Posted on 04/23/2012 9:52:22 AM PDT by Nachum
The Obama administrations use of executive power has gone further than the Bush administrations toward diminishing Americans civil liberties, author John Yoo told The Daily Caller.
Somehow the Obama administration has increased the protections for terrorists, while at the same time reducing them for the rest of us law-abiding citizens in the United States, Yoo said after a panel discussion on his new book Taming Globalization at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.
Yoo was deputy assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice during the Bush administration. During his tenure, he authored what came to be derided as the torture memos, which defined what techniques were acceptable to use during interrogations of terrorist suspects.
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We must take our country back. It’s up to the people now and we can no longer rely on the President or our other politicians.
OWS which is Obama’s Brown Shirts are training to take away what rights we have left.
WE should be able to speak without interference and without their instigating violence as they are training to do.
Ya think, MaGee?
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