re: #328 goddamnedfrank

How much fucking grief did the Bush administration take over trying to sidestep the FISA courts on phone taps, and here I am now, watching people make excuses for and blithely applaud as the Obama administration claims the authority to kill citizens without any judicial involvement or oversight whatsoever.

In my view, the two biggest mistakes of Obama’s first term were 1) not going after the banks aggressively enough, and 2) being nearly useless on the civil liberties issues raised by the response to 9/11.