presidential signing statement claiming plenary power over the use of the American military. He has claimed authority to detain United States citizens as "enemy combatants" indefinitely without accusation or trial. In sum, on national security and the war on terrorism, Obama has shown that the more things change, the more they stay the same, despite his adept semantical juggleries.

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