The Civil Libertarian Backlash Against Obama 2012 Begins
The Civil Libertarian Backlash Against Obama 2012 Begins
A prominent law professor writes that his election may prove “one of the single most devastating events” in the effort to reverse post-9/11 excesses.
Just weeks after the ACLU released its scathing indictment of the Obama Administration’s failures on civil liberties, law professor Jonathan Turley has become one of the most prominent individual civil libertarians in America to attack President Obama’s record as he seeks reelection. The list of transgressions he lists in a Los Angeles Times op-ed is familiar to regular readers of this space: “He continued warrantless surveillance and military tribunals that denied defendants basic rights,” Turley writes. “He asserted the right to kill U.S. citizens he views as terrorists. His administration has fought to block dozens of public-interest lawsuits challenging privacy violations and presidential abuses.”
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An ACLU report release to coincide with the 10th anniversary of 9/11 warns that a decade after the attacks, the United States is at risk of enshrining a permanent state of emergency in which core values must be subordinated to ever-expanding claims of national security. (More on Civil Liberties After 9/11).
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