Comments on: Where Does Obama Stand on Civil Liberties? http://www.thepolitic.com/archives/2009/10/23/where-does-obama-stand-on-civil-liberties/ Conservative group weblog that publishes daily commentary on political events and topics affecting Canada, the United States and the world. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:41:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Christopher Northcott http://www.thepolitic.com/archives/2009/10/23/where-does-obama-stand-on-civil-liberties/comment-page-1/#comment-213720 Christopher Northcott Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:20:10 +0000 http://www.thepolitic.com/?p=6605#comment-213720 Surveillance of law abiding citizens is disconcerting. No doubt. But citizens are necessarily subjects, subjects of the power of the state over their lives. That is why having robust institutions to check and balance the use of that power, be it Parliament, in this country, or congressional oversight of executive authority in the US, is so crucial. That being said, lack lustre leadership in Parliament and the US Congress is a significant problem. Much of the criticism of the Bush administration, for instance, either forgets the extent to which Congress co-operated with the administration right from the start or the capacity of Congressional leadership to compete with an old hand like Dick Cheney when it came to political hardball. History will record what transpired, which explains why Cheney is hastily writing his version of events. :-) http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21487.html Thanks for the heads up on The L. of O.G.. Surveillance of law abiding citizens is disconcerting. No doubt. But citizens are necessarily subjects, subjects of the power of the state over their lives. That is why having robust institutions to check and balance the use of that power, be it Parliament, in this country, or congressional oversight of executive authority in the US, is so crucial.

That being said, lack lustre leadership in Parliament and the US Congress is a significant problem. Much of the criticism of the Bush administration, for instance, either forgets the extent to which Congress co-operated with the administration right from the start or the capacity of Congressional leadership to compete with an old hand like Dick Cheney when it came to political hardball.

History will record what transpired, which explains why Cheney is hastily writing his version of events. :-)

http://www.politico.com/news/s.....21487.html

Thanks for the heads up on The L. of O.G..

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