Obama’s Civil Liberties Betrayals Pile Up

In the flurry of the last several days we now know Obama is planning to maintain indefinite detention powers, even going further than Bush was willing to do openly. He is also perpetuating a slightly tweaked version of the Bush military commissions and is being harshly criticized by a U.S. district judge over his broad use of “state secrets” to prevent alleged victims of the government’s warrantless spying program to see relevant evidence.