Jonathan Turley’s recent column in the Washington Post and Matt Taibbi’s recent piece for Rolling Stone are pretty much on point, here.
Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, has been similarly clear, observing that “President Obama will go down in history as the president who enshrined indefinite detention without trial in US law.”
All of the Democrats who spent Bush’s two terms in histrionics over Bush/Cheney’s assault on the rule of law and destruction of civil liberties apparently owe our 43rd president an apology for repeatedly comparing him to Hitler (as they are now — stupefyingly, and without explanation — rallying around his successor, President Obama, perhaps the all-time champion of the 1% and America’s greatest defender of torture and lawless authoritarianism… with the superior style and acceptable brand).