Establishment View of Obama's Civil Liberties Record
One of the most cherished weapons for dismissing political arguments
without having to engage them is to claim they come from "the Far Left"
or are confined to "liberal ideologues." For years, that was what was
said about withdrawing from Iraq even as majorities of Americans supported that position, and it is how the political and media establishment now demonize the call for investigations into Bush/Cheney crimes, despite https://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/20/prosecu