I ran into this on HuffPo this morning with their typical baiting headline:
John Cusack: Obama Has 'Gutted' The Constitution
So I read the whole thing. It's a very good, very lengthy discussion between John Cusack, famous actor, fairly intellectual guy and Jonathan Turley, constitutional scholar and fairly intellectual guy. They make some pretty good points about our President, our former president and why we should be scared for our future from a civil liberties standpoint.
Or to quote the article:
Now that the Republican primary circus is over, I started to think about what it would mean to vote for Obama...Since mostly we hear from the daily hypocrisies of Mitt and friends, I thought we should examine "our guy" on a few issues with a bit more scrutiny than we hear from the "progressive left", which seems to be little or none at all.
TL;DR: Obama used Bush's nebulous, undefined policies on torture and the kill/capture of Americans on foreign soil, defined it and made it far worse and an even more unconstitutional expansion of Executive powers. He also didn't prosecute war crimes to be able to use said policies, against international treaties that we, the US, defined in the first place.A little more beneath the Orange Squiggle of Justice