By Mark LeVine
President Obama has essentially continued almost every major Bush security policy, either by default or design. State secrets, targeted killings, renditions and indefinite detention, opposing the right of habeas corpus, preventing victims of admitted torture from seeking judicial redress, expanding the Afghan war.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26469.htm
Obama, Bush, and the Judicious Use of Hellfire Missiles
Much has changed since the Bush administration left office. Two years ago, the CIA was worrying about legal issues surrounding the killing of Americans at an alleged terrorist training camp in Pakistan. Now the Obama administration has apparently put American citizens on a "targeted killing" list.
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/09/anwar-al-awlaki-and-dead-americans-pakistan
From Information Clearing House
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Government accusations: No evidence needed
Salon
by Glenn Greenwald
11/01/10
[W]ithin a very short time of the attempted attack?s becoming public, U.S. government officials fanned out to anonymously pin the blame on Anwar Awlaki as the Mastermind, and newspapers then dutifully printed what they were told, even though nobody had any idea whether that was actually true. But when you?re trying to justify the presidential seizure of the power to assassinate your own citizens without a shred of due process, what matters is ratcheting up fear and hatred levels against your targets, not evidence or rationality. Just scream TERRORIST! enough times and maybe everyone will forget how tyrannical is your conduct...
http://tinyurl.com/34xj2er
Is your preacher next on the presidential death list?
Liberty For All
by George Phillies
01/17/11
Do you truly believe a President can stop with just one? Last year the Obama Administration took a step without historical precedent. It ordered the assassination of an American citizen. The citizen is Anwar al-Awlaki, described by the New York Times as 'an eloquent Muslim cleric'...
http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=5421
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=tyrann
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Awlaki
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Central+Intelligence+Agency
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=habeas+corpus
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=state+secrets
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=target+killing
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=assassin
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=torture
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=rendition
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=indefinite+detention
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mark+LeVine
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=George+Phillies
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