Today's
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/05/16/obama/index.html">blog entry:
Since that first week, Obama has engaged in one action after the next to preserve many of the key prongs, and the essential architecture, of the Bush/Cheney abuses of executive power and civil liberties. That's just factually true.
It's also factually true that
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE53H1Y020090418">defending torturers is breaking the law.
And FWIW, he also does essentially "defend" torture when he claims the right to "ban" (so logically, the right to "unban") the practice -- when he treats such war criminality as a "policy" question.
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