" Secret "sneak and peek" searches
under the Patriot Act.
" Classification of most government
records. A reversal of the idea that government should be transparent, but
people's lives private.
" Legitimization of torture. (Obama
said he made torture illegal -- it already was, even when Bush authorized it.
Those who authorized and carried it out must be indicted and tried. Obama
doesn't want to touch that possibility.)
" Special rendition (outsourcing
torture, which Obama still upholds).
" Establishment of private military
contractors like the mercenaries of Blackwater.
" Assertion of Executive supremacy
through "signing statements."
" Doctrine of "Unitary Executive,"
elevating the Executive Branch above Congress and the Judiciary.
" The 2007 John Warner National
Defense Act, which allows the President to deploy the National Guard of one
state into another state without the permission of either governor.
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