The Dark Side of Obama’s Administration

I've been pumped about Obama for some time now. Watching what he has achieved since taking office and learning the plans he has laid out for the future has been inspiring. But there's a darker side to his presidency that isn't getting the attention it deserves. Even if the mainstream media isn't telling us about it, at least Glenn Greenwald is on top of it. In short, in a lawsuit against the government, begun under Bush, the Obama DOJ is taking up the extreme position established in the Bush administration that the president has broad powers under Article II of the Constitution. Specifically, in this case, the DOJ
...is literally arguing that no court has the power to order that classified documents be used in a judicial proceeding; instead, it is the President -- and the President alone -- who possesses that decision-making power under Article II, and no court order is binding on the President to the extent it purports to direct that such information be made available for use in a judicial proceeding.
This should not be taken lightly. Reversing the failed policies of the Bush administration is great, but continuing down the path of the imperial presidency is something that should not be tolerated. Some of the liberalati would like to give Obama the benefit of the doubt. What they need to understand is that if it was wrong for Bush to do this, it's equally wrong for Obama to do so.
  1. Mar 4th, 2009 at 05:31 | #1

    I agree.

    And, is Habeus Corpus back ‘in the house’? If not, why not?

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