Obama Challenges Terrorism Critics

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/08/us/politics/08terror.html?scp=1&sq=White%20House%20challenges%20terror%20critics&st=cse

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From: barry levine 
Date: Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:26 AM
Subject: re: Obama Challenges Terrorism Critics
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

    Dissatisfaction is growing in the country, and it is not solely the Right that's unhappy.  The majority of the electorate who voted for change is disappointed that this administration is "not handling any of these cases any different (sic) than the Bush administration handled them".  "State Secrets" is a scant fig-leaf to conceal unconstitutional warrantless wiretaps, torture violated both our statues and our treaty obligations and detention "for the duration of hostilities" in a conflict that no one has the authority to end is an abomination.  We voted for a president who would "take care that the Laws be faithfully executed". To continue the Bush administration's evasion of the Law may appeal across the aisle, but it has alienated president Obama's own base.

Barry Levine