When he was running for president, Barack Obama criticized
George W. Bush’s expansive vision of executive power, saying, “I
reject the view that the president may do whatever he deems
necessary to protect national security.” The day after taking
office in 2009, Obama declared that “my Administration is committed
to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government.”
Those two positions went together, because secrecy requires power and power thrives in secrecy, as Obama himself has been demonstrating for the last four years. Three recent cases illustrate how breaking his promise of “the most transparent administration in history” has helped Obama break his promise not to use national security as an excuse to violate civil liberties.
http://reason.com/archives/2013/06/03/obamas-cloak-of-invisibility
Those two positions went together, because secrecy requires power and power thrives in secrecy, as Obama himself has been demonstrating for the last four years. Three recent cases illustrate how breaking his promise of “the most transparent administration in history” has helped Obama break his promise not to use national security as an excuse to violate civil liberties.
http://reason.com/archives/2013/06/03/obamas-cloak-of-invisibility
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