Fight Brews Between Civil Liberties Groups and Obama

It was a blind quote hitting the civil-libertarian solar plexus. Bad enough that, as ProPublica’s Dafna Linzner and The Washington Post’s Peter Finn reported late on Friday afternoon, the Obama administration was readying an executive order for a system for preventive detention in terrorism cases. Full Story »

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by Derek Hawkins - Jul. 1, 2009
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by Manfred Ostrowski - Jul. 2, 2009

In spite of its dramatic headline, the article seems to give a credible and quite fair account of the discussion between civil liberties groups and the Obama administration. Many people probably do not get the information in this breadth elsewhere.

I do not expect that a real "fight" brews, and I take it as a good sign that talks like those described in the article take place in an obviously ... More »

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