Charlie Savage on Obama’s civil liberties record (Glenn Greenwald)

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Charlie Savage on Obama’s civil liberties record
(updated w/transcript)
Glenn Greenwald

Back in February, The New York Times’ Charlie Savage — who won the Pulitzer Prize for exposing Bush’s use of signing statements to break the law — wrote an article reporting that, after a first-week Executive Order from Obama banning torture, “the Obama administration is quietly signaling continued support for other major elements of its predecessor’s approach to fighting Al Qaeda,” which is “prompting growing worry among civil liberties groups and a sense of vindication among supporters of Bush-era policies.” About Savage’s February article, I wrote:

While believing that Savage’s article is of great value in sounding the right alarm bells, I think that he paints a slightly more pessimistic picture on the civil liberties front than is warranted by the evidence thus far (though only slightly).

In retrospect, Savage was right and I was wrong about that: his February article was far more prescient than premature.

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Charlie Savage on Obama’s civil liberties record (Glenn Greenwald)

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