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Friday, June 19, 2009

Obama Morphs Into Bush

Distressing article from McClatchy and coming out at a distressing time. Its Friday, the usual time for the nasty news dump, when less are paying attention. Not that all that many are paying any attention anyhow.

The article gets into the ways that Obama is starting to follow the legal rules of Bush and one of the uglier aspects is secrecy along with fear inducing warnings.

McClatchy: In stark legal turnaround, Obama now resembles Bush
In courtroom battles and freedom-of-information fights from Washington, D.C., to California, Obama's legal arguments repeatedly mirror Bush's: White House turf is to be protected, secrets must be retained and dire warnings are wielded as weapons.

The Bush White House sought to keep e-mails secret. The Obama White House has followed suit. The Bush White House sought to keep visitor logs secret. The Obama White House, so far, takes the same view.

2 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

This is why we need to challenge all of what BV$H did. Emperors/ Kings/ Presidents never give up power their predecessor accumulate.

Jim Sande said...

This is very troubling. Power is hard to relinquish.