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Foser says, “It's easy to imagine one excuse some journalists will offer for ignoring these matters: The American people just don't care about habeas corpus and wiretapping. They care about ‘likeability’ and whether they'd enjoy having a candidate ‘in their living room’ for the next four years and whether candidates are ‘comfortable in their own skin’. They just don't care about things like the Constitution. That's bunk. Pure bunk, as recent polls demonstrate.”

He cited a poll conducted for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), in which 61 percent of Americans said they think the U.S. government should have to get a warrant before wiretapping conversations between American citizens and people in other countries, and majorities of American voters want the next president to restore habeas corpus, close Guantanamo Bay, not allow the president alone to determine who is an enemy combatant, and end torture as U.S. policy.

“The American people take these things seriously,” he said. “It's time for the journalists who determine what the candidates have to talk about to begin to take them seriously, as well.”

Right. When pigs fly!

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