Saturday, March 16, 2013

Obama, Civil Liberties, And The Presidency

Gene Healy has been one of the more prominent and consistent critics of presidential power going back to the Clinton administration. (Disclosure: Healy is a friend and a former colleague.) In 2000 Healy, vice president of the libertarian Cato Institute, authored the study "Arrogance of Power Reborn: The Imperial Presidency and Foreign Policy in the Clinton Years." In 2006, Healy and fellow Cato scholar Tim Lynch set their sights on President Bush with Power Surge: The Constitutional Record of George W. Bush.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/15/obama-civil-liberties-and_n_2885529.html?utm_hp_ref=the-agitator

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