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Bush-era deja vu
Published: 13 August, 2010, 02:18
Edited: 14 August, 2010, 11:09
TAGS: Obama, Politics, Human rights, USA
U.S. President Obama is accused of continuing the Bush-era torture policies, in a new report by the American Civil Liberties Union.
The report evaluates the White House's record in terms of transparency and accountability for the last 18 months since Obama took office.
Michael Macleod-Ball, ACLU Chief legislative and policy counsel, says the president has been inconsistent in delivering on his election campaign pledges.
“President Obama came into office with promise of great hope and in fact in his early days he took very important steps to try to turn back the tide of the aggregation of the executive branch authority of the Bush administration,” Macleod-Ball acknowledged.
“The executive order banning torture was an important step in the right direction, but at the same time, subsequently the administration took no steps to try to hold those in the Bush administration accountable for the actions that generated the torture in the first place. And so what we see throughout this administration are series of positive steps but they are not quite achieving the result that was promised during the election.”
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Obama is a figure-head at best, and an actor at worst. It should be clear to all who care to look hard enough that the last few US presidents have not been calling all the shots (litereally in the case of support for wars). There does appear to be an unelected and unaccountable 'block' of individuals and groups who have significant control / influence over US domestic and foreign policy. The harder someone cares to look at what the President actually says and does, the clearer it becomes that someone else is pulling at least some, if not all, of the strings.
I agree, Zak - President Obama is not as powerful as people hoped. If he is not careful, he will go the way of Lincoln and Kennedy. The enemies he should fear are not in Congress but in his own administration. A lot of very wicked people are burrowed into the bureaucracy.
"Uncle Tom" Obama is the leader of one of the world's greatest torture states. Uncle Obama is only a puppet of the ruling super rich elite. If he ever gets out of line they can dispense with him like the did the Kennedy's, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and all the others.